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Updated Covid-19 Boosters Advised

The updated Covid-19 booster shots — which protect against both the original strain of the virus and the now-dominant Omicron subvariants — are already becoming available at pharmacies, physicians’ offices, and other sites.

Sep 8, 2022
Water Was ‘Safe Space’ After 9/11

The destruction of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, was deeply felt in Montauk for many months after the attacks, as people sought to get away from the smoldering hellscape of Lower Manhattan and find some comfort and solace at sea.

Sep 8, 2022
Item of the Week: Meet Ettie Hedges Pennypacker

In this undated photograph, Ettie Hedges Pennypacker (1879-1970) stands in a farmyard in a long pale dress. The dress is anachronistic, a simple Empire style popular into the 1820s but out of fashion during her lifetime. Perhaps she is in costume for a party, such as the ones she attended at Home, Sweet Home or the state historians conference.

Sep 8, 2022
A Gift for the Givers: Free Yoga Classes

Jolie Parcher, the owner of the Mandala Yoga Center for Healing Arts, believes that those in the business of giving, such as first responders, nonprofit workers, and caregivers of the elderly and sick, are depleting themselves, a concern that led to a partnership with the Clamshell Foundation of East Hampton to offer free yoga classes for local E.M.S. personnel, domestic violence survivors, those suffering from Parkinson’s disease, senior citizens, and even the weary farmers.

Sep 8, 2022
Treasure Hunters of the Metal Underground

“It’s like giant scratch-off. You don’t know what’s underground until you dig the hole,” Keith Douglas, a history-obsessed Bridgehamptoner, said of metal detecting. Detectorists explore old cart paths, long-gone colonial home sites, farm fields, and even some parkland digging up small relics that help tell the history of the East End.

Sep 8, 2022
Springs Meeting on ‘Nightmare’ Cell Service

An informational meeting about emergency and personal wireless communications in Springs is scheduled for Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Springs Firehouse.

Sep 1, 2022
Presbyterians Here Are Praying for a New Pastor

East End Presbyterians are facing a unique challenge this year as six churches here are without a full-time pastor — and everyone’s trying to find one.

Sep 1, 2022
Redone Montauk Skatepark Is ‘World Class’

The crowd of children and adults early on Friday afternoon, hours before its official reopening, were a clear indication that the renovated Lars Simenson Skatepark in Montauk is a hit. "What happened was a very organic process of people just building enthusiasm, community coming together . . . until we ended up with something that is world class," said a member of the Montauk Skatepark Coalition.

Sep 1, 2022
Psychedelic Healing Center Opens in Southampton

Many people know by now that Southampton Town has “opted in” to open cannabis dispensaries and consumption lounges one of these days, but less known is that the town is now hosting the East End’s only psychedelic healing center.

Sep 1, 2022
‘Gone for 12 Minutes,' Teen Lifeguards Helped Save Him

When David Plotkin collapsed while biking on Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, bystanders and lifeguards jumped into action, helping to perform CPR for 15 minutes as they waited for an ambulance. That Mr. Plotkin survived is thanks to their quick action.

Sep 1, 2022
Item of the Week: Mary Rattray’s September Swim

In this photograph, 12-year-old Mary Huntting Rattray (1927-2016) appears just past her ankles in the surf as she enters the ocean at Napeague in 1939.

Sep 1, 2022
The Way It Was for September 1, 2022

Forget the gold rush, in 1897 an East Hamptoner went north with hens to make money selling eggs in the Yukon. Fifty years later, T.W.A.’s Juan Trippe dressed up as Carmen Miranda at a Maidstone Club costume ball. And much more.

Sep 1, 2022