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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.

East Hampton Village Mayor Richard Lawler plans to appoint Ray Harden to a seat on the village board on Friday, he said in an interview on Wednesday.

The Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation, founded in 2006 by the musician John Bongiovi Jr., a.k.a. Jon Bon Jovi, to address hunger and homelessness in the United States, is establishing a food bank to supply and deliver food to a central location in East Hampton Town for distribution to its food pantries.

The number of Covid-19 patients in Suffolk County hospitals increased by 10 on Monday, and a number from Tuesday was not yet available. The increase may just be a "one day thing," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at his daily briefing.

The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously last Thursday to add business district hamlet studies to the town's comprehensive plan, leaving out a controversial long-range plan to relocate Montauk's oceanfront motels and other businesses.

"It's been a very rough couple of months -- but at least now there's a sliver of light," said Claude Okin, who owns the Sportime club in Amagansett and numerous other tennis clubs in the metro area.

El viernes pasado, las autoridades anunciaron que con 694 casos nuevos en las 24 horas previas, el condado de Suffolk ya sumaba un total de 40.483 casos de personas que han dado positivo para la prueba de Covid-19. De ese total, 3.961 han dado positivo para la prueba de anticuerpos, lo cual indica una exposición anterior al virus.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced over the last several days key initiatives including an investigation into the impacts of Covid-19 on children and an extension of the statute of limitations for victims of child sex abuse to file claims.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone said the county now meets four of the seven criteria necessary for reopening, but will not be ready to do so by Friday, the day the PAUSE order ends.

Este viernes pasado el Supervisor de East Hampton Town, Peter Van Scoyoc, anunció que se abrirá un nuevo sitio de testeo para Covid-19 en el pueblo de East Hampton. Proyectado para entrar en funcionamiento el viernes 15 de mayo, el sitio estará ubicado en los estacionamientos de los campos deportivos de Pantigo Place.

On a day when Suffolk's Covid-19 cases topped 40,000, county executive laments that World War II veterans, the most vulnerable to the virus, cannot be celebrated with public expressions of appreciation.

A Covid-19 testing site is expected to begin operation at parking lots by the ball fields on Pantigo Place in East Hampton on Friday, May 15, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced on Friday. 

The New York State Department of Transportation has proposed allocating $13.1 million of state money to repave nearly eight miles of Route 114 next year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. and State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle announced on Thursday. 

Despite below normal water temperatures, things are starting to open up on the fishing front at least, especially in areas west of Montauk.

“The nursing home is the optimum feeding ground for this virus: vulnerable people in a congregate facility . . . where it can spread like wildfire through dry grass,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said. That is proving to be true on the East End and across the country.

What is particularly interesting about this storm is that there was little to no warning for those in its path.

Fitness studios here have been offering online personal and group training sessions since the early days of the Covid-19 shutdown, and given the uncertainty of the coming months, they’re likely to continue doing so for the foreseeable future.   

The committee agreed at its first meeting last week to “make sure we don’t have a second wave” of Covid-19 infection “by opening too soon, by being careless when we open, by not looking at social distancing,” said Deputy Town Supervisor Sylvia Overby.

Man shall not live by bread alone. Alone in quarantine, however, man seems to live for bread, and East End bakeries are in overdrive working to satisfy that hunger and provide other small pleasures of the sweet variety.

As East End hotels prepare to welcome summer guests in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the new must-have amenities will include face masks made from luxurious fabric, chic dispensers for hand sanitizer, body temperature scanners, aesthetically pleasing dividers to ensure people maintain six feet of social distance, and other items that allow people to feel safe and pampered.

With school closures extended through the end of the academic year, educators are beginning to consider what the opening of next year might look like.

The number of Covid-19 hospitalizations in Suffolk County decreased by 54 on Thursday. "Hopefully this means we're back on our downward trend," said Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone at his daily briefing. 

As a means of offering gratitude to the health care workers during the coronavirus pandemic, WLNG is “roadcasting,” taking its Rolling Roadcaster bus to the East End’s hospitals.

Health experts say it’s still too early to gauge with absolute certainty the impact of antibodies on Covid-19 and whether they will guard against reinfection long term, “but we have to hang our hat on something,” said Dr. George Dempsey of East Hampton Family Medicine.

David Falkowski, who has operated his Bridgehampton farm, Open Minded Organics, since 2003, has become a bit of a roadside philosopher during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we could all use a little of his sound and uplifting advice.

A range of services and study opportunities are available at jcoh.org/live, the web presence of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.

Cyril R. Fitzsimons, an Irish barkeep whose duneside roadhouse on the Napeague stretch lives on in memory as an emblem of carefree summers past — when the rum flowed and sunburned people sang along to the sweet pulse of a steel-pan band — died on April 24 from complications of Covid-19.

The number of Covid-19 patients in Suffolk County hospitals dropped significantly Wednesday after a two-day rise, down 62, according to Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone.

For the second day in a row, the number of patients hospitalized with confirmed Covid-19 cases in Suffolk County rose, though the county still met a 14-day decline in overall hospitalizations based on a three-day rolling average of that figure.

In an effort to limit the number of people at East Hampton Village beaches, the village announced on Monday that beach parking permits will be required and no daily parking passes will be issued starting May 15.