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Community News, October 21

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Residents of Clearwater in Springs gathered at Clearwater Beach's Sun Shed on October 13 to show their appreciation to Dell Cullum. Accabonac Protection Committee President Patrice Dalton presented Dell the A.P.C.'s "Friend of the Creek Award" "In recognition of his years as a steadfast protector of the wildlife of the Creek." RICHARD LEWIN

The Special Olympics torch was carried from Montauk to East Hampton on Thursday in preparation for the New York State Games, which will be held in Glens Falls, New York on Friday and Saturday. REBECCA HOFFMAN/SPECIAL OLYMPICS

Kimberly Dautenhahn, John Raio and Lucy at the Montauk Brewing Company for the release of the special limited edition "PAWESOME Double India Pale Ale, Brewed In Support of Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons". A percentage of proceeds from sales of tap and 4-packs is being donated to support the efforts of ARF. www.arfhamptons.org RICHARD LEWIN

Steve Long with his sons Grant and Bennett at the East Hampton Historical Society's third annual Amagansett Maritime Heritage Day on Saturday. Besides free admission to the Marine Museum, visitors enjoyed three floors of fun, including crafts for children, the Museum's exhibits, Plein Air painting and pirate-themed selfies. Barbara Borsack read from her children's book "Keeping the Montauk Light". Other related events included Open House at the East End Classic Boat Society, and, at Amagansett Free Library, a scavenger hunt organized by Jackie Marks and Evan Harris. RICHARD LEWIN

EAST END Southampton Town To Provide Free Civil Service Test Prep Workshop The Southampton Town Affirmative Action Task Force and the Town of Southampton will offer a free Civil Service... more

Can’t Harvest It All

Here we are again, going into the shortest days with seed catalogs arriving and the beginning fantasy of spring. This, while we are still deep in this season. We’re still shoveling potatoes out of storage, still pulling carrots, cutting cabbage, cauliflower and kale. Brassicas show up on the menus of Ancient Greeks, but our consumption of kale probably predates civilization and may well have eclipsed it, too. It’s a big family of leafy greens that is as nutritious as it is versatile. Whereas something like a tomato is a haughty and demanding crop, the brassicas are conciliatory and try hard ... 7 Dec 2021 by Marilee Foster

VIEWPOINT: To Tell The Truth? That’s Open To Interpretation

There are quite a few synonyms for the word “interpretation.” All of them are used to explain an understanding of something, so that’s why everyone has a different way of making sense of written or spoken words, sentences, expressions, circumstances, facts. If a child does something and then makes an effort to convince everybody that he didn’t do it, he only makes us smile. The tangible proof of his guilt is visible on his face and his hands, but instead of being angry at his behavior, we silently agree with him — and we are proud that he is so ... 6 Dec 2021 by Ryszard Krasowski

‘Get Out Of The Way’

The move referred to repeatedly as a “solar tax” by speakers at Long Island Power Authority public hearings last week was lambasted by them. The New York State Public Service Commission earlier this year began seeking a new charge for those who install solar panels after January 1, 2022. They would have to pay a monthly charge of between $5 and $10 per month depending on the size of their solar installations. The PSC has termed the charge a “customer benefit contribution,” or CBC. LIPA, in a “Customer Benefit Fact Sheet” it has posted online, says that “LIPA’s staff supports ... by Karl Grossman

I Read The News Today, Oh Boy

There is a part of me that is seriously considering a news boycott. I can’t stop things from happening, but I don’t have to know about them right away, or maybe at all. Such a boycott would bother me a lot, because there remains ink in my veins, and reporting and writing about news events have comprised a big part of my life. I embrace being informed. But lately, it’s been like the line the sheriff, Ed Tom Bell (played by Tommy Lee Jones), utters in “No Country for Old Men”: “I feel overmatched.” Maybe the problem is how disheartening ... by Tom Clavin

Vee and Bruce Bennett: A Sag Harbor Love Story

“The bad news is, time flies. The good news is, you’re the pilot.” — Michael ... by NANCY REMKUS

Community News, December 9

EAST HAMPTON TOWN Free Vaccines Available Two more COVID-19 vaccine clinics are planned in East ... by Staff Writer

School News, December 9

Belly Laughs All Around Jokes and laughter could be heard through the halls of Southampton ... by Staff Writer

The Sand Plan

With the Fire Island to Montauk Point, or FIMP, project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to be restarted in 2023, and it being what Kevin McAllister, president of the organization Defend H20, describes as now largely a “sand plan” — to dump sand along the 83 miles of the Suffolk County oceanfront — it would be instructive to consider the situation in another region. I began writing about the Army Corps’s FIMP plan when I started as a reporter in Suffolk County in 1962. Then, what was a new scheme also involved sand dumping. But a key feature ... 3 Dec 2021 by Karl Grossman

School News, December 2

Student Inducted To Honor Societies Seventy-seven Westhampton Beach High School seniors were inducted into the ... 2 Dec 2021 by Staff Writer

Candles, Lists And PC

I saw a friend from my old neighborhood at the supermarket recently. She had that harried look of someone who barely had time to complete a sentence. She yelled across the aisle, “Let’s do lunch soon!” “Definitely. After Christmas.” She laughed appreciatively and gave me two thumbs up. I added our date to my PC (post-Christmas) calendar, along with a museum visit, coffee with a college friend, and dinner with former work colleagues who, like me, are retired yet so damn busy. The length of my Christmas to-dos would rival any 6-year-old’s toy list. Making lists makes me feel organized. ... by Denise Gray Meehan