Hakamé! Greetings from Shinnecock. Sometimes you can just look at someone’s face and tell what a sweet, kind and loving soul it encompasses—that is what we will miss about Daryl... more
The Town of Southampton Youth Bureau has two exciting programs planned for local children this month. Dance With Project LEAP In partnership with the Peconic Ballet Foundation, Dance with Project LEAP (Learn, Empower, Achieve, Perform) is a fun ballet program for youth ages 7 to 9. Classes begin Thursday, November 6, and will meet on most Thursdays through May 30. Professional instructors will guide participants through ballet fundamentals while fostering fitness, self-confidence, creativity, and teamwork. No prior dance experience is required. Classes run from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. at the Flanders Youth Center, 655 Flanders Road. The cost is $40 ...
by Staff Writer
The Children’s Museum of the East End (CMEE) will host an art opening reception with CITYarts on Saturday, November 15, from 10 a.m. to noon. The event celebrates CITYarts’ Pieces for Peace project, which invites young people from around the world to create art reflecting their vision of peace. To date, more than 12,000 artworks have been collected from 126 countries across six continents, and a selection will be on display at CMEE during the opening and throughout the fall exhibition. Children ages 4 to 12 are also invited to create their own “Piece for Peace” during the event and ...
by Staff Writer
MONTAUK The Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation will hold its annual flag ceremony in honor of veterans on Tuesday, November 11, at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, 240 Edgemere Street. The ceremony will begin at 11 a.m. at the Suzanne Koch Gosman Flagpole Garden at the center and will feature the raising of the flag and a wreath-laying ceremony by local Scout troops. Light refreshments will be served outdoors following the ceremony. Veterans, as well as the entire community, are invited to attend the ceremony, which will go on, rain or shine. EAST HAMPTON | AMAGANSETT The Veterans of Foreign ...
30 Oct 2025 by Staff Writer
In the parking area, a photographer pulls her gear from the back of her car. A second woman stands nearby. She must be the one who hired the photographer, because she’s holding a perfect little baby in her arms as she explains, “So now we’ve gotten past that.” The photographer nods, shouldering the heavy bag, and they advance toward the beach entrance. A young man has been impatiently pacing, waiting for them. His lanky frame, dressed neat as a pin, forced to be ready for picture day, turns and kicks at the sand. Not with curiosity, not with affection, but ...
28 Oct 2025 by Marilee Foster
It started here in Suffolk County in 1988: the passage of one of the first laws in the United States to ban plastic food packaging. Authored by Suffolk County Legislator Steven Englebright, prohibitions on polystyrene foam food packaging then spread from Suffolk County to cities, counties and other jurisdictions across the nation. The ban was enacted when a Democratic-Republican coalition of especially environmentally committed legislators held a majority on the Suffolk Legislature in the 1980s. The oil and gas industries and trade groups, led by the Society of the Plastics Industry, headquartered in Washington, D.C., fought the passage of the ...
by Karl Grossman
By Ella Gatfield Under exceptionally good viewing conditions, if a person has 20/20 vision, they can see the Triangulum Galaxy. At around 3 million light-years away, it is thought to be one of the farthest objects visible from Earth by the human eye. If I look to the horizon from land or water, with an unobstructed view, I can see only a few miles into the distance. Bound by this irregularly shaped ellipsoid, everything past the horizon line curves out of view. Wishful, I look to the night sky, then I sigh — releasing atoms of carbon into the world. ...
27 Oct 2025 by Ella Gatfield
The Southampton Artists Association will host a reception and art exhibit to benefit Heart of the Hamptons on Sunday, November 2, at the Southampton Cultural Center. Last year, the Southampton Artists Association raised enough money to provide more than 2,500 meals through Heart of the Hamptons, which provides a safety net of food and other vital services to over 4,500 local residents in need. This year 600,000 meals have been distributed. The Southampton Artists Association members are offering 10-inch-by-10-inch works of art to be sold at $200 each. Heart of the Hamptons will receive half of the proceeds. One sale ...
by Staff Writer
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on Jan 10, 2012