While we humans are pinned down by gravity, there’s an overnight flow of birds hundreds and thousands of feet overhead using sound as their invisible traffic control system. 

An as-yet-unsigned Sept. 10 stipulation of settlement between the Maidstone Gun Club and seven Wainscott property owners who reported finding bullets lodged in their houses and were granted a temporary restraining order barring use of the club’s facilities in 2022 outlines terms under which the club could reopen. 

Former New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has been named to the board of Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island. 

The New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division has rejected an appeal by the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals of a lower court ruling that overturned the Z.B.A.’s denial of a proposed dock on the east side of Three Mile Harbor. 

Registered voters in the East Hampton Library District — which includes the East Hampton, Springs, and Wainscott School Districts — can cast ballots Saturday on the library’s $3.994 million budget for 2026. 

If passing a tree protection ordinance in the Town of East Hampton is set to be a war between environmentalists and developers, Jaine Mehring’s presentation before the town board on Tuesday was the first salvo. 

Nearly a dozen residents urged the Southampton Town Board last week to switch the designation of an 8.3-acre preserved farmland parcel across from Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sagaponack to open space. Sagaponack Mayor Bill Tillotson and David McMillan Jr., a member of that village’s board, opposed the change.

The East Hampton Town Board accepted a bid of $791,875 Tuesday for renovations to be made to the town’s dispatch center.