Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island has launched a scholarship initiative with seven Latino-owned businesses to support “the future of East End Latino youth,” according to the nonprofit.

Student artwork inspired by Springs, the Mermen at Guild Hall.

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation issued an air quality health advisory on July 26 because of particulate matter, descending on the East End from wildfires that are again raging in Canada. If the East End were a city, it would have been ranked seventh worst in the world, between Doha, Qatar, and Lahore, Pakistan, according to iqair.com.

Four people were assessed by responders from the Montauk Fire Department, but declined further treatment, after they were struck by a woman trying to park her Honda sedan near the Montauk Brewing Company. Also in Montauk, a Volvo S.U.V. struck an e-bike on Main Street, resulting in injuries to the 13-year-old bicyclist.

Through a window in the second-floor den of a house on Cranberry Hole Road, the undeveloped dunescape of Napeague State Parks comes into view. The house — on the market with Sotheby’s at $3.8 million — was sited deliberately to take in as much of the landscape as possible.

Ryder Abran, a key figure in the East Hampton Little League’s county-finalist 10-U all-star team’s most recent season, has overcome a disease that can reduce the ball of the hip’s ball-and-socket joint to putty by interrupting blood flow.

At the Jordan’s Run 5K, which starts just off the hill at the foot of Jordan Haerter’s alma mater, Pierson High School, two more recent grads, Justin Gardiner and Penelope Greene, finished first and second on Sunday.

Thanks to the pitching of Max Kra and a walk-off hit by Alex Schuchard in the bottom of the seventh inning, the East End Ospreys repeated as the Hamptons Adult Hardball league’s champion Sunday in Bridgehampton.

Last week, Capt. Rich Jensen, who keeps a charter boat at Orient, did something different. He had an open date and took some friends and family out on the water to catch and release sharks.

Summertime, and the letters are many . . .

Among the points made at a forum held on July 20 about landscaping, sustainability, and community action was the idea that incentives for homeowners could help the groundwater supply.

The East Hampton Town Board voted 3 to 1 last week in favor of a $20 million contribution from the community preservation fund toward a land deal at Georgica Pond, but public access is limited.

Since January so much has become uncertain for the future college graduates of 2029 — from how they will fund their education to what classes they may or may not be permitted to take.

I have taken note of a science article about the benefit of “blue” places, like oceans, bays, ponds, and rivers.

It’s my belief that the cashiers at this one supermarket — as at most groceries and gourmet marts in our neighborhood — are only mirroring the incivility of many of the customers.

Out of shape? Getting older? A little rain? No matter, showing up for Jordan’s Run is always worth the effort.

A 91-year-old physicist questions the wisdom he has acquired during a productive and well-lived life.

From Amagansett to Southampton Village . . .

Next up at Guild Hall are two solo shows: ceramics, watercolors, and paintings by Mary Heilmann, and a multimedia installation for which Joel Mesler has recreated his office and studio.

Bay Street's "Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical" tells the story of the outlaws and their gang, with a thrilling musical score and a focus on the duo's quest for fame and notoriety.