At a loss as to what to do with ashes from your fireplace or woodstove? Share the Harvest Farm has an answer.
On Jan. 21, the farm will accept wood ash, also known as potash, between 1 and 4 p.m. The ash, a source of calcium, potassium, and phosphorous, can be used to enrich the soil and raise its pH.
The farm asks that people take only ash "that has not been exposed to fuel or fire starter logs with wood preservatives."
When it comes to at-home care on the East End, those who need help are finding it, well, hard to find. Factors like long driving distances to reach clients and a perceived lack of competitive wages for aides make the home nursing field challenging to navigate from both perspectives.
When she heard that other municipalities had ceased holding Bingo games with money on the line, Diane Patrizio, East Hampton Town's director of human services, decided to check on East Hampton's own license to conduct the game at its senior center. She discovered that the license had expired.
“One of the things that I struggle with is people saying the AIDS crisis is a thing of the past, as if the time to remember is something for the past,” said Tom House, the founder of Hamptons Pride, which is bringing quilts from the National AIDS Memorial to the East Hampton Presbyterian Church next week.
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