A woman called 911 Friday evening complaining that she was being harassed. A “middle-aged man” was taking pictures of her in front of Starbucks in East Hampton, she told police, who advised her that taking pictures in a public place “is a legal practice.”

Alec Baldwin, the actor and co-chair of the executive committee of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s board, made headlines unrelated to the festival on Monday after the Range Rover he was driving hit a tree on Pantigo Road.

Police were kept busy on the roads here last week, with six people injured in six accidents, three of which happened at the beginning of the holiday weekend.

In last week’s single felony-level arrest, East Hampton Town police accused a Central Islip man of driving a stolen vehicle.

“I am going to run for town supervisor,” East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen told a room full of supporters last week at Si Si, the restaurant at the EHP Resort on Three Mile Harbor, not only confirming his 2026 candidacy but also revealing a key part of his strategy. 

The Columbus Day weekend northeaster obviously put squidding, and all fishing for that matter, on a temporary hold. But the squid should still be around in solid quantities as the seas settle down this week.

East Hampton’s football Bonackers beat Westhampton Beach last weekend for the first time since 2009. And things are starting to click for the young boys volleyball team.

The sporting week ahead, including Saturday’s Shelter Island 5K and the Montauk Brewathlon.

You never know what you’ll find at a yard sale. Like the architectural plans for the redone Pussy’s Pond bridge in Springs.

In 1975, pilots complained to the town about the cost of fuel and tie-downs at the airport. In 2000, the public acquisition of Shadmoor on the Montauk bluffs was celebrated. And more ripped from our pages.

From film fest comment to candidate testimonials.

The greatness and power of the United States in the postwar years was in large measure built on the scientific outpouring of ideas and inventions that flowed from America’s universities.

Now that the plan for a new senior citizens center in Amagansett is to be reassessed, greater community buy-in should be among the town’s key objectives, preferably involving some creativity.

Sora 2 is a so-called artificial intelligence that can make lifelike videos with a few brief instructions, and it is ominous indeed.

My pretentious existential crisis this week was brought about by the demise of my dishwasher.

The charming, devastating accuracy of the Peacock comedy “The Paper.”

An artist on her working-class upbringing in Minnesota, the Beatles, and a life through the prism of magical realism.

Once more unto the buys. Montauk to Southampton.

Brewathlon, in which teams of four will face off in a run, row, and bike race for the Old Montauk Athletic Club, will take place on Saturday beginning at the Montauk Brewing Company on South Erie Avenue. Start time is noon. 

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's autumn series will feature the Brooklyn Rider string quartet with music from Haydn to Dylan, Gilles Vonsattel in an all-Beethoven piano recital, and a "Festive Baroque" concert.