Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, an attorney and a founder and the current president of the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, died of esophageal cancer at home in Manhattan last Thursday. He was 80.

A graveside service for Albert A. Zaccaria of Montauk, who died on Saturday at age 93, will take place on Monday at 1:30 p.m. at Calverton National Cemetery.

Barrett Whitman Jr., a retired Grumman aeronautical engineer who lived in Montauk full time since 1988, died at home on Nov. 15. He was 95.

There is one tradition of Thanksgiving that I miss even a decade later. My good friend Wayne Clinch of Montauk used to organize consecutive fishing charters on the Friday and Saturday after Turkey Day.

Kathy Masterson, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, gives a rundown of the fast approaching winter sports season, which looks promising given the turnouts for the high school’s half-dozen teams.

A small army of 30 was working to transform the Buckskill Tennis Club into the Buckskill Winter Club last week, the plan being that a regulation-size ice rink overlying four Har-Tru courts there will be up and running on Thanksgiving Day.

From the inaugural Sea-to-Shore Crossing to the glory days of Southampton College soccer, it happened here.

Reader comment, the Thanksgiving edition.

In a town where just getting a permit to build a deck can take six months or more, taking time to get things right should be seen as just part of the deal.

Here’s what we are most grateful for on Thanksgiving eve, 2024.

At Thanksgiving it seems appropriate to think about eastern Long Island’s very first land flip, which began 383 years ago when the Manhanset Indians were robbed of the place we know today as Shelter Island.

Dinner at Sam’s Bar and Restaurant with both my children followed by a brand-new Ridley Scott movie: Life probably won’t get much better than that.

Coming to you from the D-III national championships in Terre Haute, Indiana . . .

This Friday through Sunday after Thanksgiving, a new chapter of Hamptons Pride history will be written in the East Hampton Presbyterian Church, as quilts from the National AIDS Memorial will be on display.

Some commercial action in Montauk. And other realty tidbits from hereabouts.

The Ladies Village Improvement Society, whose website tagline reads, "Keeping East Hampton beautiful since 1895," will have a new executive director, Rachel Cooper, starting Jan. 1.

Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker, the South Fork Natural History Museum, and the Surfrider Foundation will host a community beach cleanup at Sagg Main Beach at 11:30 a.m. on the day after Thanksgiving.

Everyone knows what a turkey looks like, right? Sure. However, when tasked with illustrating a magazine story about the King family and their poultry farm in Southampton, Kym Fulmer, the Springs artist whose bright-eyed gobblers are on the cover of this edition of East, wanted to make sure she got it exactly right, so she paid a visit to North Sea Farms to look at the birds up close.

From Bob Dylan’s explosion on the scene to the Mayor of MacDougal Street, Dave Van Ronk, this is the way it was in Greenwich Village, a work of music history reviewed by a working musician.

Whiskey Bravo, a youth group that supports active-duty military personnel with service projects, is teaming up with the American Legion Post 419 Auxiliary to collect items for care packages this holiday season.