Free Health Fair Friday

Thu, 10/02/2025 - 13:19

October 2, 2025

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation will hold a free community health fair Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Hoie Hall at St. Luke’s.

Glucose and blood pressure screenings will be available, as will appointments for colorectal screenings and no-cost mammograms and Pap smear tests.

Representatives from health insurance organizations, the town’s Human Services Department, and Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island will be on hand, along with a nutrition educator from Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Villages

The State of the Bays Is Mostly Bad

Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change.

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Call ‘Flesh Eating’ Alarmist

The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.

Apr 30, 2026

Item of the Week: All Aboard the Fishermen’s Special

The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.

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