Business

While the cancellation of big summer events and limits on social gatherings put a major dent in their business, caterers on the East End report that things are picking up in a different way as wedding couples and private clients find ways to cut down their guests lists to hold more intimate celebrations.

As the pandemic continues, temperatures drop, and people prepare to spend more time indoors, East End homeowners are clamoring to upgrade ventilation systems with air filters and purifiers, among other devices to keep their homes as Covid-safe as possible.

A culinary weekend in Sag Harbor, new beauty products for Black women, and a co-working space reopens in East Hampton.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

The Suffolk County Aquaculture Lease Program's 10-year review advisory group will hold a public meeting on Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. via Zoom. Members of the public will have the ability to comment.

Because of a booming real estate market, revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund in August were $11.16 million, an increase of more than 85 percent from same month last year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced on Monday.

"The increase in revenue continues to be fueled by the exodus from New York City and other population centers to the East End," Mr. Thiele said.

The Hamptons Realty Group, a fixture on Main Street in Amagansett since 1984, rolled up its signature red awning and vacated the space it has long occupied this week. The firm is still very much alive and prospering, said its owner Htun Han, but the pandemic has changed the way it is doing business.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

A seminar on recouping economic losses in the pandemic, and a new home maintenance service.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

These prices have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

New York State's hemp pilot research program has grown from two growers and 30 acres in 2016 to more than 500 producers and 20,000 acres this year, but is set to expire on Oct. 31, and participants in the state's budding hemp industry are nervous about changes in state and federal regulations that they say could have catastrophic consequences just as the industry is starting to thrive.