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Hamptons United, at hamptonsunited.org, was launched with nine charities “doing critical work on the East End through the collection and distribution of financial donations and acts of kindness." It now hosts 14 organizations, and more are being evaluated for inclusion.

Before Suffolk County can safely begin to emerge from the Covid-19 lockdown, an expansive contact tracing program designed to contain future outbreaks by identifying, monitoring, and isolating those who come in contact with someone infected must be in place.

We’ve been thrust into a surreal crisis filled with uncertainty and fear. Without effective coping strategies that enable us to adapt, it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Here are a few.

Using Airbnb is out, enlisting a savvy broker is in. Short-term bookings are out, long-term stays are in. Standard leases are out, customized ones with Covid-19 riders are in.

“We in E.M.S. are completely in the dark on what the plan is for the coming months and what to expect,” the Montauk Ambulance Company wrote in a letter to the town board. “We need clarity and, more importantly, to have our thoughts heard.”

Due to concerns about the economic impact the Covid-19 pandemic may have on East Hampton Village’s finances, village board members made it clear last Thursday that they will adopt a budget for the next fiscal year that will prohibit spending on any major capital improvements, public works projects, or equipment upgrades.

Stony Brook University Hospital and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital have devised ways to give voice to their Covid-19 patients and help keep them in touch with their families.

Waiting out the pandemic on the South Fork, three teens saw a need, turned their concern into action, and partnered with an Amagansett church to come to the aid of people "struggling to support their families."

Slow Food East End, which promotes local food producers and artisans, announced this week that it will donate $15,000 to the region’s food pantries.

Two measures of Long Island’s progress toward reopening the economy appear to be at odds, but one thing is for certain at this point: When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s Pause order expires tomorrow, Long Island will not be ready to fully reopen despite what is thought to be the waning impact of Covid-19 in New York State.

East Hampton’s formidable population of “older adults” is characterized, among many traits, by resilience, and that can serve them well in the face of a pandemic.

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, founded in 2006 by the musician John Bongiovi Jr., a.k.a. Jon Bon Jovi, to address hunger and homelessness in the United States, is establishing a food bank to supply and deliver food to a central location in East Hampton Town for distribution to its food pantries.

East Hampton Village Mayor Richard Lawler plans to appoint Ray Harden to a seat on the village board on Friday, he said in an interview on Wednesday.

The number of Covid-19 patients in Suffolk County hospitals increased by 10 on Monday, and a number from Tuesday was not yet available. The increase may just be a "one day thing," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at his daily briefing.

"It's been a very rough couple of months -- but at least now there's a sliver of light," said Claude Okin, who owns the Sportime club in Amagansett and numerous other tennis clubs in the metro area.

The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously last Thursday to add business district hamlet studies to the town's comprehensive plan, leaving out a controversial long-range plan to relocate Montauk's oceanfront motels and other businesses.

El viernes pasado, las autoridades anunciaron que con 694 casos nuevos en las 24 horas previas, el condado de Suffolk ya sumaba un total de 40.483 casos de personas que han dado positivo para la prueba de Covid-19. De ese total, 3.961 han dado positivo para la prueba de anticuerpos, lo cual indica una exposición anterior al virus.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced over the last several days key initiatives including an investigation into the impacts of Covid-19 on children and an extension of the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse to file claims.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said the county now meets four of the seven criteria necessary for reopening, but will not be ready to do so by Friday, the day the PAUSE order ends.

Este viernes pasado el Supervisor de East Hampton Town, Peter Van Scoyoc, anunció que se abrirá un nuevo sitio de testeo para Covid-19 en el pueblo de East Hampton. Proyectado para entrar en funcionamiento el viernes 15 de mayo, el sitio estará ubicado en los estacionamientos de los campos deportivos de Pantigo Place.

A Covid-19 testing site is expected to begin operation at parking lots by the ball fields on Pantigo Place in East Hampton on Friday, May 15, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced on Friday. 

The New York State Department of Transportation has proposed allocating $13.1 million of state money to repave nearly eight miles of Route 114 next year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle announced on Thursday. 

On a day when Suffolk's Covid-19 cases topped 40,000, county executive laments that World War II veterans, the most vulnerable to the virus, cannot be celebrated with public expressions of appreciation.

Man shall not live by bread alone. Alone in quarantine, however, man seems to live for bread, and East End bakeries are in overdrive working to satisfy that hunger and provide other small pleasures of the sweet variety.

David Falkowski, who has operated his Bridgehampton farm, Open Minded Organics, since 2003, has become a bit of a roadside philosopher during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we could all use a little of his sound and uplifting advice.

Health experts say it’s still too early to gauge with absolute certainty the impact of antibodies on Covid-19 and whether they will guard against reinfection long term, “but we have to hang our hat on something,” said Dr. George Dempsey of East Hampton Family Medicine.

The number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in Suffolk County decreased by 54 on Thursday. "Hopefully this means we're back on our downward trend," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at his daily briefing. 

Cyril R. Fitzsimons, an Irish barkeep whose duneside roadhouse on the Napeague stretch lives on in memory as an emblem of carefree summers past — when the rum flowed and sunburned people sang along to the sweet pulse of a steel-pan band — died on April 24 from complications of Covid-19.

“The nursing home is the optimum feeding ground for this virus: vulnerable people in a congregate facility . . . where it can spread like wildfire through dry grass,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said. That is proving to be true on the East End and across the country.

The committee agreed at its first meeting last week to “make sure we don’t have a second wave” of Covid-19 infection “by opening too soon, by being careless when we open, by not looking at social distancing,” said Deputy Town Supervisor Sylvia Overby.