Villages

A postcard from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows the house known as "the Chalet" off James Lane in East Hampton.

Nia Dawson, 22, Black, and a third-generation Bridgehampton native, found herself in the midst of what she believed was a racially-fueled incident outside the Sag Harbor Launderette in August. Angered, upset, but not shocked, it led her to galvanize family members, friends, and notable figures in the community to form an organization called Exposing Inequities in the Hamptons.

When he began donating such Tapovana Lunch Box offerings as vegetarian curries, soups, chutneys, coconut quinoa rice, and hydrating elixirs to the Bridgehampton Child Care Center's food pantry in January, Corey De Rosa, who has been working out of a fully-remodeled kitchen at the Bridgehampton Community House since January, wondered how the South Indian food would be received.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton welcomed a new curate last month. The Rev. Joseph L. Cundiff IV has been assisting the Very Rev. Denis C. Brunelle for almost eight weeks now in an apprentice position.

While new recommendations released last week on Covid-19 booster shots for at-risk populations are not a broad suggestion that all vaccinated people get a booster, they do extend the recommendation to a great many people.

Kimberly Quarty and Damon A. Hagan of East Quogue were married on Sept. 25 at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

From The East Hampton Star this week in 1896, 1921, 1946, 1971, and 1996

A proposal to replace the WLNG radio tower in Sag Harbor Village with a cellphone tower is facing fierce opposition from neighbors.

More than two years after Drew Bennett, a town engineer, submitted a recommendation for repairs at the Springs Library, nothing has been done, the library’s trustees wrote on Oct. 9 to Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc.

Sag Harbor Village Mayor James Larocca put his stamp on the effort to develop a new zoning code for the village’s waterfront properties with a proposal that would expand the area covered by the code, create building regulations that preserve the village’s unique character, and require those seeking to build structures larger than 3,500 square feet to receive permission from the village board.

Once upon a time in The Star . . .

East Hampton Town will honor the late Lt. Lee A. Hayes, a member of the 477th Bombardment Group of the Tuskegee Airmen, on Sunday when the Amagansett Youth Park is formally renamed for him.