Judy Sleed of East Hampton, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and host of "The Play Is the Thing," an LTV show, tells her story publicly for the first time in "I Am Judit."
Judy Sleed of East Hampton, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and host of "The Play Is the Thing," an LTV show, tells her story publicly for the first time in "I Am Judit."
Doris Brill Karp, a founding member of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, died in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Oct. 19, three weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
Frederick Notel Sr., a former sergeant with the East Hampton Town Police Department, a carpenter, a Boy Scout leader, and a jack of all trades, died at home in Springs on Friday. He was 92.
Dennis John Bennett, an Air Force veteran and a devoted patron of the East Hampton Library, died on Oct. 25 at San Simeon by the Sound in Greenport. He was 95.
Visiting hours for Evelyn Ludlow Tureski of Bridgehampton, who was 94, will be held on Monday from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton. A funeral will be held on Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.
East Hampton High’s 12 entrants did themselves proud at Saturday’s Suffolk County girls swimming meet, placing 10th among the 24 teams that vied at Stony Brook University. Plus news of Pierson field hockey and boys soccer.
Judy Weaver works with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and would like to do similar work here next summer, under the aegis of the Connected Warriors and Bodymind Recalibration programs she founded.
An East Hampton High scoreboard is dedicated to Brandon Hayes, and a standout Southampton wrestler looks back.
We are always pleased to see women in greater roles in government, and Tuesday night’s results on the East End bode well for where the country may be headed.
Builders seem driven by an investment mind-set, one that dismisses any sense of continuity and community scale in favor of more bedrooms, more square footage, and more amenities. Now a cross-section of East Hampton residents is demanding new limits.
Only about a month remains in the village’s leaf-pickup program, and at this rate there will be nothing much to suck up.
My children definitely don’t feel the sense of excitement we felt as children at the holidays. They’re quite blasé.
L.A. story: eternal gratitude to that West Hollywood art house cinema for an introduction to Krzysztof Kieslowski’s “Dekalog.”
On the Day of the Dead, I think about them, my immediate forebears.
Dr. Robert Marshall’s metaphor of the fractals within a tree is useful in explaining the infinite patterns, and from there it’s a short leap to fractals in the arts.
The poignancy of little kids taking pride in their 1898 classroom’s new flag and clock. A bronze plaque placed on a boulder in Montauk by the American Women’s Voluntary Services on Armistice Day in 1948. This was The Star of yore.
A welcome invitation to check out the trees of LongHouse opens this week’s tranche of letters.
Tuesday night's unofficial results for Suffolk County races show Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine, a Republican from Center Moriches, prevailing in his bid for the county executive's seat, while Ann Welker, a Democrat and a sitting Southampton Town trustee, appears to have won the county legislator race in the second district.
In a big night for East Hampton Town Democrats, Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez was elected supervisor Tuesday and will become the fourth woman to hold that post in the town’s history. With all 19 election districts reporting, the Suffolk County Board of Elections’ unofficial tally had Ms. Burke-Gonzalez and her running mates, Councilman David Lys and Tom Flight, cruising to victory over their Republican opponents.
Faced with the enormous task of helping people understand how to move forward after the Black Saturday attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, South Fork clergy offered a diversity of perspective at Sunday's Rally Israel and Peace at Herrick Park in East Hampton.
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