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Kids Culture 06.02.22

This weekend it's house lights down, stage lights up for the students of South Fork Performing Arts, who will present the plays "Shuddersome: Tales of Poe" and "Peter and the Starcatcher" at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

Pride on Parade Saturday in East Hampton

At least 45 groups are already signed on to march in East Hampton Village's first Pride parade, which will step off from near Guild Hall on Saturday at noon and head down Main Street to Newtown Lane and Herrick Park for a post-parade rally. Organizers are still hoping to add a band to the line-up, and last-minute marchers will be welcomed at a designated location that morning.

Item of the Week: Elizabeth Lockwood’s Ivy Cottage

This photograph taken by Robert Hefner around 1980 shows the residence of Elizabeth Edwards Lockwood (1872-1960) and William A. Lockwood (1874-1966). Built circa 1680, the house is one of the oldest in East Hampton.

Michael Dehn Breault

Michael Dehn Breault, whose business endeavors ranged from insurance to advertising and public relations to being a brand manager for British Airways, died on May 24 in Clarksville, Mo., a few days before his 54th birthday.

Tuition-Free College in New York

Applications are open for New York State's Excelsior Scholarship, through which students from families that earn up to $125,000 in annual, adjusted gross income can attend two or four-year public colleges in the state tuition-free.

Ursula Kalish

Ursula Kalish of Bridgehampton and New York City, who had long careers in art and fitness, died at home in Bridgehampton on May 7. She was 92.

Torin Gleeson

Torin James Gleeson, an East Hampton native, mechanical engineer, and inventor, died early on Saturday in a motorcycle accident in York, N.Y. Mr. Gleeson, who lived in nearby Linwood, in Livingston County in the northwest corner of the state, was 29.

John T. Fix Jr., 92

John T. Fix Jr., a summer resident of Springs who ran his family’s hardware store in Westchester County, died at the Bayberry Care Center in New Rochelle, N.Y., on May 17.

Howard Green, 55

Howard Matthew Green, a handyman, painter, and mechanic who grew up in East Hampton, died of pneumonia and a bacterial infection on April 22 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 55 and had been ill for six weeks.

Frederick C. Mitchell

Frederick C. Mitchell, a Sag Harbor volunteer fireman for nearly 60 years and onetime fire chief, died of congestive heart failure at home on May 13. He was 83.

Sara Carey Matthiessen

Sara Carey Matthiessen, the daughter of the late writers Peter Matthiessen of Sagaponack and Patsy Southgate of Springs, died at home in Northport on May 23 at the age of 67.

For Betty Mazur

A memorial service for Betty Mazur, a former chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee who died last summer, will be held on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the ocean beach between Clinton Academy Lane and Treasure Island Drive in Amagansett.

Constance M. Hoagland

Constance Miller Hoagland, a lifelong resident of East Hampton Village, died on Monday at home on Jericho Road. She was 98. A memorial gathering will be held on the Maidstone golf course this summer at a date to be determined.

Boater Escapes Explosion Off North Haven

A woman thrown overboard when her boat exploded Sunday afternoon in the waters off North Haven survived the incident, though the boat did not, according to the New York State Harbormaster and Bay Constable Association.

On the Police Logs 06.02.22

Someone couldn’t negotiate a turn onto Cedar Street on Friday night and hit the berm, fence, and ultimately the office building at Saskas Surveyor Company. The driver fled, leaving behind parts from a red Ford Mustang.

D.W.I. From Gansett to the Village

East Hampton Village police were notified by town cops on Saturday night about an erratic driver who may have been in an accident in Amagansett, and found the man on Main Street near David’s Lane, driving “recklessly.”

Two Three-Way Accidents

A garbage truck, a plumbing van and a pickup truck one day; a pickup and two S.U.V.'s the next.

A War on Children

Here we are again — after each mass shooting, calls resume for stronger gun-control laws. Yet the killing goes on.

Missing Word

East Hampton Town appears about to have the wool pulled over its eyes again in Montauk.

Padel What?

East Hampton Village residents should wonder why precisely it is that the trustees are eager to install a specialized glass playing enclosure for a sport that no one has heard of.