🌱 Patch AM: Town Seeks To Acquire 38.3 Acres At Former Sand Mine In Wainscott For Preservation, Municipal Needs

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In today's newsletter:

• East Hampton eyes major Wainscott sand mine purchase for parks, planning
• How a battery plant shutdown could affect East Hampton's drinking water.
• What Hollywood tale will East Hampton's Playwrights' Theatre unveil Saturday?

Also on today's calendar: 8th Annual Chowdah Chowdown 🍲 and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What is clean when it is black and dirty when it is white? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Thursday: Mostly sunny and delightful, with a high of 71 and low of 51 degrees.
• Friday: Plenty of sunshine, temps: high: 68, low: 50.
• Saturday: Sunny to partly cloudy, with a high of 69 and low of 56 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

1. Town Seeks To Acquire 38.3 Acres At Former Sand Mine In Wainscott For Preservation, Municipal Needs (patch.com) — East Hampton Town is proposing to buy 38.3 acres at a former Wainscott sand mine, dedicating most of it to open space and recreation while reserving five acres for future municipal needs. Officials say the plan would prevent intensive commercial-industrial development, build on recent preservation efforts, and transform the reclaimed site into a grassland meadow, with a public hearing set for October 15.
   

2. NextEra Halts East Hampton, Montauk Battery Plants Over Water Contamination (southshorepress.com) — Battery storage plants in East Hampton and Montauk have been shut down while NextEra removes a fire suppression chemical linked by regulators to contamination in nearby East Hampton drinking water wells. East Hampton Town officials pushed for the shutdown and are holding a potential lawsuit in reserve as state and county agencies pursue cleanup and continued groundwater testing.
   

3. An Actor's Rise, Fall, and Return (easthamptonstar.com) — East Hampton's Playwrights' Theatre is bringing a new staged reading, "The Old Marlin and the Sea," to LTV Studios in Wainscott this Saturday night, tracing actor William Farnum's dramatic rise, fall, and reinvention. With original music, historic projections, and a cast of familiar East End theater names, the production connects Hollywood lore to local history, including a legendary marlin that has long hung in the neighborhood. Tickets are available now, with higher prices on show day.
   

4. Poetry and Prose From a New Pushcart Collection (easthamptonstar.com) — A new Pushcart Press collection will be celebrated Friday evening at BookHampton in downtown East Hampton, where co-editors Philip Schultz and Bill Henderson will read, talk, and sign books. The hefty anthology highlights poetry and prose that small presses made possible, with Schultz, an East Hampton resident, emphasizing its wide-ranging takes on identity, politics, and truth-telling. Expect a Q&A and plenty of literary discovery.
   

5. HPU's Grubb ties for first place at Tennessee; NCSU, Wake take third (triadgolf.com) — College golf teams recently competed at Maidstone Club in East Hampton, where Wake Forest's men finished third in the Hamptons Intercollegiate behind Florida and Rutgers. While the story mainly highlights players and results from several universities, it also underscores East Hampton's role as a host for high-level collegiate golf.
   

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Other local events

Thursday October 8
• Crystal Singing Bowls Sound Healing Class →
  East Hampton Library, 159 Main St, East Hampton
  5:30 pm
• Crystal Singing Bowls Sound Healing Class →
  East Hampton Library, 159 Main St, East Hampton
  5:30 pm
• Hamptons International Film Festival: Club Kid →
  Guild Hall, 158 Main Street, East Hampton
  8:15 pm
Friday October 9
• Watercolors of the Whaling Industry by Claus Hoie →
  Clinton Academy, 151 Main Street, East Hampton
  11:00 am
• Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center Brings Birds of Prey to Hank's Pumpkintown →
  Hank's Pumpkintown, 240 Montauk Hwy, Water Mill
  12:00 pm
• Friday Afternoon Mahjong →
  East Hampton Library, 159 Main St, East Hampton
  1:00 pm
Saturday October 10
• ARF's Stroll to the Sea Dog Walk →
  Mulford Farm Museum, 10 James Ln, East Hampton
  9:00 am
• Adult Tap →
  44 Meadow Way, East Hampton
  9:00 am
• Westhampton Fall Festival 🍂 →
  Main Street, Main St, Westhampton Beach
  10:00 am
• Blacksmith Demonstration with James DeMartis →
  The Blacksmith Shop
  10:30 am
• The Birds Are Back: Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center's Birds of Prey Return to Marders →
  Marders, 120 Snake Hollow Rd, Bridgehampton
  1:00 pm

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