A wake for Joseph DeCristofaro of East Hampton, who died on Monday at age 98, will be held today from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home here. A graveside service is planned for Friday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Cemetery on Cedar Street.
Last week, for the third time since July, the owners of Rowdy Hall, the popular East Hampton bar and restaurant that is relocating to Amagansett, attempted to win approval from the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board to bring its signature look to Amagansett Main Street. It did not go well.
“Forgotten Founders: David Hempstead, Senior,” a documentary by two local filmmakers, focuses on both Hempstead, who was born a slave in 1774, freed in 1805, and went on to own a 95-acre farm on Shelter Island, and the Plain Sight Project, a nonprofit devoted to naming and recognizing the enslaved people of the East End.
Democratic candidates for East Hampton Town supervisor and town board accentuated leadership and experience, while their Republican counterparts pointed to what they called mismanagement and slow progress on a range of issues, during a forum hosted by Montauk United at that hamlet’s firehouse on Sunday.
