May 5, 1932 - Aug. 19, 2021
Word has reached The Star that Irene Feldt of East Hampton died of heart failure on Aug. 19. She was 89.
She was born on May 5, 1932, in New York City to Peter Maestrales and the former Catherine Kazmek. She and Fred H. Feldt were married in 1964; Mr. Feldt died in 2020.
Ms. Feldt was buried at Calverton National Cemetery in Wading River. She leaves no children, but is survived by her childhood friends Ethel Alchermes and Arlie Costine Scott.
The Bourbon virus, a potentially deadly tick-borne disease first discovered in 2014 in a man from Bourbon County, Kansas, has recently shown up in New York State, and the most common tick on the East End, the lone star tick, can spread it.
A widely circulated social media post last week from Craig O’Connell, host of Shark Week on the Discovery Channel, raised the possibility that an orca was spotted 10 nautical miles off the tip of Long Island.
Amagansett will see two large annual events on Saturday, both promising fun, food, and fellowship, although one will be bittersweet owing to the death this week of the hamlet’s unofficial mayor.
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