“Our season has been an amazing season,” John Ryan Jr., the town’s chief lifeguard, said of East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard program, which teaches children ages 9 to 15 the importance of water safety and ocean awareness.

Service was paused at Gosman’s Topside, Inlet Cafe, and Clam Bar restaurants on Friday afternoon so the blessing of good health for Kate Hobbes could be celebrated by the tight-knit staff.

More than a week after the body of Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra, a 33-year-old Manhattan-based Irish entrepreneur, was found on a boat docked at the Montauk Yacht Club, very little has been publicly disclosed by police about the circumstances of her death, while news outlets from around the world have attempted to surmise what might have happened. 

Robert Hefner and Kay Spear Gibson had been searching for some time for a suitable tribute to honor Isabel (Min) Spear Hefner, his wife and her sister, who died in 2023 of breast cancer. When they found an auction listing for a painting by Mary Nimmo Moran they “instantly knew” it would be the perfect way to memorialize Min’s “beauty, her incredible bravery.”