Sports Briefs 06.18.20
I-Tri brings an online youth triathlon Saturday morning and a revived Turbo Tri for adults and children for July, while the Montauk Mile extends its virtual competition.
After Protests, What Does Real Change Look Like?
The organizers of recent Black Lives Matter protests on the South Fork and many of their supporters have begun forming grassroots committees to generate ideas, build relationships, and ultimately make meaningful change.
Focusing on education, financial literacy, job security, career development, voter registration, housing, and relationships with local police, a diverse group of more than 25 people came together -- virtually, of course -- on Friday night to begin putting action behind the words and signs seen at demonstrations that continued this week across the East End.
Mark Humphrey, Artist and Gallerist
Mark Humphrey of the Mark Humphrey Gallery in Southampton died last Thursday of complications of cancer at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 71.
Arthur J. Cortes, Charter Fisherman
Arthur J. Cortes, who owned and operated Halfback Charters in Montauk for 30 years, died from a fall at his home adjacent to Montauk Downs State Park on May 28. He was 74.
Sportfishing and the ocean were Mr. Cortes’s passions, and he worked on many Long Island charter boats before moving to Montauk in 1991, because “that was where the fish were,” as he put it on the Halfback Charters website. He owned the company, which operated from a 39-foot Hatteras Express, from that year until his death.