The scientific name of the whip-poor-will, Antrostomus vociferus, is spot-on. According to “Birds of America,” edited by T. Gilbert Pearson, “the first word . . . means ‘cave mouth’ and the second . . . ‘strong voice.’ ”
The Montauk Airport will remain open as an airport, its new director and general manager, Neil Blainey, said this week, and there are no plans to change that status.
At the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals meeting on June 17, Acacia L.L.C., the owner of 8 Marina Lane, asked to reopen its application for a sunken tennis court.
This photograph shows members of Dayton Hedges’s (1884-1957) family attending a tea ceremony on Aug. 21, 1953, in the East Hampton Library’s courtyard as part of the dedication of the library’s Hedges Room.
Andrew Volet, a fashion-industry executive turned East Hampton real estate agent who lived on Accabonac Road, died on June 19 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was cancer. He was 87.
Laurie Nell Frick of Springs, a singer with the Choral Society of the Hamptons, died on June 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 79.
Esther Keller, formerly of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 16 at the Trustbridge Hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., just a few days shy of her 95th birthday.
Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, who established the Bridgehampton School's agricultural education program, was named New York State's agriculture teacher of the year, and received a national award for excellence from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2016, is retiring from the school after the board voted last month to eliminate her position.
During Monday's meeting of the East Hampton Town Trustees, John Aldred briefed his colleagues on a June 14 count of mosquito larvae in Accabonac Harbor, where a pilot program to sample larvae has led to a reduction in the use of methoprene, a larvicide, by the Suffolk County Department of Public Works’ Division of Vector Control.
Following a Supreme Court ruling that lets states set their own abortion laws, the world's richest and most powerful democracy joined one of the poorest countries in the continental Americas (Nicaragua), the smallest country in Central America (El Salvador), and an ultranationalist Poland to become only the fourth country in the Western world where abortion care is widely banned.
