Ted Hartley at Keyes Art, an invitation to "play" at Crush Curatorial, and some art classes at the Parrish

North Main Street in East Hampton Village will be closed between 6:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. Wednesday as construction crews build a foundation for a new railroad bridge.

Applications for Guild Hall's Teen Arts Council are being accepted through Oct. 11. The council is open to teens age 14 and up who are interested in the arts.

The Teen Arts Council, founded in 2017, is "a collective of young creatives representing and celebrating a wide range of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives," Guild Hall said in its announcement. Members "work within the institution to curate public programming, advance their own creativity, and progress Guild Hall's outreach and relationship to our local teen community."

As if to underscore the validity of her words, Greta Thunberg twice interrupted her remarks to call for heat-related medical attention for one of the youthful mass gathered under the late-summer sun in Manhattan's Battery Park on Friday afternoon, the 16-year-old climate activist's appearance the culmination of the Youth Climate Strike that drew tens of thousands of students, some of them from East Hampton. 

The wide-open desert of Arizona, where the prized 100-year-old saguaro cactuses grow wild among rattlesnakes and roadrunners, used to be dotted with dozens of dude ranches. Families would escape the cold of the winter here for an active week of riding horses, hiking, exploring, swimming, learning rope tricks, and drinking cowboy coffee.

A 20-year-old man driving drunk crashed his car into two buildings in Springs and came to rest in between them just after midnight on Friday. He was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, where he is listed in critical condition. 

In a move it described as precautionary, the Suffolk County Health Department announced on Monday that it will conduct a private well survey in an area surrounding the closed landfill and at least two commercial composting or mulching operations along the Springs-Fireplace Road corridor in East Hampton and Springs.

Residents and visitors alike are willing to pay for the preservation of Montauk’s ocean beaches, the East Hampton Town Board was told on Tuesday, and both groups are amenable to either a property tax or a lodging tax to finance a wide, healthy beach.