Billy DePetris, a star athlete in the 1950s at Bridgehampton High School who shared his love of baseball with the generation that followed by serving as a volunteer coach and mentor, died on May 4 after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease. The son of a local restaurant owner, DePetris, known for his out-sized personality, ran the Village Restaurant and ...
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It won’t be on the ballot next week, as the various school districts on the South Fork seek approval for 2022-23 budgets and to fill...
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Thanks, VolunteersIt is that special time of year to send out a big thank you to the women and men of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association for providing lifesaving care to our community (village and town) 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They are teachers, artists, mechanics, store clerks, landscapers, accountants, Realtors, nurses, office workers — but most importantly they are our neighbors. Ranging in age on life’s journey from college students to retirees, it is their mission...
Nailed ItYour editorial this week on school consolidation [“Time To Talk,” May 12] is one of the most thought-provoking I’ve seen in a long while. This is not least because I was unaware of the hugely wasteful multiplication of school districts in Southampton Town and the screaming need to remedy it — until I read your editorial. Shows how one can think they know about local matters, but not everything. Maybe I’m overreacting, but this is a horror! Seems the conversation...
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