community News, June 23 - 27 East
logo logo logo logo

East Hampton Press / Community / Southampton Press / Column / Community / Sag Harbor Express / Column / 1982253

community News, June 23

icon 15 Photos
Ashley Keiko, saxophonist, composer, singer/songwriter, performs in Agawam Park in Southampton on Saturday during the annual Juneteenth celebration. DANA SHAW

Ashley Keiko, saxophonist, composer, singer/songwriter, performs in Agawam Park in Southampton on Saturday during the annual Juneteenth celebration. DANA SHAW

Ashley Keiko, saxophonist, composer, singer/songwriter, performs in Agawam Park in Southampton on Saturday during the annual Juneteenth celebration. DANA SHAW

Ashley Keiko, saxophonist, composer, singer/songwriter, performs in Agawam Park in Southampton on Saturday during the annual Juneteenth celebration. DANA SHAW

Carl Nelson, Denise Smith Meacham, Jermaine Brantley, Alberta Johnson and Roger Gossom at the Juneteenth celebration in Agawam Park in Southampton on Saturday. DANA SHAW

Carl Nelson, Denise Smith Meacham, Jermaine Brantley, Alberta Johnson and Roger Gossom at the Juneteenth celebration in Agawam Park in Southampton on Saturday. DANA SHAW

A’Lelia Bundles, author of

A’Lelia Bundles, author of "On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker," the biography about her great-great grandmother, pioneering entrepreneur Madam C. J. Walker, gives the keynote address at the Southampton African American Museum's Juneteenth celebration on Saturday. DANA SHAW

Members of Halo, an all black female barbershop acapella ensemble from Washington, DC, performs at the Southampton African American Museum's Juneteenth celebration on Saturday. DANA SHAW

Members of Halo, an all black female barbershop acapella ensemble from Washington, DC, performs at the Southampton African American Museum's Juneteenth celebration on Saturday. DANA SHAW

Mary Bromley and Tony Bullock at the private screening on Sunday at the Sag Harbor Cinema of Markie Hancock's documentary

Mary Bromley and Tony Bullock at the private screening on Sunday at the Sag Harbor Cinema of Markie Hancock's documentary "The Power of Community: How One Small Town Stood Against Domestic Violence," which chronicles how The Retreat got it's start 35 years ago. The film will be released publicly in late 2022. RICHARD LEWIN

Amy Cerullo, Nicole Behrens, Barbara Mattson and, foreground, filmmaker Markie Hancock at the private screening on Sunday at the Sag Harbor Cinema of Ms. Hancock's documentary

Amy Cerullo, Nicole Behrens, Barbara Mattson and, foreground, filmmaker Markie Hancock at the private screening on Sunday at the Sag Harbor Cinema of Ms. Hancock's documentary "The Power of Community: How One Small Town Stood Against Domestic Violence," which chronicles how The Retreat got it's start 35 years ago. The film will be released publicly in late 2022. RICHARD LEWIN

Claudia Pilato and Retreat Executive Director Loretta K. Davis at the private screening on Sunday at the Sag Harbor Cinema of filmmaker Markie Hancock's documentary

Claudia Pilato and Retreat Executive Director Loretta K. Davis at the private screening on Sunday at the Sag Harbor Cinema of filmmaker Markie Hancock's documentary "The Power of Community: How One Small Town Stood Against Domestic Violence," which chronicles how The Retreat got it's start 35 years ago. The film will be released publicly in late 2022. RICHARD LEWIN

Hugh King and Audrey Gaines at the East Hampton Village Juneteenth celebration on Sunday in Herrick Park. RICHARD LEWIN

Hugh King and Audrey Gaines at the East Hampton Village Juneteenth celebration on Sunday in Herrick Park. RICHARD LEWIN

The Reverend Dr. Lewis Brogdon, associate professor and director of the Institute for Black Church Studies at the Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY, gives the keynote speech at East Hampton Village's Juneteenth celebration in Herrick Park on Sunday. RICHARD LEWIN

The Reverend Dr. Lewis Brogdon, associate professor and director of the Institute for Black Church Studies at the Baptist Seminary in Louisville, KY, gives the keynote speech at East Hampton Village's Juneteenth celebration in Herrick Park on Sunday. RICHARD LEWIN

East Quogue School held its annual Flag Day ceremony on June 14. Students sing patriotic songs, the East Quogue School Marching Band plays, and students are asked to invite family members who have served in the military for a special ceremony honoring them for their service. Students also wrote short essays about what the flag means to them. This year’s essay winners were second-grader Faith Taylor, left, and fifth-grader Genesis Jenkins, center. East Quogue second-grade teacher Sue Masera, right, started the Flag Day ceremony six years ago, and it has become an East Quogue School tradition. CAILIN RILEY

East Quogue School held its annual Flag Day ceremony on June 14. Students sing patriotic songs, the East Quogue School Marching Band plays, and students are asked to invite family members who have served in the military for a special ceremony honoring them for their service. Students also wrote short essays about what the flag means to them. This year’s essay winners were second-grader Faith Taylor, left, and fifth-grader Genesis Jenkins, center. East Quogue second-grade teacher Sue Masera, right, started the Flag Day ceremony six years ago, and it has become an East Quogue School tradition. CAILIN RILEY

World War II Veteran Joe DeCristofaro was honored at the Springs School Flag Day ceremony on Tuesday, June 14. KYRIL BROMLEY

World War II Veteran Joe DeCristofaro was honored at the Springs School Flag Day ceremony on Tuesday, June 14. KYRIL BROMLEY

Students during the Springs School Flag Day ceremony on Tuesday, June 14. KYRIL BROMLEY

Students during the Springs School Flag Day ceremony on Tuesday, June 14. KYRIL BROMLEY

East Hampton Town Police Officer Grace Peterson was honored at the Springs School Flag Day ceremony on Tuesday, June 14. KYRIL BROMLEY

East Hampton Town Police Officer Grace Peterson was honored at the Springs School Flag Day ceremony on Tuesday, June 14. KYRIL BROMLEY

The Sag Harbor/Bridgehampton Little League took part in a parade around Citi Field on Sunday as part of the New York Mets Future Stars program.

