Rudolph Rando of Montauk, who was known as Rudy, died of sepsis on Sunday at San Simeon by the Sound in Greenport. He was 92 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
He’d seen people on Town Pond and was concerned, a village resident told police on Dec. 16. An officer responded to see several men skating and playing ice hockey. No action was necessary.
Several people were injured in a collision in Springs between an S.U.V. and a Jeep last week, and George Watson of the Dock bar and grill was injured while riding his bicycle in Montauk.
A plaque installed outside Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s Emergency Medical Technician room last week officially dedicates the space to the late Randy Hoffman of East Hampton, a critical-care E.M.T. who worked with fire and ambulance departments across the South Fork and was credited with saving at least two lives during his long tenure as a first responder.
East Hampton Village is now home to 14 Flock license plate reader surveillance cameras, which amounts to one for every 108 full-time residents, if you go by the 2020 census data. They're heralded by local police for aiding in enforcement and investigations, but they use a technology that has proven controversial nationally with those concerned about civil liberties.
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