Bonac Festival of Lights Returns for Holiday Season
Staff Writer on Nov 4, 2024
The Bonac Festival of Lights will return for the 2024 holiday season. Hosted by the East Hampton Masonic Lodge, Star of the East No. 843, the show will be on... more
The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation is offering a series of hikes to observe wintering seals at Montauk Point State Park. Beginning this month and continuing through April 2025, a State Park naturalist will lead visitors on a scenic beach walk to an area where up to five species of seals may be observed. Along the hike, there will be opportunities to see many winter birds and to explore marine geology. Binoculars are helpful. Hikers should meet at the office/restroom building in the lower parking lot 10 minutes before the start time. Clothing appropriate for ...
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Our Fabulous Variety Show will host a Disney Singalong fundraiser on Friday, November 22, from 6 to 9 p.m. at LTV Studios, 75 Industrial Road in Wainscott. All are invited to come sing a favorite Disney song via karaoke. The event will support dancers who will perform at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, in June. OFVS is heading back to Walt Disney World for its third performance with the Disney Imagination Campus, an audition-based public performance opportunity in which students become honorary cast members for the day and perform at the Waterfront Stage in Disney Springs for an international ...
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Outstanding graduates of New York area community colleges are eligible to receive scholarships to complete bachelor’s degrees at New York University’s College of Arts & Science, through scholarships from the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation. The Joseph R. Attonito CCTOP Scholarship is awarded to students who matriculate at CAS through NYU’s Community College Transfer Opportunity Program. Attonito, who died in 2024, served as a trustee of the Gardiner Foundation. Over the next five years, 20 selected scholars will receive $25,000 in each of their two years at CAS. Scholarship recipients devote a portion of their studies to the culture and ...
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The Hamptons Observatory is partnering with Suffolk County Community College to present a free virtual lecture by Dr. Madhulika “Lika” Guhathakurta, NASA senior advisor for new initiatives. Sean Tvelia, academic chair of Physical Sciences at Suffolk County Community College and a founding board member of Hamptons Observatory, will serve as moderator of the event. Guhathakurta will discuss heliophysics, also known as “space weather,” and how the “Living With a Star” program targets specific aspects of the sun-earth system that affect life and society. Practitioners of disciplines like solar physics, geophysics, atmospheric physics, cosmic ray physics and magnetohydrodynamics have collaborated in ...
28 Oct 2024 by Staff Writer
Sag Harbor Cinema has launched its Lighthouse Project, a year-round film and discussion series that illuminates mental health awareness, advocacy and action. The series, which kicks off on Sunday, November 3, will be free and open to the public, and will offer equitable access to mental health information with expert-led panel discussions. Its goal is to demystify, to destigmatize, and to promote knowledge about mental disorders, and to disseminate information about their treatment using film as an entry point for discussion, noted a press release. The Sunday event, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., will focus on adolescent mental health. ...
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A Gofundme page has been created for Noelle Parker, known to many as “Noodle,” who has become seriously ill. She contracted pneumonia, which led to sepsis and sepsis shock. She was sedated and on a ventilator for three weeks. Currently, she is in stable but critical condition. An active volunteer with the Animal Rescue Fund, she is an acting coach at Bay Street Theater and a pet sitter/dog walker. The recent illness comes on the heels of past medical struggles from which she was just financially recovering. Those who wish to donate can search for “Noelle Parker” at gofundme.com.
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To get into the spirit of the season, the first-ever Spooky-Palooza! is coming to Sag Harbor. The collaborative event between Sag Harbor Cinema, The Church, and Bay Street Theater will take place on Saturday, October 26, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The family fun starts at 11 a.m. at the Sag Harbor Cinema for a screening of “The Addams Family.” Spooky creative fun follows at The Church, before the costume contest and party at Bay Street Theater at 3 p.m. Afterward participating restaurants in the village are offering discounts to those who attending the Spooky Palooza. For more information, ...
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The Old Whalers’ Church in Sag Harbor will honor those in the community who have died this year with a Day of Remembrance Service on Sunday, October 27, at 10 a.m. During the service, names will be called, a bell will be tolled and a candle will be lit for each person who has died. There will be readings and prayers. Those who wish to have a loved one remembered, should call the church office at 631-725-0894. All are welcome to the service.
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Staff Writer on Nov 4, 2024