For Janet S. Halliday

Thu, 05/23/2024 - 10:31

May 23, 2024

A funeral service for Janet Schellinger Halliday of Sag Harbor will take place today at 11 a.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Burial at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett will follow. She died on Feb. 18 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue at the age of 99. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Villages

Montauk Beaver Meets Its End on Highway

A beaver that likely arrived at Hither Hills State Park in the ocean surf last April and then built a lodge in a secluded part of Fresh Pond in Hither Woods was found dead on the side of Montauk Highway Tuesday morning.

Jun 13, 2024

A Surprise Guest at ACAC Meeting

The Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee had a surprise guest Monday night, Natalie Mongan, a junior at East Hampton High School. Ms. Mongan presented her own independent research, done through an A.P. research seminar, showing the level of erosion at Atlantic Avenue Beach that can not only affect shoreline defense, but shift the coastline itself.

Jun 13, 2024

Item of the Week: Remembering Dorothy Horton, 1899-1917

This tintype photo from the Fowler family photographs shows young Dorothy Horton seated in front of what is likely the Fowler House in East Hampton.

Jun 13, 2024

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