The owners of a house where two sisters died in a fire while their family was vacationing there have admitted they rented the house illegally, built an outdoor kitchen with neither a construction permit nor an electrical inspection, and failed to make sure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms were working throughout the house.
East Hampton Town will honor Nancy Kelley, a longtime advocate for land preservation and stewardship, with a plaque dedication ceremony at the Nancy Kelley Nature Preserve on Monday morning.
East Hampton Town police blocked off roads in Montauk and had the Long Island Rail Road halt Montauk-bound trains on Friday afternoon as they responded to a possible “psychiatric emergency” at a house on Edgemere Street, not far from the train station.
A descendant of the Round Swamp Lester family who was known for her caring nature and generous spirit, Mary L. Lester died after a short illness on Aug. 11 at the Bridgeway Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hillsborough, N.J.
