Virtual Tour of the Summer Night Sky
The Accabonac Protection Committee and the Hamptons Observatory will host a virtual sky-watching event on Monday evening.
‘Artemis Fowl’ Screening, All for the East End
All for the East End's Feed the Need Campaign will be the beneficiary of a two-night drive-in screening of the new Disney movie "Artemis Fowl" on Friday and Saturday at the grounds of the Hampton Classic in Bridgehampton.
Gerald Stanley, 95
Gerald Thomas Stanley, who owned and operated Stanley and Son residential refuse service and G.T. Stanley cesspool service in East Hampton, died on May 26 in Canandaigua, N.Y. He was 95.
Isabel M. Spear, 96
Isabel Margaret Rickard Spear died at home in East Hampton on May 30, with her daughters, Min Spear Hefner and Kay Spear Gibson, at her bedside. She was 96.
Born on March 1, 1924, in Sherborne in the county of Dorset, England, to Mabel and Reginald Rickard, she was one of six children. As a young girl she attended Lord Digby's School.
Beverly B. Smith, 86
Beverly B. Smith of Amagansett and Manhattan died at Lenox Hill Hospital there on May 23. She was 86 and had taken ill with pancreatitis two and a half weeks prior to her death.
A summer resident of Amagansett since 1958, Mrs. Smith had been coming to the East End for many years to visit family members in Southampton. She married Roger Smith in 1956 and in 1960 they bought the same house they had first rented in 1958. Mr. Smith died in 1980.
Johanna E. Veiga, 88
Johanna E. Veiga of East Hampton died at home of respiratory failure on May 24, surrounded by her extended family and her companion of 45 years, Carol Ann Crasson.
Wind Farm Soil Work a Go
The town board voted to allow surveying for the transmission cable landing site in Wainscott.
Route 114 to Be Repaved in 2021 From East Hampton to North Haven
The New York State Department of Transportation will repave approximately eight miles of Route 114 between Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton and the South Ferry on North Haven, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle announced Tuesday.
Five Dems Vie for State Senate Nod
Five Democrats vying to represent District 1 in the New York State Senate faced off Monday night in a debate sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork. The incumbent, Kenneth P. LaValle, a Republican, announced his retirement in January after 44 years in office.
Bell Tower Rings Sour
A proposal from AT&T to build a 50-foot-high freestanding bell tower, or “campanile,” to house cellphone antennas at St. Peter’s Chapel on Old Stone Highway in Springs faced fierce opposition from the church’s neighbors during an East Hampton Town Planning Board public hearing on June 3.