More ripped from our voluminous pages.
A sixth grader in the Sag Harbor School District died Wednesday in a rafting accident on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania while on the annual class trip to the Poconos. The tragedy was confirmed by Jeff Nichols, the district superintendent, just before 11 p.m.
Now that Memorial Day weekend is in the rearview mirror, parking aggravation takes up more and more brain space. If any reader doubts that our streets and infrastructure are at max capacity, just consider how frequently parking news made headlines this spring.
For New York State residents, registering to vote — or changing one’s voting location — is among the easier tasks involving officialdom.
What would anyone want with a ratty old fiberglass dinghy?
I am building a criminal case against our pet housecat.
South Fork Lacrosse was knocked out of the playoffs in round one, losing to William Floyd, 13-7, on May 19 — a tough loss, especially for the team’s seniors, who had hoped to extend their high school careers a little longer.
East Hampton’s underclassmen — and underclasswomen — took the spotlight at the Suffolk freshman-sophomore track meets at Longwood High School on May 18 and 19. Both teams showed off their talented up-and-comers ahead of the county championships this week.
Unsure if it was not in fact a prank, a WLNG D.J. relayed the call that had just come to the Sag Harbor radio station last Thursday: Two baby goats and a pony were missing from their Wainscott home.
There were two outs, two runners on, and Alexa Schaffer was up. Bonac softball’s head coach, Jason Menu, couldn’t have asked for a better scenario for his team, trailing Hauppauge 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh. His players had pulled within one and his best hitter was at the plate. But sometimes stories don’t end the way we wish they would.
After 14 years in her closet, Nicole A. Vanasse’s “Goldi,” a stunning series of 16 batik panels that reimagines the story of Goldilocks, can be seen at the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton.
From fiction involving a woman running her family’s tea house to a memoir of recovering from a brain injury, “Fit Into Me” is nothing if not hybrid.
LongHouse’s Long Island Modern series will feature Alastair Gordon discussing the just-released, revised, and expanded edition of his “Weekend Utopia: Modern Living in the Hamptons.”
The Bridgehampton Museum will open two exhibitions, “What We Carry: Memory and Migration,” an installation of artworks, photographs, and artifacts, and “Uncharted Waters,” paintings by Mark Seidenfeld.
The Leiber Collection will open with three new exhibitions: “Judith and Gerson Leiber: A Passion for Fashion,” “Gerson Leiber: An Inexplicable Light,” and “Garden of Friends: Ode to the Sea.”
The Art Barge on Napeague will open with four months of classes, including watercolor, ceramics, weaving, painting on location, stained glass, paper collage, and many more.
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