The Shelter Island 5K, a run and walk for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, will start on Saturday from Crescent Beach on a course that is certified by U.S.A. Track and Field (for those serious runners out there). 

The New York State Supreme Court authorized the Maidstone Gun Club to begin steps to "demolish the rifle range, conduct environmental remediation, and engage in safety measures," according to the East Hampton Town attorney.

Bonac’s freshmen rose to the top in the 2.5K at the Suffolk Officials Invitational Saturday, and a sophomore placed third in the varsity 5K.

The combined East Hampton and Pierson girls swim team met two tough opponents in the water over the last two weeks, but even in close losses to Ward Melville and Half Hollow Hills there were top-notch performances.

Chip Dayton, a rock-and-roll photographer with an impressive portfolio, died of cardiac arrest on Sept. 9 in Skowhegan, Me. The former East Hamptoner was 74.

Jason H. Bertanzel, who had lived on Swamp Road in East Hampton for much of his life, died of a heart ailment on Oct. 2 in Manorville, where he resided for the last year. He was 45.

The East Hampton Town Board voted Tuesday to end its relationship with R2 Architecture, the joint venture it had chosen in 2022 to design a new senior citizens center on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, and said it would re-evaluate its plans for the facility.

East Hampton Town’s projected cost of renourishing the sandy beach created by the Fire Island to Montauk Point coastal storm risk management project will be about $28 million over 30 years, according to a project partnership agreement discussed by the town board this week.

“It’s an incredible moment here, of course,” Leon Morris, a former rabbi at Temple Adas Israel in Sag Harbor, wrote this week from Israel. “Mixed with all the emotions of the enormous losses for us, and of course for the innocent Palestinians in Gaza.”

Private driveways branch off a long and winding Old Montauk Highway, and to a first-time visitor the place is a kind of dreamscape, one that grows more surreal when the gate is opened and soon it is before you: the Stone House.