Edwin Keeshan, medical director of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk, will host the hamlet’s first Walk With a Doc, part of a national effort, on Saturday at 11 a.m. The meeting place is the gazebo on the downtown green.
ReWild Long Island is beginning its summer composting program this weekend and will collect compost and provide information to those interested on Saturday at the Springs and Sag Harbor Farmers Markets and the Montauk Community Garden. The organization will have tables at Ashawagh Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Sag Harbor market on Bay Street from 10 a.m. to noon, and also from 10 a.m. to noon in Montauk.
The group will maintain those same hours throughout the season, with help from adult and teen volunteers, who will explain what kind of scraps can and cannot be composted.
LTV has launched the Pine Protection Project, an effort to address the southern pine beetle’s devastating impact on East Hampton Town’s pitch-pine forests. The project is a multifaceted approach with a goal of fostering discussion leading to action and solutions, and will include a June 11 panel discussion at LTV Studios in Wainscott.
Dr. Pember Edwards and Matt Chapman were married on April 26 at the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, the very church where they had met in a youth group in the 1990s. The ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Jon Rodriguez, was filled with thoughtful details of deep significance to the couple.
