Shawn Mitchell, an Amagansett School kindergarten teacher who not long ago took over a youth basketball league in Sag Harbor, now oversees the East End Basketball Organization for third through sixth graders.
A trip into the past to revisit a basketball barn-burner and a martial arts powerhouse at the Ross School.
After watching the devastation wrought by the wildfires raging through Los Angeles County, three Sag Harbor Elementary School students spearheaded a read-a-thon to raise money to buy books for children who lost their schools and, in many cases, homes to the Eaton fire. It brought in close to $15,000.
The Peconic Estuary Partnership, which was to receive $2.7 million in federal funding toward projects that include a $200,000 stormwater mitigation effort in Sag Harbor and $100,000 of wetlands work in Southampton, is now unsure if that funding will be available following an executive order by the Trump administration that froze billions in federal grants.
