🌱 East Hampton Daily: EH Town Caution As COVID Surges + Events!

Rise and shine, East Hampton! It's me again, Diane Witek, your host of the East Hampton Daily. Here are the top 3 stories in East Hampton today.

First, today's weather:

A shower early in the morning. High: 40, low: 34.

Here are the top stories today in East Hampton:

1. Health officials urge wearing a mask, vaccinations and booster shots to limit the spread and to avoid serious illness or death. Also, East Hampton Town Senior Center programs have been suspended for a month in face of steep rise in COVID cases and Omicron variant. (Press Release Desk)
2. Southampton Town officials declined to opt out of allowing retail and consumption establishments before the state’s year-end deadline for municipalities making Marijuana sales legal. Town officials estimate that sales could bring in $1 million to $2 million in tax revenue annually for the town. The towns of East Hampton, Hempstead, Oyster Bay, Huntington, Islip, Shelter Island, North Hempstead and Smithtown have opted out of the legislation. Riverhead officials narrowly voted to opt in, and Brookhaven and Babylon towns both opted in, as did Southampton, either by failing to schedule a public hearing or deciding not to take a vote on the matter. (Newsday)
3. There is a lot of family fun to be had during the days between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. Get out there and have fun with the kids by attending these family-based activities and events on the East End this week, Dec. 27–30. (Dan's Papers)

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Today in East Hampton:

• Weekend Take & Make DIY To-Go - East Hampton Library. (3 p.m.)
• St. Michael’s Lutheran Church. (5 p.m.)

From my notebook:

• Guild Hall of East Hampton: "Mr. and Mrs. Claus LOVE Guild Hall! 🎅🧑‍🎄🎁🎄 Did you know that Guild Hall was featured in the 1964 Sci-Fi/Comedy cult classic film, 'Santa Claus Conquers the Martians'? And who knew Mrs. Claus is from Queens?" (Facebook)
• Suffolk County Sheriff: "ELF ON THE SHELF UPDATE Dec. 23, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (Riverhead, NY) As Christmas approaches, friends and colleagues of the Elf on the Shelf rallied in front of the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead for his release." (Instagram)

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— Diane Witek

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