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For Raymond Hegner

Wed, 07/26/2023 - 17:51

Raymond Hegner, a Montauk real estate agent for more than 50 years who was fondly known as Big H, died on Saturday. He was 89. A funeral Mass will be offered today at 11 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Villages

East Hampton’s Monogram Shop Jingles All the Way

It’s fitting that the winner of East Hampton’s first Holiday Spirit storefront-décorating contest should be a business known for having fascinating windows: The Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane has made national headlines not for its holiday décor but for the tally of political cup sales that, in election cycles past, has been a notoriously accurate predictor of presidential outcomes. The window cup count was wrong in November, but the window display in December is, according to a panel of judges, oh so right.

Dec 12, 2024

A Powerful Pitch Supports Food Pantry

Pitch Your Peers, a charitable effort launched here in 2023 by Brooke Bohnsack, has awarded a $35,000 grant to the Springs Food Pantry and a $10,000 grant to Project Most, the organization announced on Dec. 1.

Dec 12, 2024

Item of the Week: Ernestine Rose, Pioneering Librarian

Bridgehampton’s Ernestine Rose, an important figure in the history of the New York Public Library, championed preserving Black culture through the Schomburg Collection.

Dec 12, 2024

 

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