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Hunger on the Table at Montauk School

The Montauk School District has received community support to tackle student hunger with its “food table,” an idea that originated with its PTA and was so successful the district made it a permanent part of its operating budget.

Springs Notebook: Making Music Every Morning

Have you ever wondered what band and chorus life is like for students in fifth through eighth grade at the Springs School? Here’s a little taste.

Kids Culture for October 3, 2024

Pumpkin-decorating in Sag Harbor, ghost stories in East Hampton — it must be fall.

On the Police Logs 10.03.24

A Sag Harbor woman reported a “rather unpleasant aroma in the air” near Main Street on Saturday. An officer informed her that the smell was likely coming from the nearby sewage plant. The woman disagreed, claiming she is “very experienced in these smells,” and asked the officer to search each garbage can for a dead deer.

On the Water: Hooked on ‘Jaws’

I’ve probably seen “Jaws” a hundred times, including when it made its debut on the big screen at the East Hampton Cinema on June 20, 1975. I know the entire script word for word.

The Sports News Is Still Largely Good

From boys and girls soccer to field hockey to golf and tennis, read all about it.

25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports 10.03.24

A homecoming triumph on the gridiron, and the RECenter opens with a splash.

The Way It Was for October 3, 2024

House fires, bombing zones in Block Island Sound, and virus-killed birds. Here is a trip into the pungent past.

Ward Freese

Ward Freese, a former pilot, aluminum siding installer, and East Hampton Town assessor, died on Aug. 25 at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Fla. He was 94.

Patti Morton

Patti Morton, a 1956 graduate of East Hampton High School, died on Sept. 21 at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt. She was 85.

For Ronald Edwards

A graveside service for Ronald Edwards of East Hampton will take place on Oct. 12 at 11 a.m. at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett.

They Met and Married on the Beach

Emilie Erica Stoll and Jean Carlo Barrientos, who were married on Friday at Navy Beach in Montauk, still remember the exact date they met: July 23, 2014. They had both finished their freshman years at college. They were at the beach. “He was surfing the hurricane swell at Napeague that evening while she was going for a sunset dip,” they wrote. “He came up to her as she was walking back towards the parking lot and asked her name, and the rest is history.”

Winslow and Walker Are Wed

Leland E. Winslow and Chelsea C. Walker were married on Sept. 22, the anniversary of their first date, at East Wind in Wading River.

Another Way to Tackle House Size

Given a chance to make comments on recent legislative suggestions about the zoning code in East Hampton Town, the planning board, at its Sept. 25 meeting, chose to focus instead on a suggestion that wasn’t made: changing the least flashy but perhaps most consequential zoning tool at the town’s disposal, the table of dimensional regulations.

Letters to the Editor for October 3, 2024

Lamenting changes to Sag Harbor, lamenting the housing problem, lamenting the mess that is our politics. Our readers unload.

The Main Street Metric

Judging by the relative calm on Main Street at midweek since Labor Day, East Hampton’s population has returned to the seasonal, weekend-versus-midweek, boom-and-bust pattern of pre-Covid-19 days.

Beyond a Hurricane’s Numbers

Hurricane Helene’s path from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia is a stunning reminder of how little separates much of the United States from massive weather disasters.

Unsung Heroes of the Polls

We salute the people who make the elections run so well in difficult times.

The Mast-Head: Town Pond Mystery

Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of what looked like little tropical fish-tank fish were swimming near the surface.

The Shipwreck Rose: Admissions

Emails from colleges drift in and pile up in my daughter’s email inbox — and my own email inbox — like the falling leaves of the sugar maple and the red oak.