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On the Wing: Killer in the Marsh

While the great blue heron, the largest heron in North America, is not our only winter heron (black-crowned night herons roost locally all winter), it’s the only one you’re likely to see.

Mar 10, 2022
Bees Battled in a State Tourney Semifinal Loss

Bridgehampton High School’s young boys basketball players fought to the end against their taller Chapel Field Christian School counterparts in a state regional semifinal game at Westhampton Beach Tuesday, losing 56-47.

Mar 10, 2022
Spring Beckons East Hampton’s Teams

With things finally getting back to normal Covid-wise, Bonac’s baseball, softball, boys tennis, boys and girls track, and boys and girls lacrosse teams are to begin practicing Monday.

Mar 10, 2022
Pierson Whalers Win Long Island Class C Title

For most of the Class C Long Island championship playoff game at Centereach High School Wednesday afternoon, the Pierson Whalers trailed Carle Place, but a Cecil Munshin 3-pointer in the fourth quarter kicked off the turnaround.

Mar 10, 2022
Katy’s Courage Event on Ice Till This Week

The all-day Katy’s Courage fund-raiser for pediatric cancer research will begin Saturday with a kids and parents hockey game at the Buckskill Winter Club, where popular curling lessons are also now available.

Mar 10, 2022
Junior Guards Getting Back Into the Y’s Pool

At the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Sunday there are to be testing and training sessions for new and returning junior lifeguards, Nippers, and still-water and ocean lifeguards.

Mar 3, 2022
Christy Davis: A Man of Mavericks

Christy Davis, the legendary 69-year-old Mavericks surfer and onetime East Hampton High science teacher, is the subject of a documentary film that recounts the heart attack he suffered at the notorious break in 2019 and his collision almost a year earlier with an underwater rock that resulted in a broken neck bone and two broken upper spinal vertebrae.

Mar 3, 2022
On the Wing: Kind of Gross but Amazing Nonetheless

Pigeons are extremely sensitive to low frequency sounds; they can see into the ultraviolet range of light, and they are able to detect minute changes in air pressure. They don’t keep the tidiest of homes, allowing feces, and even dead nestlings, to remain in the nest, and since they reuse their nests, they get bigger and nastier as time goes on.

Mar 3, 2022
Southampton Mariners Sink Pierson Whalers

The Mariners defeated Sag Harbor's Whalers in the county B-C-D championship Tuesday and will now play Class A Kings Park Friday night for the county small schools title. Pierson's first game in the state tourney is March 9.

Mar 2, 2022
Whalers Beat Bees for County C-D Title

The Pierson Whalers and Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees met in the Suffolk County tournament’s C-D game Saturday at Sachem East High School in Farmingville, with Pierson, as expected, winning by a wide margin.

Feb 24, 2022
On The Wing: Song of the Sparrow

The white-throated sparrow’s song “is a lament,” George Gladden wrote, “a lament which is wistful and ineffably plaintive, but in which there is no despair, only sweet hopefulness.”

Feb 24, 2022
Three Crowned in Sportime’s Futsal Finals

At Amagansett’s Sportime Arena, three indoor soccer championship games were played Saturday, with F.C. Napoli, in the men’s open division, the East Hampton Futbol Club, in the women’s division, and Fenix Club, in the men’s 37-plus division, emerging as the trophy winners.

Feb 24, 2022