Community News, November 28 - 27 East
logo logo logo logo

East Hampton Press / Community / Southampton Press / Column / Community / Sag Harbor Express / Column / 2311824

Community News, November 28

icon 18 Photos
The Southampton Artists Association presented a check for $5,200 to Heart of the Hamptons recently. The money was raised by the sales at the Art of the Heart fundraiser hosted by the association. From left, Southampton Artists Association President Danielle Leef, Heart of the Hamptons Executive Director Molly Bishop, SAA Outreach Committee Chair Jean Mahoney and SAA Exhibition Committee Chair Diane White. COURTESY SOUTHAMPTON ARTISTS ASSOCIATION

The Southampton Artists Association presented a check for $5,200 to Heart of the Hamptons recently. The money was raised by the sales at the Art of the Heart fundraiser hosted by the association. From left, Southampton Artists Association President Danielle Leef, Heart of the Hamptons Executive Director Molly Bishop, SAA Outreach Committee Chair Jean Mahoney and SAA Exhibition Committee Chair Diane White. COURTESY SOUTHAMPTON ARTISTS ASSOCIATION

WordHampton Public Relations collected non-perishable items for the Springs Food Pantry throughout the month of November. The team, consisting of Nicole Starr Castillo, Megan Robinson, Leah Hatch, Jenn Haagen and Ashley Lynch dropped the items off on Monday, November 18, and the items were accepted by Pamela Bicket and Anne McCann, both volunteers at the pantry. COURTESY WORDHAMPTON

WordHampton Public Relations collected non-perishable items for the Springs Food Pantry throughout the month of November. The team, consisting of Nicole Starr Castillo, Megan Robinson, Leah Hatch, Jenn Haagen and Ashley Lynch dropped the items off on Monday, November 18, and the items were accepted by Pamela Bicket and Anne McCann, both volunteers at the pantry. COURTESY WORDHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

In response to the growing senior population on the East End, Southampton Town Senior Services expanded its offerings this fall, including a water aerobics program at the Suffolk County Community College Health and Wellness Center in Riverhead this month. Currently, 28 seniors are enrolled in the program. The program is on Thursday mornings, through December 19. For more information, or to register, call 631-537-2375. COURTESY TOWN OF SOUTHAMPTON

The Southampton Colony Chapter of the National Daughters of the American Revolution recently named the local high school students who earned the Good Citizen

The Southampton Colony Chapter of the National Daughters of the American Revolution recently named the local high school students who earned the Good Citizen" award. Left to right are: Quinn Cole, Pierson High School; Julianne Palmieri, Hampton Bays High School; Marin Gilmartin Southampton High School and Avery McCleland, Bridgehampton High School. With the students is "Good Citizen" committee chair Gerri MacWhinnie. DANA SHAW

Last week the East Hampton Lions Club and the American Legion Auxiliary joined forces to host their third blood drive of the year at the Amagansett American Legion Post #419. After donating blood, each person was escorted by a Lions Club member to be seated at a table nearby to rest for a short while, during which the American Legion Auxiliary, represented by member Ellen Gherardi, offered the donor chicken soup, sandwiches, veggie chili, drinks and snacks. The blood drive resulted in 115 pints of much needed blood collected. The next opportunity to donate is January 27 at the Amagansett American Legion. COURTESY EAST HAMPTON LIONS CLUB

Last week the East Hampton Lions Club and the American Legion Auxiliary joined forces to host their third blood drive of the year at the Amagansett American Legion Post #419. After donating blood, each person was escorted by a Lions Club member to be seated at a table nearby to rest for a short while, during which the American Legion Auxiliary, represented by member Ellen Gherardi, offered the donor chicken soup, sandwiches, veggie chili, drinks and snacks. The blood drive resulted in 115 pints of much needed blood collected. The next opportunity to donate is January 27 at the Amagansett American Legion. COURTESY EAST HAMPTON LIONS CLUB

