A New York State Supreme Court Justice issued a temporary restraining order on Monday blocking East Hampton Town from temporarily closing its airport on Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. as it had planned.

Joseph Grippo's appearance in Suffolk County Criminal Court on Thursday was markedly different from the last time he appeared there before Justice Stephen L. Braslow. Instead of insults, Mr. Grippo apologized to the judge, who on April 25 had held him in contempt and ordered him out of the courtroom.

The Bridgehampton School on Wednesday warned families about a troublesome TikTok account called "bhssecretspy" that has been "disseminating videos that are derogatory in nature," according to an email from Michael Miller, the school principal.

East Hampton Town's senior citizens center, on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton, has been temporarily shuttered following several cases of Covid-19 among program attendees and staff.

In March of 2021, when police charged a man with robbing and kidnapping a woman in Springs, community members were shocked to hear of it. A woman reported being robbed of thousands of dollars and her cellphone in broad daylight, as she sat in her car, parked at the Springs School around student dismissal time. Fast forward a year: Jay Rowe of Springs, 48, pleaded guilty on Friday to first-degree robbery, second-degree kidnapping, and grand larceny, all felonies.

With Covid-19 transmission falling to levels not seen since last year, East Hampton Town has lifted a mask requirement for those entering town offices and other facilities. 

In the arraignment Friday of Marc T. Dern, the Springs man accused of unintentionally killing a close friend, Kevin Somers of Amagansett, during a fight on Feb. 5, New York State Supreme Court Justice John B. Collins reduced Mr. Dern's bail to $150,000 cash or $1.5 million bond or partially secured bond — which, either way, would require a payment of $150,000.

The East Hampton Town Board voted on Thursday to postpone the planned temporary closure of East Hampton Airport to May 17. The planned reopening date is now May 19.

With the looming closure of East Hampton Airport and a plan to open a new one as a private-use facility with restrictions on flight activity, a provider of medical helicopters and fixed-wing air ambulance services has written to Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc to express its "extreme concern" about the plan.

East Hampton Town police and detectives from the Suffolk County police homicide squad are investigating the death of an Amagansett man at a house in Springs after an altercation there on Saturday night.