For those interested in learning what home schooling entails, an informational session called Homeschooling 101 will take place at the East Hampton Library on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. 

Amagansett

Someone stole a shopping bag from under a table at Organic Krush on the afternoon of July 3. Nina Beth Roth of Manhattan said she put the bag, with a $500 black cashmere cardigan from Community, in Amagansett Square, inside, under the table while she was having lunch from 1:45 to 2:15 p.m.

East Hampton

Guild Hall’s KidFest summer series of performances and workshops will begin on Wednesday at 5 p.m. when Teatro SEA presents “La Cucarachita Martina,” a bilingual puppet show about a little roach looking for love. Described as a “live-action Latin puppet show rock ’n’ roll musical mash-up,” it is appropriate for children of all ages.

Albert S. Hedges, whose more than 50 years of active service to the Bridgehampton Fire Department also included time as captain and as a Fire District Commissioner, died on June 24 at the Peconic Bay Medical Center’s Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Riverhead, surrounded by family. He was 84 years old and had congestive heart failure.

JoAnn C. Morse of Montauk, a high school special education teacher, died of complications of heart failure last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 81. 

Albert J. Catozzi of East Hampton died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Monday. He was 71. 

Due to the lack of an available venue there will not be a memorial gathering for Hortense Carpentier, who died on June 17. Those who wish to pay their respects have been invited to join the family at a graveside service on Aug. 10 at 11 a.m. at Green River Cemetery.

Tenia Campbell, the Medford mother accused of killing her twin daughters, intentionally suffocated them and drove to Montauk with their bodies in the car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said yesterday at her arraignment on upgraded charges that include first-degree murder.

While the court cases develop, let’s not forget about the emergency personnel who responded to both scenes. The effects of tragedies like these ripple beyond the victims and their families.

Vote suppression and voting roll purges have been a hallmark of the Trump era. The census fight needs to be understood in that context.  

It’s a cliché around here to say, “I’ve never seen so many people in town!” but everyone agrees there really never were so many people in East Hampton than on the July Fourth weekend just past, and the days leading up to it.

Sometime after 10 p.m. on the Fourth of July, the brake lights from stopped cars on Montauk Highway curved west from where we stood on the sidewalk outside Pizza Village. Like thousands of other spectators, we had come to Montauk for the fireworks, and now everyone it seemed wanted to go home.

I had just written about a “rite of summer,” namely the first day of the 2019 junior lifeguarding season, and was inspired, therefore, to take part in another, namely the opening for the season of our outdoor shower.

Despite two failed marriages, I still loved men. The way they smell. The way they see life. The way it feels to kiss them. I knew I couldn’t find myself on a diet of self-help, yoga, and girlfriends, as much as I love those things. The naked truth was that I needed men to get over the men who’d let me down. In fact, I needed a lot of them. 

Rebag, a store that buys and sells used luxury handbags, will open a pop-up shop at the Surf Lodge in Montauk from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. A raffle will be held for a Louis Vuitton bag.

The prices below have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

Marvelous Job
Springs
July 5, 2019

Dear David

East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old all-stars were to have played Longwood Wednesday night in the District 36 final, having edged Moriches Bay 2-1 here at the Pantigo fields in a very tense semifinal Monday evening.

Vanessa Edwardes and Haley Ryan run the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s increasingly popular Nippers program for kids too young to be junior lifeguards.