Volunteers are needed by the East Hampton Library to help transcribe old, scanned East Hampton Town records and other documents, its director, Dennis Fabiszak, asked us to announce.

Peter Ciaccia, who organized and directed New York Road Runner events for 20 years, including the TCS New York City Marathon that is to be run throughout the city’s five boroughs Sunday, will have two goals in mind on the Verrazano Bridge: crossing the 26.2-mile race’s finish line, and raising as much money as he can through his Need 2 Feed gofundme effort so that the Montauk Food Pantry can continue to feed more than 200 needy families and homebound people in that hamlet.

Joy, and then heartache! With less than a minute to go in Wednesday's Class C Long Island field hockey championship, Sag Harbor had its last chance to tie the game against Carle Place, and it appeared that it did, until the referee annulled the goal by the Whalers' Meredith Spolarich. The Frogs won 2-1.

“I am truly sorry for ruining your lives,” a tearful Daniel Campbell, the driver in an August 2021 hit-and-run that led to the death of Devesh Samtani, told a courtroom full of Mr. Samtani's friends and family at his sentencing hearing on Thursday. "The loss of your son’s life will be with me forever.”

With a new book out — her 13th — Ina Garten talked at length with the New York Times writer Frank Bruni about the unexpected success of her first cookbook, where her recipes come from, how she develops them, what makes a good dinner party, and much more.

Five days before Election Day, the results of Tuesday’s midterm elections were anyone’s guess, with dueling polls showing Gov. Kathy Hochul comfortably ahead of Representative Lee Zeldin and Mr. Zeldin with a slight lead over the governor.

Wednesday is World Adoption Day, and Michael Watson and Aaron Cummings of Springs would like nothing more in the world than to adopt a baby. But the road to becoming a parent via adoption is rarely straightforward.

Two serious safety incidents involving students continued this week to concern the community as officials in the Springs and East Hampton School Districts addressed the issues with parents.