Villages

This week's Long Island Collection Item of the Week focuses on the oldest graveyard in East Hampton and the final resting place for a number of well-known figures.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. on Tuesday presented Lorraine Dusky of Sag Harbor with a signed copy of a new bill on adoption rules passed by the New York State Legislature that Ms. Dusky helped make happen.     

Eight years after its trial run, the Peconic Jitney, a ferry service that provided a direct link between Sag Harbor and Greenport, may return this summer.     

The location of a burial ground believed to contain the remains of as many as 20 people, some of whom may have been formerly enslaved, has been lost. A single gravestone is a rare clue.

Frank and Denise Forde of Springs have announced the engagement of their daughter Whitney Forde to Nicholas Matheson, the son of Howie and Rosanne Matheson of Southport, N.C.

Accounts by people of African heritage whose paths crossed Long Island at one time or another provide glimpses of what their lives were like. They tell a story of brutality, deprivation, and, above all, resistance.

Capt. Anthony Long of the East Hampton Village Police Department addressed the village board last Thursday on the pros and cons of parking regulations.

Hemp farmers and other members of  New York State’s emerging cannabis industry weighed in on the crop’s economic potential and the prospect of marijuana legalization at a forum in Sag Harbor on Saturday.     

The trial of the owner of the Petit Bleu children’s store in East Hampton Village, who was cited by code enforcement for placing two stuffed golden retrievers at the entrance to her shop, was held Monday in East Hampton Town Justice Court.

Residents of Northwest Woods vociferously objected to an AT&T plan to build a 185-foot-tall cell tower in their neighborhood at an East Hampton Town Planning Board public hearing on Feb. 5.     

Hold on to your sailor hats. Bella Noche, a drag queen who performs as a mermaid, is headlining the first Drag Queen Story Hour at the Children’s Museum of the East End on Feb. 15.

Across Long Island and New England, enslaved Black people were present from the beginnings of the colony. Here, they toiled alongside their enslavers, without the right to control their fate, but helping to secure a toehold on the edge of a new world.

Milton Creagh, a motivational speaker and the author of the book “Nobody Wants Your Child,” has some life lessons to share.

The owners of an oceanfront property in a coastal erosion hazard area, who were denied permission and variances by the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals to raze their house and construct a larger one, have asked the New York State Supreme Court to overturn the board’s determination.

This week's Long Island Collection Item of the Week examines business dealings between a formerly enslaved woman and Henry Packer Dering of Sag Harbor.

The Amagansett Chamber of Commerce has announced that East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue will collectively serve as grand marshal of this year’s Am O’Gansett Parade, which will happen at noon on March 14.     

The plans to install the pole will not be revisited until all parties can agree on a new riser pole design and location, according to a PSEG Long Island spokeswoman.

WPPB’s call letters are to be changed to WLIW in the coming months, according to a statement WNET issued on Friday.

The village will sell only 3,100 nonresident beach permits, which provide for parking access at Main, Georgica, Egypt, Two Mile Hollow, and Wiborg Beaches.

This week's Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection highlights Carrie Butler, a daughter of Olive Miranda Fowler Butler and Capt. Samuel Butler, who served as a soldier in the Civil War. Her mother was born on Montaukett land in Montauk.

Watching news about the devastating brushfires raging across Australia, people around the world and here on the South Fork have been moved to help in all sorts of ways

A candidate for East Hampton Village mayor filed a report of harassment with the East Hampton Town police after receiving three anonymous letters that disparaged his character and campaign.

Volunteerism was the center of attention when the Sag Harbor Village Board met on Jan. 22, with members of the village’s emergency services, food pantry, Cinema Arts Center, and others invited to speak about their work and their efforts to recruit new members.

Richard Lawler, the deputy mayor of East Hampton Village, was promoted to mayor by his fellow trustees at a board meeting on Friday. He will fill out the final six months of the term of Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., who resigned from office Dec. 31.     

At the Montauk Library, preparations are underway to move books, staff, equipment, and programs into four large trailers that will serve as temporary quarters as the library undertakes its first expansion since construction of its current building in 1991. 

A proposal from PSEG Long Island, the electric utility, to install a single supersize pole on Cooper Lane that would allow for fewer transmission lines and less obtrusive poles on nearby McGuirk and King Streets, was the subject of a heated public hearing at an ad hoc meeting of the village board on Tuesday evening.     

“There is only one race, and that race is the human race,” Georgette Grier-Key said during celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton on Monday.     

The Noyac Civic Council has received word from Representative Lee Zeldin’s office that the Environmental Protection Agency is looking into the Sand Land mine in Noyac as a possible Superfund site.

When Ram Dass, the onetime proponent of hallucinogenic drugs turned spiritual seeker and New Age guru, died on Dec. 22 in Maui, Hawaii, Rameshwar Das of Springs was at his side.