For Virginia Backlund

Thu, 02/17/2022 - 10:05

February 17, 2022

Visiting hours for Virginia Backlund of East Hampton will be tomorrow from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with a funeral service on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Presbyterian Church on Main Street. Ms. Backlund died at home on Tuesday. She was 101. An obituary will appear in a future issue of The Star.

Villages

A Loaded HarborFest Weekend

HarborFest 2025 will be taking over Sag Harbor this weekend, with events and activities planned throughout the village both Saturday and Sunday.

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Royalty Rides Into Horse Show on a Mission

Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe.

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Kid Finds Humongous Oyster

It almost looked like a dinner plate, Tim Miller said this week of the oyster his niece, Adelynn O’Shea, found while the family was boating near Three Mile Harbor.

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