For those who need help coping with the pandemic, or applying for food stamps, or finding a mental health professional, or handling any life crisis, really, the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor has a valuable new resource.

Alanah Johnson, Tiffany Gilliam, Sharon Gilliam, and Betty Gilliam are all graduates of the Bridgehampton School. They can share stories of cheerleading for the Killer Bees at different points in history, and now they have a new story to tell in a history-making election year.

Since March, when fear of Covid-19 drove many second-home owners into town prematurely, and many of them permanently, the East Hampton Recycling Center has absorbed a vast surge in recyclable and non-recyclable materials.

Since Saturday, when New York State's early voting period began, hundreds of voters have been lining up daily to cast their ballots at the East Hampton polling site at Windmill Village on Accabonac Road, and the Stony Brook University Southampton campus, the only two sites for early voting on the South Fork.

An Oct. 18 accident at the Clam Bar on Napeague ended in charges of drunken driving for a New York City man.

Last week's Star had an account of an East Hampton woman who witnessed a man removing two signs from in front of her Town Lane house on Oct. 16. The man has since been arrested and charged with petty larceny, a misdemeanor. He is Salvatore Ditroia, 67, of Southampton.

Caring Professionals
Montauk
October 26, 2020

To The Star,

I am writing to express my deep gratitude for the extraordinary work of our East Hampton Town fire marshal’s office.

In this Covid crisis, operating our restaurant, Anthony’s Pancake House in Montauk, created new challenges, including applying for an outside seating permit.

Bridgehampton School District officials on Tuesday closed the school midday after a parent reported early in the day that their child had tested positive for Covid-19. Ten adults and 10 students will have to quarantine.

"Bonac Blind," a temporary art installation in Accabonac Harbor by Scott Bluedorn that was featured in The Star's Oct. 15 issue, was vandalized multiple times last week. 

A new state law affecting all car and truck passengers ages 16 and over will go into effect on Sunday. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation in August instituting this new rule, which applies even if someone is sitting in the back seat. Formerly, only front-seat passengers were required to buckle up.

Upcoming events at Temple Adas Israel and John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor.

A single-vehicle crash Saturday night at the southbound curve of Hampton and Division Streets in Sag Harbor sent the driver and a passenger to the hospital with injuries, and left a house at the crash site with a shocked resident and damage to its second floor.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of voters lined up and cast ballots on Saturday and Sunday on the South Fork as New York State's early voting period opened up.

"This case is not being handled any differently than any other case," Justice Tekulsky told David Peralta's supporters, some of whom have expressed confusion over the court process. Mr. Peralta is the victim of an alleged road rage attack in August.

Every major bay and estuary on Long Island was afflicted this summer by toxic algae blooms, oxygen-starved waters, or fish kills, all caused primarily by high levels of nitrogen from household sewage, according to a recent water quality report by Stony Brook University scientists.

On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., local authorities will take part in National Drug Take Back Day, collecting expired and unused medication for safe disposal.

A plan to remove and relocate Little League fields from Pantigo Place in East Hampton to the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons property on Stephen Hand's Path in Wainscott took a step forward on Tuesday, with a majority of the town board agreeing on a plan to construct two state-of-the-art baseball fields with synthetic turf and multiple amenities at the site.

The distribution of money that the developers of the South Fork Wind farm will allocate to East Hampton Town in exchange for easements allowing the landing of the installation's export cable was the subject of a long discussion by the town trustees on Friday, with several of them expressing acute disappointment with their counterparts on the town board.

Polling stations during the early voting period and on Election Day will be populated only by staff, poll inspectors, and, of course, voters, an official at the Suffolk Board of Elections said this week. "You cannot interfere" with voting, a Suffolk County Board of Elections official said, and the county will "have police cars with a bipartisan team of board of elections employees in every town if there's a problem."

Suffolk County completed a dredging of Accabonac Harbor near Louse Point in Springs early this week, removing a spit of beach that had narrowed a channel and made it difficult for boats to navigate through the water, according to Francis Bock and Susan McGraw Keber of the town trustees.