The most detailed justification to date of the size, design, and cost of East Hampton Town’s new senior citizens center was aired before the town board on Tuesday, as several residents continued to question and voice skepticism about the need for a 22,000-square-foot, $31.6 million building.
Anxious Sag Harbor residents did not get to have their say on Adam Potter’s 11 Bridge Street L.L.C. project this week, but there was news of a smaller plan at another property owned by Mr. Potter, where Michael Gluckman and his wife, Lila Beudert-Gluckman, are hoping to create a 23-seat “Smashburger”-style restaurant.
Cole Brauer, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who last summer became the first female sailor to the win the Bermuda One-Two, was as of last Thursday sitting in second place in the Global Solo Challenge, an around-the-world singlehanded sailing race that for her began on Oct. 29, when she set forth aboard First Light from A Coruña, Spain.
Last week was a big one for Alex Davis, a Bridgehampton High School sophomore who scored his 1,000th point during a 64-52 loss to the Ross School. Plus Bonac and Pierson hoops reports.
East Hampton High’s girls winter tracksters went to the maximum at the League 3 meet in Brentwood, while the boys swimming and girls basketball teams are in the thick of it.
From Pierson’s hardwood “cardiac kids” to a sneaker designer from Springs, it happened here, sports fans.
All the local sports action ahead . . .
Reader Comment: The Week That Was.
You have to feel a little sorry for Nick LaLota, a first-term member of Congress who would like to return to Washington and can’t risk upsetting the party’s meal ticket.
Governor Hochul’s new Resilient and Ready program recycles old ideas — resiliency implies bounceback, and this sends the wrong message when all attention must instead be focused on retreat.
