James F. Jensen of Southampton died on Friday in Riverhead at the age of 82. Mr. Jensen, known as J.J., was a bartender at Cittanuova in East Hampton for many years. A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Friday, Oct. 13, at 10:30 a.m. at the Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Southampton, with burial to follow at Sacred Hearts Cemetery.
Arrangements are being handled by the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
A cocktail party for the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, the Wainscott Strawberry Festival, and the East Hampton Historical Society’s annual membership party are just a few of the things to keep you entertained this weekend.
From the Viking Starship, two men of the cloth dispensed prayers and holy water on the boats parading by. “Everybody’s got their boats ready. The fish are showing up,” one commercial boat owner, John Aldridge, said.
Twenty years after purchasing the parcel at 472 Old Stone Highway in Springs and opening Old Stone Market, Wolf Reiter and Vicky Sdrougias called it a career. The market closed, much to the sorrow of many, on Monday.
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