When Superstorm Sandy roared across the South Fork the distinctive weathervane atop the Amagansett School — in the shape of a sailboat with sea gulls flying fore and aft — was one small casualty. Bob Linker of the Irony has not only restored the weathervane, but made sure it will work properly for the first time.

Has a shocking crime that took place in East Hampton Village in 1955 finally been solved? Mayor Jerry Larsen believes it has, and he isn’t alone.

A massive die-off of honeybees this winter marks “the first time in history that professionals lost more bees than hobbyists,” one beekeeper said. Bee experts are working to identify the cause of unprecedented losses that will be the biggest to hit honeybee colonies in U.S. history.

Last winter and the one just passed have proved less daunting for some here than in the past thanks to the presence of the Hamptons Run Club, which is overseen by Edwin Garcia, a Montauk personal trainer.

Anyone who has played a racket sport — tennis, platform tennis, squash, racquetball, pickleball — will be able to pick up padel readily, and it’s popularity is surging.

Several East Hampton Town Trustees have questioned the expansion of an oyster restoration effort and an accompanying reef in Georgica Pond, as requested by Stony Brook University scientists. “I don’t want to be a board that drastically changed that entire closed ecosystem,” the presiding officer said.

After being closed to the public for more than a decade and with a yearslong renovation project deemed complete, Second House in Montauk, originally built in 1746 and replaced in 1797 following a fire, will soon reopen to the public.

Kim Quarty, who spent 17 years at the Peconic Land Trust, serving as its director of conservation planning, is the foundation’s new executive director.

A record of payments Nathaniel Baker made, mostly as barter, to the heirs of Abraham Schellinger beginning in 1713.