A Sag Harbor woman reported a scam that defrauded her of more than $200,000 to Sag Harbor Village police — and ultimately the Federal Bureau of Investigation — after a previously unknown individual contacted her on Instagram.
Carolyn Celeste Cerchiai “devoted her life to her family,” they wrote. “Carolyn’s warmth touched everyone who knew her.” Mrs. Cerchiai died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Jan. 22. She was 80 and had a respiratory illness.
Liam Knight, a junior, led the East Hampton High School boys swimming team to a third-place finish in the League 2 championship meet at Sachem East High School on Jan. 27, accounting for 80 of the team’s 225 points in the four events he swam, the 100 and 200 freestyle races, which he won, and as a member of the second-place 400 free relay team and the fourth-place 200 free relay team.
Kieran Hildreth of Montauk, a 15-year-old sophomore at the Burke Mountain Academy in Vermont, dominated the Eastern Region U-16 circuit, winning the United States Ski and Snowboard Association Regional Performance Series super-G race at Copper Mountain, Colo., in December, which he followed up by winning all six giant slalom and slalom races at an annual RPS event at Whiteface Mountain in the Adirondacks.
