A wake and fire department service for Joseph L. Fitzgerald of Springs will be held tomorrow from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church on Saturday at 11 a.m., with burial to follow at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.
Mr. Fitzgerald, a World War II veteran and charter member and ex-chief of the Springs Fire Department, died on Friday. He was 94. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
Residents of Sag Harbor have come together to denounce what some see as a troubling wave of chain stores. A petition launched by Save Sag Harbor that calls for new legislation to define and limit “formula retail” or “chain establishments” in the village has been signed by over 500 people in the last week.
After 15 years in Sag Harbor, GeekHampton, which sells and services Apple products, will close on Tuesday at 6 p.m. It will reopen on May 4 in Hampton Bays.
This Thomas Dering and John Hulbert letter had to do with issuing permits of return to those who’d fled Long Island during the British occupation, which is also the topic of the next Tom Twomey lecture Friday night at the East Hampton Library.
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