Frank Quevedo, executive director, and Melanie Meade, education director, of the South Fork Natural History Museum, visited the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry to present Evie Ramunno, executive director of the pantry, with a $1,000 donation to be used during the upcoming holiday season at the pantry. From left, Kate Robertson, president Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry Board, Evie Ramunno, Frank Quevedo, Melanie Meade, and Judy Lattanzio, pantry volunteer. COURTESY SAG HARBOR FOOD PANTRY

Frank Quevedo, executive director, and Melanie Meade, education director, of the South Fork Natural History Museum, visited the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry to present Evie Ramunno, executive director of the pantry, with a $1,000 donation to be used during the upcoming holiday season at the pantry. From left, Kate Robertson, president Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry Board, Evie Ramunno, Frank Quevedo, Melanie Meade, and Judy Lattanzio, pantry volunteer. COURTESY SAG HARBOR FOOD PANTRY

Westhampton Woman's Club members enjoyed a luncheon and vintage hat presentation given by Brenda Sinclair of the Lyzon Hat shop Museum in Hampton Bays where the hats were made. In addition, many more hats from the Dot Berdinka collection were displayed and worn by club members. COURTESY WESTHAMPTON WOMAN'S CLUB

Westhampton Woman's Club members enjoyed a luncheon and vintage hat presentation given by Brenda Sinclair of the Lyzon Hat shop Museum in Hampton Bays where the hats were made. In addition, many more hats from the Dot Berdinka collection were displayed and worn by club members. COURTESY WESTHAMPTON WOMAN'S CLUB

Shinnecock Council of Trustees Chairwoman Lisa Goree at the

Shinnecock Council of Trustees Chairwoman Lisa Goree at the "Nunnowa,"or harvest time, celebration on the Shinnecock Territory on November 21. The community gathering is held the third Thursday in November, Shinnecock family members gather to eat and celebrate the harvest time with one another. JOSEPH SHAW

A

A "Nunnowa,"or harvest time, celebration was held on the Shinnecock Territory on November 21. The community gathering is held the third Thursday in November, Shinnecock family members gather to eat and celebrate the harvest time with one another. JOSEPH SHAW

"Nunnowa,"or harvest time, celebration was held on the Shinnecock Territory on November 21. The community gathering is held the third Thursday in November, Shinnecock family members gather to eat and celebrate the harvest time with one another. JOSEPH SHAW

A

A"Nunnowa,"or harvest time, celebration was held on the Shinnecock Territory on November 21. The community gathering is held the third Thursday in November, Shinnecock family members gather to eat and celebrate the harvest time with one another. JOSEPH SHAW

Shinnecock Council of Trustees Chairwoman Lisa Goree at the

Shinnecock Council of Trustees Chairwoman Lisa Goree at the "Nunnowa,"or harvest time, celebration on the Shinnecock Territory on November 21. The community gathering is held the third Thursday in November, Shinnecock family members gather to eat and celebrate the harvest time with one another. JOSEPH SHAW

A

A"Nunnowa,"or harvest time, celebration was held on the Shinnecock Territory on November 21. The community gathering is held the third Thursday in November, Shinnecock family members gather to eat and celebrate the harvest time with one another. JOSEPH SHAW

authorStaff Writer on Nov 22, 2024

You May Also Like:

89 Seconds to Midnight

I was the main speaker last week at the gathering in Suffolk County in commemoration of the atomic bombings 80 years ago of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was organized by the South Country Peace Group and co-sponsors included other peace organizations and also religious institutions, including the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stony Brook, Bellport United Methodist Church, and Old South Haven Presbyterian Church. Peace groups included Pax Christi LI; LI Alliance for Peaceful Alternatives; North Country Peace Group; Veterans for Peace Long Island, Chapter 138; and Peace Action New York State. It was held in Bellport. The threat of nuclear ... 12 Aug 2025 by Karl Grossman

