Item of the Week: Percy Heath Plays the Bass
This December 1989 photo from The East Hampton Star’s archive depicts Percy Heath, Montauker, sportfisherman, artist, and bassist who co-founded the Modern Jazz Quartet.
Two Face D.W.I. Charges
Two men were charged with drunken driving last week, in what was otherwise a quiet week on local roads.
On the Police Logs 01.12.23
A “tall white male” was asking patrons at the post office Saturday afternoon if they’d give him some money so he could “restore a broken flagpole,” and someone called in a report of peddling. By the time police arrived, the man had departed.
Marilyn (Sica) Thompson
Marilyn Thompson of Montauk, an abstract artist whose career spanned 50 years, died on Dec. 11 while vacationing in Madeira, Portugal. She was 90.