Peter J. Steckowski, a former Amagansett resident, died on Dec. 22 in Boomer, N.C. He was 60. A spring memorial will be announced, and an obituary will appear in a future issue.
Donovan Solis, the owner of Georgica Services, an auto shop known for its high end, rare, and classic cars, started working there as a teenager — washing windshields at the gas pumps — and at first, he wasn’t even getting paid to do it.
Kelly and John Piccinnini, the new co-owners and sole operators of 1 Main Street in Sag Harbor — more familiarly known as the Corner Bar — spoke this week about the future of the community staple and meeting place.
Much to the chagrin of her captain, the bark Elmiranda never stood a chance once she was caught in one of our area’s thick fogs in April 1894.
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