Defunded but Not Defeated

I have Brian Cosgrove, host of “The Afternoon Ramble” on WLIW 88.3 FM, to thank for turning me on to Nick Drake. I’ll expand on the latter in a moment. As some of you already know, WLIW, based in Southampton, is the latest iteration of the public radio station that began almost 50 years ago as WSCR. It was first housed in a Southampton College dormitory suite and run as a student club. Construction of a new stereo FM station began in the basement of Southampton Hall by 1978. The antenna tower was raised in January 1980, and, two months ... by Tom Clavin

VIEWPOINT: A Constitutional Crisis Requires Action

By Judi Roth The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island and the North Fork is known to readers of these papers and to the community at large. We’ve marched in Southampton Village’s July 4th parade. We’ve held meetings in the libraries in Bridgehampton, East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Southampton and Westhampton Beach. We’ve been at senior centers almost everywhere. We’ve organized and moderated debates for candidates for school boards, village and Town Trustees, the town councils, Suffolk County Legislature and Congress. We have done voter registration at street fairs and post offices, and in front of Stop & ... 11 Aug 2025 by Judi Roth

Community News, August 14

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

Summer Flocks

You hear them too: the geese, the honking flock, as they arrive at the first blocks of disced-down sweet corn. Fall? Is that you? Cold mornings just as the tomatoes start to ripen. The peak of growth has been reached, and now is the long run out of harvest. Two farmers chatting, lamenting the way two plantings will come at once. Many people have their focus set to the future, but farmers know that what is happening now was caused by something that happened in the past. Conversation tends to be reflective and deductive. The stalled-out spring and near-freezing June ... 5 Aug 2025 by Marilee Foster

Shunning the Gifts of the Sun

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency — our former congressman, Lee Zeldin — was positively giddy last week when he announced that he was killing his own agency’s ability to limit pollution by the U.S. oil and gas industry. “We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion to … unleash American energy, bring auto jobs back to the U.S.,” Mr. Zeldin crowed. Who knew? The EPA’s job is to help the oil and gas and auto industries? Even if we choose to dismiss prevailing science, which shows that burning fossil fuels pollutes the ... by Biddle Duke

Community News, August 7

YOUTH CORNER JumpBunch for Toddlers Rogers Memorial Library, 91 Coopers Farm Road in Southampton, will ... 4 Aug 2025 by Staff Writer

VIEWPOINT: ‘Almost Alice’: On Lost Words and the Language of the Wild

I recently came across “The Lost Words,” a book so beautiful it felt like a spell. It swung open a door in my mind that had long been ajar — the idea that the disappearance of nature is mirrored, perhaps even preceded, by the disappearance of the words we once used to describe it. Newt. Raven. Bramble. Each name a small prayer, a key to recognition. And when those keys are lost, the locks rust shut. “The Lost Words” by Robert Macfarlane (author) and Jackie Morris (illustrator) features nature terms removed from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, culled in favor of ... 3 Aug 2025 by Ella Gatfield

VIEWPOINT: Awaiting the Next Great American Hero

Configuring a short list of the most self-sacrificing American heroes to date was easy: George Washington, Margaret Fuller, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Woodrow Wilson, Helen Keller, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Neil Armstrong. Identifying the one to come next in the sequence turned out to be like searching for an element in the periodic table that should be there but isn’t — at least not yet. I will take pains, therefore, to examine only the “formula” for this missing hero. In the days and weeks following 9/11, a world horrified by the ... by Charles French

Choices Matter — So Where Are They?

Everywhere you look on the national political scene, you hear concerns regarding the health of American democracy. A decline in democratic institutions due to increased political polarization, partisan pressure on elections, such as current gerrymandering efforts in Texas, and growing inequalities in wealth and influence are often cited as threats to a thriving democracy. We have seen restrictions on voter access and politicization of election administration, expansions of executive power, increased partisan conflicts, the growing cost of campaigns, and the impact of special interests. Public trust in government has also decreased, with many feeling their representatives do not truly reflect ... by Fred W. Thiele Jr.