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Slow Food's Donations for Food Pantries and Farmers

Wed, 05/13/2020 - 10:54

Slow Food East End, which promotes local food producers and artisans, announced this week that it will donate $15,000 to the region’s food pantries, and offer grants of $500 to $1,000 to farmers, seafood harvesters, and other food providers who have been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

The group is also donating $1,000 to restaurants, food stores, and farms that have earned its Snail of Approval award for their commitment to producing good, healthy, local food in environmentally-friendly ways. 

Villages

Item of the Week: The MacKay Twins at Play, 1892

This cyanotype photograph shows Dorothy MacKay and Ruth MacKay, the twin daughters of Emily McIlvaine DuBois MacKay and the Rev. William Richard MacKay, playing on the gate to their house on Cottage Avenue.

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An East Hampton Tradition: St. Luke’s Summer Fair

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s annual summer fair — its 140th! — happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

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Beach Signs for the Instagram Era

New signs were installed last week at the three lifeguarded East Hampton Village beaches: Main, Georgica, and Two Mile Hollow. They were designed by Emma Edwards, the 21-year-old owner of Dama Creative Solutions.

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