Mourners filled the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor on Thursday afternoon to remember Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack, the pilot who died last Thursday when the small seaplane he was flying crashed at the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton.
The short documentary “Rocco Up” tells the inspiring story of Rocco, a 9-year-old Montauk boy with autism, whose father taught him to surf, much to the joy of his family and the Ditch Plain surf community.
“Probably the most alarming . . . finding was the severity of the mental health needs and experiences of depression, anxiety, and suicide attempts among the L.G.B.T.Q.+ population,” Jennifer Mesiano Higham of Stony Brook University Hospital said of the results of a Stony Brook Medicine survey on the health care experiences and challenges of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ population on Long Island.
While there were winners at the East Hampton Town Trustees’ 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest — for clam chowder and for the largest clams harvested from Lake Montauk and Napeague Harbor — the day also ended with a cliffhanger because three of the five water bodies from which clams could be harvested were closed to shellfishing after heavy rains.
