Katy Stewart, the late daughter of Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart, was remembered Saturday at an all-day fund-raiser at the Buckskill Winter Club that included an evening ice show and a youth hockey game.
Katy Stewart, the late daughter of Brigid Collins and Jim Stewart, was remembered Saturday at an all-day fund-raiser at the Buckskill Winter Club that included an evening ice show and a youth hockey game.
As of Monday, Cole Brauer, the 29-year-old sailor who graduated from East Hampton High School in 2012, was within 2,000 miles of finishing the Global Solo Challenge singlehanded race around the world’s three great capes and heading for the Azores.
“Teaching people to tap into that strength they have inside is our special sauce,” Sinead FitzGibbon said at her and George Wilson’s Latitude Physical Therapy studio on Sag Harbor’s Bay Street the other day.
A hundred years ago, a rumrunning raid was successfully executed at Fort Pond Bay, where dozens of bootleggers were caught moving cases of booze by the score. And other trips deep into the past.
Frank R. Sofo of Springs, a prolific painter and illustrator who was active in the South Fork’s arts community for many years, died on Jan. 16 at Stony Brook University Hospital. The cause was complications of inflammatory vasculitis. He was 80.
Barbara B. Clarke, an all-around horsewoman and lifelong teacher of “the art and skills of horsemanship,” died at home in Bridgehampton on Feb. 15, a day after her 83rd birthday.
Marshall (Gene) Roarick of East Hampton, an outdoorsman, woodworker, business manager, and Air Force veteran, died at home on Jan. 27 at the age of 92.
Martha M. Whelan Robinson, who grew up in East Hampton, died at home in Connersville, Ind., on Feb. 7. She was 65 and had been ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, for seven years. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
La furgoneta de mamografía móvil de Stony Brook Medicine, equipado con una sala de examen y vestidor privado, llegará al Departamento de Bomberos de Montauk el jueves 11 de abril de 10 a.m. a 3 p.m.
Stony Brook Medicine's mobile mammography van, equipped with an exam room and private dressing room, is coming to the Montauk Fire Department on Thursday, April 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Due to the demand for mammograms, these mobile appointments must be booked well in advance.
More than 60 years in the making, the Fire Island to Montauk Point beach reformulation project will have arrived and departed from Montauk’s downtown in barely the blink of an eye. The beach-infill component of the project began on Feb. 6 and was completed on Sunday, with around 475,000 cubic yards of sand pumped from an offshore site by a 480-foot suction-hopper dredge called the Ellis Island.
More than 60 years in the making, the Fire Island to Montauk Point beach reformulation project will have arrived and departed from Montauk’s downtown in barely the blink of an eye. The beach-infill component of the project began on Feb. 6 and was completed on Sunday, with around 475,000 cubic yards of sand pumped from an offshore site by a 480-foot suction-hopper dredge called the Ellis Island.
Last week, two large American elm trees, estimated to be between 80 and 100 years old, were cut down at the intersection of Main Street and Newtown Lane: one in front of Louis Vuitton, and the other in front of J. Crew. Neither had Dutch elm disease, according to Olivia Brooks, the chairwoman of the 25-person Ladies Village Improvement Society tree committee since 2008, but both had simply reached the end of their long lives.
The curtain rises Friday on East Hampton’s production of the classic musical comedy “Anything Goes,” starring some veteran East Hampton theater performers as well as some fresh, new faces.
Things are looking up for the Wainscott School District, which at this time last year was confronting a budget deficit of close to $1 million and floating an over-the-tax-cap spending plan for the 2023-24 school year. Board members and administrators said this week they may not need to pierce the cap this year.
Odds are, you’re not going to see an American bittern, despite its large size. Frankly, the American bittern doesn’t want to be seen; it chose invisibility as its superpower. Still, this is the best time of year to try; make the experience at least as much about the journey as the destination.
With over 400 blood samples collected from Lyme-infected East Enders since 2014, Dr. George Dempsey of East Hampton Family Medicine is the largest contributor to the Bay Area Lyme Foundation Lyme Disease Biobank, and his samples have helped improve the test that can detect it. The new test could catch it even sooner.
Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District came out swinging at a prospective opponent in his first re-election bid in November, referring to the former CNN anchor John Avlon as “a Manhattan elitist attempting to parachute into Suffolk County to try to buy a congressional seat.”
Un padre de cinco hijos que llegó a Estados Unidos desde Guatemala en 2010 para encontrar trabajo de carpintería y mantener a su familia, el Sr. Teo Gómez murió tras ser atropellado por un coche en County Road 39 el 30 de diciembre. Tenia 48 años. Para honrar su memoria, Hamptons Community Outreach (H.C.O.), una organización sin fines de lucro, anunció el 10 de febrero que está estableciendo un programa de capacitación laboral para personas en circunstancias como las que enfrentó el Sr. Teo Gómez.
It took six public hearings, and nearly a seventh, but the Sag Harbor Village Board finally passed a tree preservation law at its Feb. 13 meeting. Property owners who want to remove a tree with a diameter at breast height of 12 inches or more must now first obtain a permit from the Building Department.
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