Barrett Whitman Jr., a retired Grumman aeronautical engineer who lived in Montauk full time since 1988, died at home on Nov. 15. He was 95. An obituary will appear in a future issue.
You go to school to become a doctor. You become a human rights activist after climbing the first 22,000 feet of the Tibetan side of Mount Everest in a pair of sneakers and then stumbling across China’s military occupation of Tibet.
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 thought smaller-scale developments.
The Montauk Library’s 2025-26 operating budget passed 93 to 16.
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