The wind off the water felt good on a hot and humid Shelter Island 10K race day Saturday, more than one runner said, and it also felt good to be racing unrestrictedly again after the year-plus-long coronavirus-imposed hiatus.
It was Noah Avallone's first time surfing in California, but he quickly got used to it on his 9-foot-3-inch Paul Surf longboard, taking the West Coast and Hawaiian surfers in his age group unawares.
Tom Cohill, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter's aquatics director, thinks its youth swim team, the Hurricanes, is "the best pound for pound in the state," which was borne out in a meet with Huntington last week.
Betty Greene Mazur, the vice chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee and a member of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 16. She was 90. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
