To the delight of many light-tackle enthusiasts, false albacore, also known as albies, have arrived in East End waters in recent days. 

Daniel Bluman, an Israeli professional equestrian, won the $300,000 Longines Hampton Classic Grand Prix show-jumping class Sunday by going all-out in a seven-obstacle jump-off.

Sidelined following an accident, Mike Mata found that he "would be able to use my life experience to help young injured action-sport athletes whose outlook was unsure."

A drive to revive the youth lacrosse program here could result in a return of a full varsity schedule at East Hampton High School in coming years.

Anyone who was on the South Fork on Sept. 11, 2001, and old enough to remember the events of the day will likely start by recounting how perfectly it had begun: the weather dry and cool, the sky a brilliant blue, the surf as good as it gets. It was a perfection made all the more remarkable by what would follow at 8:46 a.m., when the first plane hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. 

Mark Mangini, one of New York City's most active and respected choral conductors and the music director of the Choral Society of the Hamptons for more than 20 years, died of cancer at home in Astoria, Queens, on Sunday. He was 69.

Lucia Margaret Naimoli, known as Lucy to family and friends, died on Aug. 8 at home in Montauk of respiratory failure from complications of Alzheimer's disease. She was 95 and had been ill for three months.

Gus Antell, a high school teacher and the author of several textbooks on economics and the history of Western civilization, died on Saturday at home in East Hampton. He was 95.

Heading into New York City to assist the New York Police Department in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks with an East Hampton Town and Village emergency service unit team, it was all quite surreal, from the quiet almost empty roadways on the drive in to the moment we crested an elevated portion of the Long Island Expressway in Queens where you would normally see the Twin Towers on the skyline, but instead there was just this cloud of dust hanging in the air where the towers used to stand.