The last time, in February, that Frank Ackley played in a United States Tennis Association national tournament, he couldn’t walk the day after losing a round-of-16 match in three sets to the 70s division’s top-ranked player, Ken Dahl of Montreal.
Oz Pearlman, 36, of New York City, who besides a number of marathon wins is known as a magician and mentalist, won, perhaps predictably, Sunday’s Firecracker 8K (4.96-mile) race in Southampton in 27 minutes and 36.68 seconds, topping a field of 245 entrants.
Men's and women's slow-pitch softball dominates the calendar, but on Saturday there's a youth triathlon at Long Beach and a horsey fund-raiser with Georgina Bloomberg in Water Mill.
The owner and the manager of a single-family house on Railroad Avenue in East Hampton at which 32 unrelated people were found to be living in hazardous conditions last July have pleaded guilty to 13 charges and will pay fines totaling $21,000.
