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Every July for over two decades, Montauk has come together in the spirit of Rell Sunn, the surfing champion, to raise money for those in need. This year’s proceeds from the contest will benefit the Montauk Food Pantry and Concerned Citizens of Montauk.

It’s appropriate that Michael Potts will be honored on Sunday afternoon as the Montauk Fishing Legend of the Year at the Montauk Grand Slam fishing tournament that Henry Uihlein has hosted at his marina for nearly three decades.

An estimated 150 I-Tri girls, members of Theresa Roden’s widely praised empowerment program that is in middle schools spanning Mastic to Montauk, participated Sunday in a youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach.

My good friend Robert Cugini, who hails from Seattle, has served as a valued deckhand for many years when bay scallop season opens in early November. But lobsters are a different ballgame.

John Kernell’s golfing efforts at Montauk Downs were immortalized in a Jack Graves column in 1999, plus a celebration of the late John Villaplana, Eastern Long Island Soccer League all-star.

The 26th annual Rell Sunn Surf Contest benefit will happen Sunday at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk, this time with sponsorship by Concerned Citizens of Montauk. 

East Hampton fire trucks and police cars greeted the Little League 10-and-under all-star softball team at around 9:30 p.m. on July 3 as the joyful players returned here after defeating their Riverhead peers 5-3 in the District 36 championship game played at Stotzky Memorial Park.

James Wood, son of the Bonac basketball legend Kenny Wood, has been billed as “the next face of the Washington Nationals’ franchise.” He lived up that billing in his debut last week.

With three East Hamptoners in the lineup, the Sag Harbor Whalers sailed to a 6-0 win over the South Shore Clippers in a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League game at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park Sunday afternoon. The Whalers were in third place as of that day.

Tim Garvin and the South Fork Country Club in Amagansett played host last Thursday to 66 young golfers and 22 pros from all over the Island in the Met PGA Long Island Pro Junior championship, a best-ball competition contested by foursomes.

I know that the East End is a well-known hot spot. I realize that nothing stays the same, but I miss the more simple days when courtesy, respect, and kindness ruled the road and water. Is it too much to ask for today?

Colin Ruddy, coming off his sophomore year pitching for Monmouth University in New Jersey, reflects on the solid foundation he got pitching for Bonac, and what’s next for him on the mound.