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.
Polar plunges at Main Beach in East Hampton and Beach Lane in Wainscott on New Year’s Day accomplish many things: bracing and exhilarating starts to the year, the company of many hundreds of friends and fellow townspeople, and a chance to secure bragging rights that extend well into 2026. But most important, each serves as a critical fund-raiser for food pantries.
Soon after moving to Water Mill with her family in 2015, Marit Molin became aware of a largely unacknowledged population underpinning the complicated Hamptons economy. That led her to create Hamptons Community Outreach, which is dedicated to meeting basic critical needs to help break cycles of poverty.
This etching by Mary Nimmo Moran shows what was likely the view from her home across Town Pond, with the Gardiner Mill in the background, a favorite landscape for her.
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