Amber Waves Farm will host a community dig at which guests have been invited to dig and harvest dahlia tubers from its farm fields on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.
Originally planted five years ago, the tubers have multiplied and propagated to number more than 15,000, providing years of flowers to thousands of Amber Waves guests.
Farming apprentice graduates have also received tubers to plant in their own farms across the country. The cost is $10.
In his new book, “The Angry Skies: A Physician’s Journey Into Cambodia’s Heart of Darkness,” Dr. Blake Kerr writes of his six trips to Cambodia, traveling to Khmer Rouge enclaves, meeting some of the architects of the genocide, and gathering information from victims and perpetrators of the atrocities there.
A theme of “Keep Calm and Carry On” may seem incongruous with the barrage of dire environmental statistics, but the 2025 State of the Bays report on Long Island’s waterways, delivered by Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, did include some encouraging though smaller-scale developments.
The Montauk Library’s 2025-26 operating budget passed 93 to 16.
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