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The strike at the East Hampton Stop and Shop has concluded, following a tentative agreement reached Tuesday evening between the supermarket chain and United Food and Commercial Workers Local 342. 

Supporters of Israel will hold a rally in Herrick Park on Sunday, beginning at 2 p.m. with a march from Hook Mill to the park, where several speakers will address the crowd on behalf of the many hostages, including Americans, still being held by Hamas following the Oct. 7 attacks.

When the news broke of “the geopolitical event of the century,” an East Hampton doctor, George Dempsey, and his wife, Lauren Dempsey, felt compelled to help. A few weeks ago, the Dempseys returned from their second humanitarian trip to Ukraine. This time, the mission was to deliver 50 ambulances to the Ukrainian frontlines, where the ambulances are now being used in the war effort.

Dispatches from around the Fourth of July of years gone by included raising a new Liberty Pole in the village in 1949 and, of course, Puff Daddy’s noisy party 50 years later.

Daniel Moors, a Dutch notary and administrator, wrote this letter to Cornelia Molyn Loper Schellinger (1627-1717) regarding the last will and testament of her brother-in-law, Daniel Schellinks (also spelled Schellinger), in 1707.

The six-foot inflated silver sphere that was spotted bobbing offshore at Main Beach on Saturday afternoon was neither a weather balloon nor, apparently, a spy balloon, but arriving as it did during President Biden’s heavily policed fund-raising swing through East Hampton that day, people can be forgiven for some wild speculation.

Standing outside the Newtown Lane store on Tuesday late in the morning, striking employees offered fliers to customers entering the store, urging them to reconsider their decision to shop there even at a time when people typically flock to grocery stores to get ready for Fourth of July celebrations.

A baby whale comes ashore in 1924. And much more from our pages of yore.

This summer, the Fourth falls on a Thursday and skyline spectaculars are being held practically all month long across the South Fork.

This pamphlet was produced in memory of Roy Lee Mabery (1953-1972), a star East Hampton athlete who drowned in a swimming accident shortly before his 19th birthday.

Daniel Rose Marrow of Washington, D.C., and Julia Cuddihy Butz of New York City were married on Saturday in the rose garden at the groom’s family home on Ocean Avenue near East Hampton’s Main Beach.

In the country of Georgia, citizens are standing up to the government in the wake of a new law they feel runs counter to democracy. At the center of the conflict in Georgia is an Amagansett woman, Tsisnami (Sissy) Sakvarlishvili, who has been a leader and organizer of protests for democracy and has even landed in court, facing sanctions for her work.