Frederick S. Cheesman of East Hampton, who worked on historical texts and research material for university libraries in his career in publishing, died on Feb. 1 at NYU Langone Medical Center in Manhattan of complications of acute myeloid leukemia. He was 77.
Joseph A. McDonald, a Montauk native and department manager at Stop and Shop in East Hampton for many years, died on Friday at a medical facility in Manhattan. He was 63 and had cancer.
East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old baseball and softball all-star teams are on quests to win District 36 tournaments, and good things are expected.
On the night of June 14 almost 100 East Hampton High School athletes, which is to say about half the class of 2023, were honored at a senior awards dinner in the school’s cafeteria.
Two natives of Ethiopia now living in the Bronx were the male and female winners of Saturday’s 44th Shelter Island 10K. Earlier that day, a native of Belarus who lives in Southampton topped the men’s field in the Beacon of Hope 5K at the Montauk Lighthouse.
Given all of the supersize stripers now in Montauk, it’s still not too late to enter the popular Montauk Surf Masters Spring Shootout, which concludes on July 9. Bigger fish are clearly on the feed here.
From a shotgun-wielding skirmish in the Prohibition wars of 1923 to the momentous day in 1998 when Suffolk County banned smoking in bars, it happened here.
For the first time, lifeguards at East Hampton Main Beach will have the ability to fly a drone to help pinpoint swimmers in distress.
Political ties run deep in Suffolk County, and there has been speculation that an old-boy network is behind the extraordinary fines a State Supreme Court justice has imposed on the town.
It had been missing for nearly a year, so when I found my wallet at the bottom of a bag of life jackets earlier this week I felt like a dope.
