The Sweet Spot is starting the 2024-25 school year off by offering a 25-percent discount to students, teachers, bus drivers, and other school employees on Tuesday, the first day of school in the East Hampton School District.
"To the teachers who are getting ready to welcome your students to school today, we thank you," the ice cream and candy shop said on Instagram. "To the students, we wish you the best year ever!"
The Sweet Spot is located at 106 Newtown Lane.
The Shinnecock Canal remains open to limited boat traffic despite the failure of a hinge on one of the lock gates overnight on Tuesday. The county is discouraging all non-emergency boat traffic.
While East Hampton Town boasts some large, well-known, historic cemeteries, less visible are the smaller family cemeteries dotted throughout the area. Some have just a single headstone. They’re visited infrequently, the families buried are older, and a handful have fallen into disrepair. Last week, restoration was completed on two of the town’s smaller colonial-era cemeteries.
“People buy them from stores in the spring and then when they get big and messy, they no longer want them,” said Adrienne Gillespie, the hospital supervisor at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Refuge in Hampton Bays. “They find local ponds thinking they can survive, but they can’t for long.”
Your support for The East Hampton Star helps us deliver the news, arts, and community information you need. Whether you are an online subscriber, get the paper in the mail, delivered to your door in Manhattan, or are just passing through, every reader counts. We value you for being part of The Star family.
Your subscription to The Star does more than get you great arts, news, sports, and outdoors stories. It makes everything we do possible.