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.
Sensational mentions of a flesh-eating bacterium aside, the State of the Bays symposium at the Stony Brook Southampton campus offered dire news regarding degraded waterways and climate change.
The Vibrio vulnificus “flesh eating” bacterium “is not unusual in warm saltwater or brackish environments and does not necessarily indicate pollution or a widespread public health emergency,” the Southampton Town Trustees said in an advisory issued following a social media post that went viral.
The L.I.R.R.’s Fishermen’s Special to Montauk and Hampton Bays was once a convenient and popular rail service for urban anglers. The photo here is from 1946.
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