ReWild Long Island added a new pollinator garden at the Windmill 1 senior citizens housing complex in East Hampton last week.

For the first time in more than 400 years, the Shinnecock Nation has reclaimed aboriginal land. 

“We call ourselves East Hampton’s front porch because we’re the first thing you see when you pull into the village,” Sarah Wetenhall, who now owns the inn with her husband, Andrew, said. “One of our big missions here is to make the Hedges and Swifty’s open and available for the community.”

It’s been a bad news/good news month for at least two pairs of ospreys that had nests under construction removed, one likely by a homeowner, the other by PSEG Long Island.

A new activist group, People for Democracy East Hampton, will rally on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Town Hall.

A resolution to schedule a June 18 public hearing on a $30.7 million village budget was passed Friday at a meeting that saw sniping about tax rates levied on village residents by the town.

A copy of the 1944 “East Hampton Social Guide” from the L.V.I.S. offers a fascinating snapshot of the local businesses and transit options of the time.

The fifth-and-sixth-grade girls on the East End Lacrosse team went undefeated this spring, finishing 9-0 after wrapping up the season at the Suffolk County Girls Lacrosse Jamboree at Bellport High School over the May 17 and 18 weekend.

The sacrifice of “those who paid so terrible a price to ensure that freedom would be our legacy” was underlined again and again during Memorial Day observances in East Hampton. “If you want to honor their memory, then do the things they can’t,” said retired Marine Major Conlon Carabine. “Care for your family, care for yourself, care for your community, and try not to take the simple things in life for granted.”

An application to raise an oceanfront house in the Beach Hampton section of Amagansett nearly 10 feet, ostensibly to meet FEMA regulations, was met with circumspection at the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals last week.

Despite holdouts, there are comfortable majorities on both the East Hampton Town Planning Board and the Zoning Board of Appeals that favor allowing the 108-year-old Devon Yacht Club, at 300 Abram’s Landing Road in Amagansett, to proceed with its plans to renovate and reconstruct its buildings and amenities.

Two South Fork institutions — the Children’s Museum of the East End and the Watermill Center — have big events planned for families on Saturday, and both are free.

The Springs School Journalism Club’s final meeting of the year last week was also the last meeting for Rafaela (Rafa) DeMartis, a dedicated member of the club since September 2023, who is graduating in June.

The basketball careers of Howard and Kenny Wood, who are to be inducted into the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame tonight, will be celebrated Friday as well at a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott from 5 to 7 p.m.

A woman who reported property damage on James Lane in East Hampton Village Saturday evening told police she’d found bird droppings and tree debris on her car. Asked whether she usually parks under a tree, she responded, “Sometimes, but I think people might be putting these things on my car.”

A dispute in a Sag Harbor building resulted in multiple calls to police last week.

East Hampton Town police charged a Boston man with a felony over the holiday weekend.

A 24-year-old East Hampton man faces two weapons-related felony charges following his arrest a little after 3 a.m. on Friday.

A memorial service for Thomas Ferreira, a Montauk mechanic and noted litigant against the town, will be held on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at Edward Vincent Ecker Sr. County Park in Montauk. Mr. Ferreira died in September.

As he took photos and gave high-fives at the CardVault by Brady opening at Herrick Park, the legendary QB won me over. He was genuine.