For Gail Sheehy

Thu, 09/03/2020 - 08:27

September 3, 2020

Gail Sheehy, a New York journalist and writer of renown who also lived for a time in East Hampton, died on Aug. 24 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of complications of pneumonia, her daughter Maura Sheehy told The Times. She was 83 and had been visiting Robert Emmett Ginna Jr., her longtime companion, in Sag Harbor.

The family will hold a funeral tomorrow at noon at Sag Harbor's Oakland Cemetery, with lunch to follow at the American Hotel in that village. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Villages

Mehring Forms New Independent Trust for Affordable Housing

It wasn’t on anyone’s agenda. That was because the big news to emerge from Tuesday’s East Hampton Town Board meeting came during the public comment portion. That’s when Jaine Mehring, a member of the town’s Zoning Board of Appeals and litter action committee, and the founder of Build.In.Kind/East Hampton, announced the formation of the East Hampton Community Housing Trust.

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Fresh Eyes on Worker Violations

Immigrant advocates and the East Hampton Village Board were broadly in agreement that handling code violations vis-a-vis service workers could be streamlined in a way to ease deportation fears.

Aug 7, 2025

Metallica Coming to the Talkhouse

A few hundred lucky subscribers to SiriusXM satellite radio will be treated to a concert by Metallica, one of the biggest bands in the world, when the broadcaster holds its annual concert at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Aug. 28.

Aug 7, 2025

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