Construction could begin as early as this fall on a new, Federal Emergency Management Agency-compliant, 20-foot-high dune at Ditch Plain in Montauk following the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's approval of a permit for the coastal restoration project.

Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a state of emergency Thursday for downstate New York and Long Island in advance of heavy rain and localized flooding forecasted to hit the areas in the evening. 

The East Hampton Village Foundation will recognize the village’s first responders at a fund-raiser on Aug. 13 at Swifty’s, the restaurant at the Hedges Inn.

The pace at which Lenny Ackerman moves belies his 86 years. The prominent East End attorney writes a weekly column for The Mountain Messenger, has taken up painting, and has just published his fourth book.

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photo Collection at the East Hampton Library shows the A.O. Jones Hardware Store at 51 Newtown Lane. Owned by Asa O. Jones (1857-1953), it later became East End Hardware and today is A.L.C., a clothing store.

Neighbors of a Beach Hampton couple who live at 183 Marine Boulevard in Amagansett made it known to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on July 22 that they would be no happier living near a house 10 feet higher than it is now whether its roof is gabled or flat. 

For her just-released science-fiction novel, “Black Hole Highway,” Georgia Flight, an East Hampton High School English teacher, drew inspiration from stories like “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and “Star Wars,” and the work of Kurt Vonnegut — whimsical, fun to read, and not weighed down by extensive passages of “dreary” world-building.

Men in tactical police gear, at least two carrying rifles and at least one masked, converged on an Amagansett house on Monday evening in what the East Hampton Town police chief said was “a criminal investigation conducted by multiple federal law enforcement agencies, and was not solely an immigration case.” 

Lee Zeldin, who represented New York’s First Congressional District from 2015 to 2023 and is now the administrator of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, was heckled and admonished by climate activists at the Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, in a chaotic scene that turned violent.

In a surprise announcement on Monday, LTV, which operates East Hampton Town’s public access channel, announced that Michael Clark, its executive director since October 2019, has resigned. Jonathan Olken, chairman of LTV’s board of directors, has also resigned, and Ellen Watson, LTV’s longtime operations manager, is soon to retire.

The Amagansett Village Improvement Society will tip its collective hat to Joan Tulp on Saturday. “I don’t think I’ve met anyone more committed to their hometown than Joan,” said Victor Gelb, who serves as co-president of the group with her.

A drunken neighbor tossed a chicken wing off a deck and “almost struck one of his children” late Saturday night, a Montauk Highway renter told police, which led to a “brief argument” between the parties, though he said the neighbor and his partner later came over and “attempted” to apologize.

As temperatures rise in East Hampton Town’s waterways, algal blooms are appearing, growing, and, in at least one case, declining.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board came close to scheduling a public hearing on an application for the relocation of a 150-foot communications tower at the Springs Firehouse on Fort Pond Boulevard last week. Instead, despite pressure from Elite Towers, the applicant, the board decided one more meeting was necessary. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood last week aimed at making septic system upgrades more affordable, which environmental advocates say is critical to addressing impaired water bodies, including in East Hampton Town. 

A coed double-elimination softball tournament played each year in memory of Travis Field, who died at age 20 in a car accident in 2008, is to begin at 5 p.m. Thursday with opening ceremonies at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

Dennis and Barbara D’Andrea have been active as preservationists and community advocates for as long as the collective institutional memory of Wainscott serves.

In 1975 a Bock and a Topping were netting for porgies and hauled in a dusky shark. And other tidbits from our pages.

The East Hampton Town and East Hampton Village entries topped the women’s field in last Thursday’s Main Beach invitational lifeguard tournament, while the town’s men’s A team finished third, behind Smith Point and Jones Beach.

Rue Matthiessen will be at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton on Aug. 1 at 5 p.m. for the Fridays at Five series to read from her 2024 memoir, “Castles & Ruins.”