A graveside service for Wallace Smith, general manager of WPPB, WLIU, and WPBX radio in Southampton for 25 years and a familiar voice on the FM airwaves, will be on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Shelter Island Cemetery, which is at 32 North Ferry Road, behind the Presbyterian Church. WPPB became WLIW in 2020. Mr. Smith died on Oct. 27.
Newtown Lane will be closed at 5 p.m. Friday, when East Hampton Village holds a block party and New York Knicks watch party.
A managing partner in the group that owns the Offshore Montauk hotel and the Este restaurant that is under construction may have assuaged some concerns when he addressed the Montauk Citizens Advisory Committee this week, but skepticism clearly lingered among a segment of the large crowd.
It costs almost nothing, targets only mosquitoes, won’t poison the air, kids, or animals, and it won’t run off into the bays and ponds. It’s a mosquito bucket.
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