Visiting hours for Christian Gutierrez, a 21-year-old East Hampton man who died in a motorcycle crash on Sunday, will take place tomorrow at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton from 3 to 9 p.m. A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Most Holy Trinity Parish Center on Buell Lane, with burial to follow at the church’s cemetery on Cedar Street.
An obituary will appear in a future issue.
Most people go to the Elizabeth Morton Wildlife Refuge in Noyac, part of the National Wildlife Refuge system, to feed the birds. There, black-capped chickadees and tufted titmice, for better or worse, have been trained to accept seeds from human hands. On Saturday, however, 15 people showed up instead to rip invasive plants out of the ground.
If you had to guess where a jungle was located in Springs, where would you say it was? If you guessed Fort Pond Boulevard, you would be correct. That’s where Jungle Pete’s once stood, an eatery and watering hole that served countless Springs residents, including the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.
Stepping into the new Sagaponack General Store, which reopened yesterday after being closed since 2020, is a sweet experience, and not just because there’s a soft-serve ice cream station on the left and what promises to be the biggest penny candy selection on the South Fork on your right, but because it’s like seeing an old friend who, after some struggle, made it big. Really, really big.
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