Villages

With demand for Covid-19 vaccinations continuing to be high, East Hampton Town has added several additional vaccination clinics to its calendar this month. 

Once upon a time in The Star . . .

It’s not uncommon after a holiday break like the Thanksgiving one we just enjoyed for patients to mention to me that they gained five or six pounds thanks to hefty holiday meals. Indeed, New Year’s resolutions being just around the corner occupy a significant place in the American health psyche as people scramble to get back on track with regard to healthful food and exercise choices.

People seeking Covid-19 vaccines have two new upcoming opportunities at East Hampton Town Hall: on Monday and Wednesday. Appointments for clinics later in the month are already spoken for.

This week’s item features the Garden Club of East Hampton’s program from its first season, 1915. It lists the club’s officers and their planned events, including the club’s first flower show.

In a new column about birds, The Star's Christopher Gangemi discusses the "spark bird," that bird that first makes you notice birds in general, sparking a deeper curiosity about the many birds around you. His, in December of 2001, was the tufted titmouse.

Arielle Hessler, the new director of the Amagansett Library arrives in Amagansett having spent the last three years at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, first as an emerging-technologies librarian and then as program and outreach coordinator.

“Soldiers, Sailors From Here On Duty in War-Hit Hawaii” was how the Pearl Harbor attack, 80 years ago next week, was reported in The Star. Nineteen men and three women from East Hampton were believed to have been stationed in or near Honolulu, Hawaii, when the bombing began.

The page will be turned in another chapter in old-time Bonacker history soon, when Capt. Harvey Bennett, who has spent a good part of the past 70 years on the water catching fish and shellfish and in the field pursuing deer, turkey, ducks, and other fowl, closes his popular bait and tackle store in Amagansett.

One of our best resources for traditional local recipes is our collection of cookbooks compiled by the Ladies Village Improvement Society, something its members have been doing for 125 years now.

Sag Harbor’s John Jermain Memorial Library announced that Kelly Harris, for many years the director of the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton, would take over as its new executive director, effective Jan. 3.

While the headlines about the miserable state of American retail continued to mount postsummer, something extraordinary was happening at the Bridgehampton Commons. The Retreat Boutique, the thrift store offshoot of the Retreat, an East Hampton domestic violence shelter, posted end-of-summer takings of over $200,000 — its largest to date.