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Deceased Minke Whale Found In Bridgehampton
Friday, 3 May, 2024
The atmosphere at Stony Brook University was tense yesterday, less than a day after 29 people, including nearly two dozen students, were arrested during a confrontation with authorities. As reported in NEWSDAY, a pro-Palestinian protest broke out again on campus Thursday afternoon, although the demonstrators dispersed shortly afterward. And Jewish students, who gathered for a party in the space where Wednesday's protest took place, said the week's events had left them fearing for their safety.Late yesterday afternoon, as students came and went to their final exams, roughly 100 students gathered at an outdoor campus concert, and later in front of the Earth and Space building, for an impromptu protest. They chanted “Free Palestine” and shouted “Shame” at university officials after the arrests of “peaceful protesters.”The demonstrators chanted slogans against Israel and called for Palestinian resistance. One protester made an obscene gesture at a small group of students watching, one of whom was wrapped in an Israeli flag. The protest ended without altercations.Shortly after midnight Thursday, 22 students, two faculty members and five others had been arrested after they refused to vacate a grassy area on campus known as the Staller Steps. Meanwhile, students gathered yesterday for a Jewish heritage event in front of the Staller Center — the same site where protesters had been arrested and evicted hours earlier.The event got underway amid heavy security. Campus police erected wood barriers and put up yellow police tape to control access to the site. It attracted about 50 people, a sparser crowd than the 500 who came last year, event organizers said.***The Alive on 25 summer street festival will return this year with two events which will bring fireworks and, for the first time, a laser light show, to downtown Riverhead. Alek Lewis reports on Riverheadlocal.com that the first event will be on July 5 and include fireworks starting at 9 p.m. The second event is on Aug. 9 and includes a laser light show over the Peconic River and in the Riverhead Town square starting at 9 p.m. The events, which feature live music on multiple stages, local craft beverages, food trucks, street dining, vendors and activities on Main Street and the Peconic Riverfront, begin at 5 p.m. and officially end at 9:30 p.m. Rain dates for the events are July 19 and Aug. 23. The Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association, which organizes the festival, decided to cut down the number of Alive on 25 events down from four to two events this year. For the first time, the street festival had a small financial loss last year, Riverhead Business Improvement District Management Association executive director Kristy Verity said at a recent BIDMA board meeting. The first event of the summer, which coincides with Independence Day weekend, typically has an “enormous” turnout, and that attendance seems to dwindle with the other three events, she said. That caused some vendors to bow out of the festival altogether because they had to commit to attending all four events, she said.This is the second big change to the street festival in recent memory; in 2022, BIDMA moved the festival from Thursday to Friday with the hope that weekend traffic could boost attendance. The move to Friday nights has been “very successful,” Verity said.***A badly decomposed female minke whale was found in the ocean surf in Bridgehampton this past Wednesday morning. As reported on 27east.com, scientists with the Atlantic Marine Conservation Society conducted a necropsy of the 26-foot whale. The animal showed no sign of trauma, but it will not be possible to pinpoint a cause of...
