Star Kids 05-22

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Carissa Katz & Matthew Charron
May 22, 2026

Your Guide to Family Fun and Important Information

East Hampton voters came out in support of the 2026-27 school budget and three additional bond proposals that will allow the district to make major upgrades at all three of its school buildings and campuses and add an indoor pool and indoor athletic facility at the high school.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

In the top of the first inning, things didn’t look good. East Hampton was already trailing Eastport-South Manor 4-0 in their first playoff game of the postseason, with the pitcher Izzy Briand uncharacteristically in a hole. It was not the start the Bonackers were looking for, but it didn’t last long. 

By Alison Morris Roslyn

School budgets sailed through this week in Springs, Montauk, Sagaponack, Wainscott, and Sag Harbor, where there were no contested elections and spending plans stayed within the state-imposed cap on tax-levy increases. 

By Carissa Katz and Leigh Goodstein

A popular unified athlete played his last basketball game of his high school career this week at East Hampton. Jimmy Esposito is turning 22 and will age out of the program.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

Only 4 percent of Boy Scouts become Eagle Scouts, and Calogero Sferrazza, a junior at Pierson High School, is about to become one of them. As a scout, he has earned almost 21 merit badges, and plans to earn his final credentials with a project honoring veterans in his hometown of Sag Harbor. 

By Leigh Goodstein

In their last dual meet of the season, the Bonackers proved that the boys track program at East Hampton High School is back. They finished the season 5-1.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

Parents from 25 schools and 38 track and field teams cheered on 707 male and female athletes from across Long Island at the East End Classic here. And the Bonackers put on quite a show, with several standout performances and some new school records.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

East Hampton recognized its Suffolk Zone Award winners and News 12 Scholar-Athlete at a school board meeting this week.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

The entire season came down to a single game. Bonac baseball’s 2-0 loss to Westhampton Beach at home on May 12 cost them a playoff berth. Bonac would return the favor, though, winning the final two games of the series and knocking the Hurricanes out of the postseason with a 9-4 victory at home on May 15. 

By Alison Morris Roslyn

Small but mighty. That’s how East Hampton’s head coach of flag football, Erin Gillott, described her senior class last week. It’s a pretty accurate description not just of the seniors, but the football program over all — still in its infancy at just 4 years old.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

The last home game for the East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team on May 12 included athletes of all ages. East End Lacrosse brought some of its elementary school girls to see their high school heroes, creating a lacrosse stick tunnel for the Bonac seniors to run through before their matchup against John Glenn.

By Alison Morris Roslyn

Happening for kids this week is a kite-flying event for the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center at Main Beach, an ice cream social to kick of the East Hampton Library's summer reading club, and a fashion show and exhibition of student photography at The Church in Sag Harbor.

By Star Staff

There’s a first time for everything. First words, first steps, and even a first field trip. Springs School prekindergartners got to experience the latter recently.

By Alexa Salcedo Rivas, Grade 6