Community News, March 21 - 27 East
logo logo logo logo

East Hampton Press / Community / Southampton Press / Column / Community / Sag Harbor Express / Column / 2238350

Community News, March 21

icon 7 Photos
Scouts from Troop 58 in Southampton learned about the dangers of drugs and how to save a life using Narcan from Southampton Village Ambulance Chief Kyle McGuinness during a recent visit to Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance headquarters. COURTESY TROOP 58

Scouts from Troop 58 in Southampton learned about the dangers of drugs and how to save a life using Narcan from Southampton Village Ambulance Chief Kyle McGuinness during a recent visit to Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance headquarters. COURTESY TROOP 58

Scouts from Troop 58 in Southampton learned about the dangers of drugs and how to save a life using Narcan from Southampton Village Ambulance Chief Kyle McGuinness during a recent visit to Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance headquarters. COURTESY TROOP 58

Scouts from Troop 58 in Southampton learned about the dangers of drugs and how to save a life using Narcan from Southampton Village Ambulance Chief Kyle McGuinness during a recent visit to Southampton Village Volunteer Ambulance headquarters. COURTESY TROOP 58

Dede Gotthelf, Vickie Kahn, Southampton Village Mayor William Manger and Sarah Kautz at,

Dede Gotthelf, Vickie Kahn, Southampton Village Mayor William Manger and Sarah Kautz at, "Turning On the Off Season," a discussion on how to boost the year-round economy to help local businesses, nonprofits and cultural institutions, hosted by Dede Gotthelf, owner of the Southampton Inn on March 13. LISA TAMBURINI

Scott Rose and Don Sullivan at,

Scott Rose and Don Sullivan at, "Turning On the Off Season," a discussion on how to boost the year-round economy to help local businesses, nonprofits and cultural institutions, hosted by Dede Gotthelf, owner of the Southampton Inn on March 13. LISA TAMBURINI

The East Hampton Level Playing Field Foundation recently announced its 2024 Scholarship Winners. Left to right are: Caleb Buestan, Maya Taveras, Jocelyn Garcia, Riley Reville and Angie Castillo. KYRIL BROMLEY

The East Hampton Level Playing Field Foundation recently announced its 2024 Scholarship Winners. Left to right are: Caleb Buestan, Maya Taveras, Jocelyn Garcia, Riley Reville and Angie Castillo. KYRIL BROMLEY

The Westhampton Beach Historical Society put history on display with its float in the annual Westhampton Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade. COURTESY WESTHAMPTON BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

The Westhampton Beach Historical Society put history on display with its float in the annual Westhampton Beach St. Patrick's Day Parade. COURTESY WESTHAMPTON BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Dr. Georgette Grier-Key gives a tour of the Bay Street Theater on Saturday as part of the Southampton Town Arts and Culture Committee's winter tour. The walking tour also featured Temple Adas Israel and The Church. KYRIL BROMLEY

Dr. Georgette Grier-Key gives a tour of the Bay Street Theater on Saturday as part of the Southampton Town Arts and Culture Committee's winter tour. The walking tour also featured Temple Adas Israel and The Church. KYRIL BROMLEY

authorStaff Writer on Mar 18, 2024
YOUTH CORNER Totally Tots The East Hampton Library, 159 Main Street in East Hampton, will host its Totally Tots class, for parents with toddlers up to 3 years old, on... more

You May Also Like:

A Life-Changing Experience

It was fitting that Suffolk County, with some of the richest soil in the world and still on the New York State’s list of its top agricultural counties (No. 4 based on “farm sales”), was the setting in recent days of a “Docs Equinox” series of documentaries with the theme “Cultivating Connections: Soils, Farms, Food.” Last year, the “Docs Equinox” series focused on drinking water and the aquifer. There were outstanding documentaries and speakers. The documentaries and speakers on April 12-14 this year — again in honor of Earth Day — were most outstanding, too. Indeed, after viewing a documentary ... 22 Apr 2024 by Karl Grossman

Community News, April 25

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

Immigration in Irons?

Lately, I’ve been sniffing a little shift in the immigration winds. I think it started with the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. Four workers died that night. Four men doing the hard, dangerous work most of us once took pride in and now want to avoid. Four men peacefully struggling to earn their daily bread. Fathers working to feed their children. Brothers sending money home. Churchgoers. A dad who laughed with his young daughter at a water park kind of men. In other words, men with the family values so many Americans cherish. They were ... by Carlos Sandoval

VIEWPOINT: Life’s Quiet Wonders

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 gape, open-mouthed, like ... 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