South Fork Wind Farm Delay Expected
A timeline that would make the 130-megawatt wind farm off Montauk operational by late 2022 will now not be met.
Schools Closed, Money Saved
While schools statewide are closed because of Covid-19, their employees are still being paid, but many are saving money in other areas.
Montauk School Will Replace Old Classrooms
The Montauk School is the next on the South Fork to explore a construction project. According to Jack Perna, the superintendent, the district has reached an agreement with an architect, John Tanzi, to replace the school’s three portable classrooms and storage room (which has doubled as a classroom), which date from September 1973. The plans are to install modular rooms that would be more permanent than their predecessors.
Bridgehampton School Construction Resumes
The extensive renovation and expansion at the Bridgehampton School, which was halted for a time because of the pandemic, has been deemed an essential construction project.
Cancer Counselors Remain on Call
Fighting Chance, the cancer resource agency based in Sag Harbor, will conduct a free online program on Tuesday at 4 p.m., with technical help from the East Hampton Library. The program, for anyone affected by cancer or with family or friends who are, will describe Fighting Chance's counseling services.
Meals for the Food Pantries
The owners of the Honest Man Restaurants, which include Nick and Toni’s, Rowdy Hall, Townline BBQ, Coche Comedor, and La Fondita, announced on Friday that they are teaming up with the East End Food Institute to prepare and deliver 400 family meals weekly -- enough to feed 1,600 individuals -- to the Springs Food Pantry and the Heart of the Hamptons food pantry in Southampton.
Staff from each organization will prepare the meals at the institute’s industrial kitchen.
Live From the Library
Gene Casey will give a live concert of roots music and originals Friday evening at 7 on the East Hampton Library's Facebook page.
How Will Sag Harbor Emerge From the Shutdown Safely?
The very things that have made Sag Harbor Village a popular destination — its mix of shops, restaurants, parks, and cultural institutions — will complicate the process of emerging from the Covid-19 shutdown.
Cheryl Bedini, 55, Java Nation Owner
Cheryl Bedini, who had trained to be a lawyer but returned to her beloved Sag Harbor for good in 1993 to open the Java Nation coffee roastery on Main Street with her husband, Andres Bedini, died on April 22 at home of a heart attack. She was 55.
Ken Weldon, Softball Legend
Fifty of those who played with and against Kenny Weldon in Amagansett’s slow-pitch softball league during the course of almost half a century turned out at the Terry King ball field’s parking lot Saturday afternoon to wish him a fond, final farewell as Mr. Weldon’s daughters, Christine Indeglia and Melissa Wallace, played Carly Simon’s “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” which had been his wish.