For Frazer Dougherty

Thu, 01/11/2024 - 07:58

January 11, 2024

A celebration of Frazer Dougherty’s life will take place at LTV Studios, the public-access television station of which he was a founder, on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The celebration is open to all in the community. Mr. Dougherty, who in his earlier days had been a B-25 pilot who flew 63 missions with the 345th Bomber Group in New Guinea during World War II, died on Aug. 29 at home in Aventura, Fla., at the age of 101.

Villages

Item of the Week: The MacKay Twins at Play, 1892

This cyanotype photograph shows Dorothy MacKay and Ruth MacKay, the twin daughters of Emily McIlvaine DuBois MacKay and the Rev. William Richard MacKay, playing on the gate to their house on Cottage Avenue.

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An East Hampton Tradition: St. Luke’s Summer Fair

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s annual summer fair — its 140th! — happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Jul 9, 2026

Beach Signs for the Instagram Era

New signs were installed last week at the three lifeguarded East Hampton Village beaches: Main, Georgica, and Two Mile Hollow. They were designed by Emma Edwards, the 21-year-old owner of Dama Creative Solutions.

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