The Sag Harbor/Bridgehampton Little League took part in a parade around Citi Field on Sunday as part of the New York Mets Future Stars program.

authorStaff Writer on Jun 20, 2022
AMAGANSETT Ice Cream! The Amagansett Village Improvement Society will host an Ice Cream Social on Saturday, June 25, at the society’s tennis courts on Atlantic Avenue and Montauk Highway. Free... more

You May Also Like:

VIEWPOINT: Life’s Quiet Wonders

By Roger Rosenblatt The solar eclipse, as advertised, was something to see, or partially to see, depending on where one stood. What is less observable yet just as remarkable is the way we apprehend such phenomena, the state of wonder we enter as we stand quasi-mesmerized before things we do not understand, and over which we have no control. Wonder. We feel it at an eclipse and, equally, though not in the same way, when something horrific happens, like the disaster at the bridge in Baltimore. Something occurs beyond rational comprehension. The sky darkens or the water blackens, and we ... 19 Apr 2024 by Roger Rosenblatt

In Bloom

Spring gives us all the distraction we need. You can tune out the world news and breathe in the fragrant air. You sense the sweetness and take a deeper breath. What is that? I stand up from my tractor seat to have a better look. Is it a stand of daffodils? An old row of “bolting” collard greens? Really, everywhere you look, there is something in bloom. Maybe the scent originates behind the privet, a grove of something special: great flowers outside an empty mansion. Maybe it is all the dandelions, the hearty ones that dot the headland — simple ... 16 Apr 2024 by Marilee Foster

From Camelot to COVID

There is an amusing scene in the film “Casablanca” when Rick Blaine says he came to Casablanca “for the waters.” When told there are no waters there, he replies, “I was misinformed.” It looks like, this year, two of the three presidential candidates will be competing for who can misinform the most voters. I thought about this a couple of weeks ago when, by the windmill in Sag Harbor, several people had set up a table to promote the delusional interests of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The table has not reappeared since, but a poster remains at the foot of ... 15 Apr 2024 by Tom Clavin

Is Plum Island Safe?

Can Plum Island, the 843-acre island a mile and a half off Orient Point, be safely preserved as a “national monument,” with public access, as is being advocated by a group of environmentalists and Congressman Nick LaLota? LaLota, of Amityville, whose district encompasses the East End, including Plum Island, has introduced a bill facilitating this. But as an official of the National Park Service testified last month at a hearing in Washington, D.C., on LaLota’s measure: “The department appreciates the bill’s intent to increase public access to and to protect Plum Island’s natural and cultural heritage, and we support that ... by Karl Grossman

Community News, April 18

YOUTH CORNER Circle of Fun The East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street in East Hampton, ... by Staff Writer

A Return to Fretting

In 1997, my father helped me build my first greenhouse. Cliff was mainly accustomed to building with I-beams and concrete. He loved making things heavy-duty, and so he did not estimate. As we went through the site preparation, he taught me about prevailing wind and compound error. Where the instructions said one thing, he’d do an extra; where they called for tamping, he called for Sakrete. In windy Sagaponack, his vision of sturdy visited upon that which could have otherwise been a temporary structure. For years now, the greenhouse has been rugged and reliable. I do not start seeds without ... 9 Apr 2024 by Marilee Foster

PSEG Hangs On

“It’s an uphill fight,” said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. last week about the effort to make the Long Island Power Authority a fully public utility. This, despite the Legislative Commission on the Future of the Long Island Power Authority, a bipartisan eight-member panel that Thiele co-chairs, concluding after an extensive investigation and many public hearings that LIPA should operate the electric system on Long Island itself and not contract it out. That’s despite the commission’s report last year that found that cutting out the current contractor, PSEG, would provide a saving of $50 million to $80 million a ... 8 Apr 2024 by Karl Grossman

An Aging Elegy

Lately, when time allows, I’ve been taking stock, probably prompted by a significant birthday looming in three months. For those of you who think it’s 50, bless you. For those of you who think it’s 40, you should have your head examined. Oh, before I forget: If you’re anxious about the passage of time, avoid any Angelfire file connected to your high school. More about this in a bit. Just during the past week: (1) I was asked to write an extra column because of the death of Jim Marquardt, who has written for this newspaper for many years, often ... by Tom Clavin

Community News, April 11

YOUTH CORNER Circle of Fun The East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street in East Hampton, ... 3 Apr 2024 by Staff Writer

Innovative Camps

The region is well-known for its heritage of people both little and big, farmers and Vonnegut, fishermen and Walt Whitman. The newspaper men and business tycoons were bound to flow, ever east, close to the water, where golf could be played and your identity would be unknown. It’s no surprise that the Hamptons, second home to so many of this type, is now also a world leader in Summer Camp Innovation. • Apocalypse Camp. Here, your offspring will learn that there may be no more offspring — only survival. Survival of the fittest. Two three-week sessions are offered at our ... 2 Apr 2024 by Marilee Foster