“You hear them before you see them,” Nick Lombardo, a fifth-year lifeguard at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, said. A thundering rumble, a vibration in the chest; when the Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing's military aircraft fly by “the whole beach looks up.” But what are these immense machines, and what are they doing?
Darius Petty, who last year was accused of kidnapping and robbing three young men at gunpoint in the parking lot of the East Hampton Senior Center, and was sentenced in June to three years in prison, was released from custody in July for a monthlong “grace period” before his incarceration. On Tuesday, Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei agreed to extend the time for an additional month.
After leaving his house early Saturday, a Montauk man found a stranger asleep in his guest room when he returned late that afternoon. The intruder told police he was “unsure how, when, or why” he’d got there, adding that he’d been drinking the night before.
A 15-year-old bike rider was injured on Aug. 19 after colliding with a Chevrolet pickup truck by the side of Montauk Highway in East Hampton.
