Montauk Farmers Market Starts Its Season Thursday
The Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s farmers market will begin Thursday on the downtown green and will run weekly from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. through Aug. 29 and for two Fridays in September.
Israeli Folk Dancing, Hebrew Reading Classes Among Summer Offerings
The Center for Jewish Life in Sag Harbor has announced a number of courses to be offered as part of its annual summer education program for adults and teens.
Nine Sites Rated High in C.C.O.M. Water Tests
Nine of the 38 local bodies of water regularly tested by the Concerned Citizens of Montauk and Surfrider Foundation were found this week to have levels of enterococcus, a gut bacteria, considered harmful to one's health.
Test results from samples collected on June 3 showed high counts of fecal enterococcus cells at three sites at Lake Montauk: Little Reed Pond Creek, Nature Preserve Beach, and East Creek, and at an outfall pipe on the ocean beach at Surfside Place.
Strawberry Festival, East Hampton Tercentenary Celebration Ticket, 1948
With the Wainscott Sewing Society’s upcoming strawberry festival on June 16 at Wainscott Chapel, this ticket for the 1948 East Hampton Town Tercentenary Celebration’s Strawberry Festival left me wondering about the history of strawberry festivals locally.