Five years after it closed its doors, the Southampton Cinema has reopened on Hill Street as the Southampton Playhouse, with IMAX features, first-run releases, and an inaugural repertory program of films from 1932.

East Hampton High’s Bronco Campsey at 108 pounds and Franco Palombino at 215 won League III wrestling championships Saturday, the boys county swimming meet qualifiers placed eighth among 19 squads, and the boys basketball team ended the League V season at 5-11 and 7-13 over all.

Miczar Garcia, a Bridgehampton senior who rarely plays, launched the ball from beyond the arc in the final seconds Friday and it swished through, topping off a 104-51 blowout of Shelter Island and unleashing pandemonium. 

Shawn Mitchell, an Amagansett School kindergarten teacher who not long ago took over a youth basketball league in Sag Harbor, now oversees the East End Basketball Organization for third through sixth graders. 

After watching the devastation wrought by the wildfires raging through Los Angeles County, three Sag Harbor Elementary School students spearheaded a read-a-thon to raise money to buy books for children who lost their schools and, in many cases, homes to the Eaton fire. It brought in close to $15,000.

The Peconic Estuary Partnership, which was to receive $2.7 million in federal funding toward projects that include a $200,000 stormwater mitigation effort in Sag Harbor and $100,000 of wetlands work in Southampton, is now unsure if that funding will be available following an executive order by the Trump administration that froze billions in federal grants.

East Hampton school officials have reached a new five-year tuition agreement with districts in Montauk, Springs, and Amagansett allowing them to send students to East Hampton schools after they age out of their home districts.

A tree once grew in East Hampton. A big tree. A “perfectly healthy tree” that was likely “a couple of lifetimes” old, according to Dave Collins, the East Hampton Village superintendent of public works. Then, a homeowner decided it needed to go and in a spasm of governmental efficiency, it was promptly removed by the state. The tree seems to have fallen victim to a cross-jurisdictional communication gap.