Death in Patchogue
Suffolk police are investigating the death of a Bridgehampton native whose body was found by the side of the road in Patchogue on Saturday night.
Chick Bills, An Artist, Plus
It is not hyperbole to say there was nothing Chick Bills could not make, fix, or take apart. The East Hampton artist, fabricator, and polymath died at North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset on May 5. He was 68 and had been in poor health since a heart attack more than three years ago.
On the Police Logs 06.20.19
Strong winds on Saturday night gave people on a raft off Havens Beach a hard time. After calling 911 at 5:05 p.m., the caller rowed his own boat out to the raft and towed it back to shore.
Joseph Scheerer Jr., 92
Joseph Durand Scheerer Jr., a former resident of Amagansett and East Hampton who had a career as a stockbroker and president of a dairy company, died of heart failure on June 12, surrounded by family at his house in Duxbury, Mass. He was 92, and had been ill for only a short time.