Excitement was in the air at East Hampton Town Airport on Tuesday as five passengers entered the Beta Technologies Alia all-electric aircraft for the first-ever electric plane passenger flight in the United States. “I think quiet and sustainable aviation is the future,” said Rob Wiesenthal, the C.E.O. of Blade Air Mobility and one of the plane’s passengers.

Colin Beavan, formerly “No Impact Man,” now an executive coach, is offering a way to direct the great abundance here — of money, of celebrity, of influence — for a better world. He will lead three gatherings aimed at “those ready to step out of the noise and into meaningful, catalytic connection.”

An application to subdivide the privately held Montauk Airport on East Lake Drive into four residential lots is making its way through the East Hampton Planning Department and could get an initial airing before the planning board in early July. 

This photo from The Star’s archive shows the gambrel-roofed Amagansett station built in 1911, in use until the early 1960s, and famously the departure point of the 1942 Nazi saboteurs.

A Sag Harbor property owner, the first to run afoul last year of a new village law aimed at protecting trees of a certain diameter, had her case back in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court on Tuesday, and this time progress was made toward a resolution of the case. 

As paid parking in Sag Harbor Village has begun for the season and will continue in many lots until the fall, it’s time to take a closer look, particularly at the lot off Meadow Street and the gas ball lot, where payment is newly required.