Upward of 50 people attended East Hampton Village’s first workshop as it prepares to update its comprehensive plan, filling nearly every chair in the Emergency Services Building. Familiar themes peppered the conversation: traffic congestion and speeding, lack of affordable housing, the departure of mom-and-pop shops, and the constant clatter of the landscaping and construction industries.

The Montauk School Board has a self-imposed deadline of its first meeting in January to decide whether to proceed with the latest draft of its proposed building renovation, a $37 million plan that would include a new gymnasium.

The Hampton Ballet Theatre School’s annual production of “The Nutcracker” is returning to Guild Hall for four shows that start Friday night in the newly renovated theater.

Pitch Your Peers, a charitable effort launched here in 2023 by Brooke Bohnsack, has awarded a $35,000 grant to the Springs Food Pantry and a $10,000 grant to Project Most, the organization announced on Dec. 1.

Bridgehampton’s Ernestine Rose, an important figure in the history of the New York Public Library, championed preserving Black culture through the Schomburg Collection.

Lego Robotics at Springs School started its new season and like last year there are two teams: the Lightning Bots coached by Laura Foti and Erik Schwab and the Thunder Bots, coached by Danielle Hamilton and Tracey Frazier.

The next session of the Arts and Eats program for teens happens tomorrow afternoon from 2:45 to 4:30 at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill. Also coming up for kids and teens: Sewing Club, custom trucker hats, the science of flying, an escape room, and more.

“It’s not like I went to the moon or anything, but it’s something I did that was pretty cool when I was 10 years old,” Billy Strong said, before objecting to someone else “taking credit” for a 1976 "Jaws"-inspired prank at Town Pond.

Mashashimuet Park could be getting a new entrance, Sag Harbor Village’s deputy mayor, Ed Haye, announced at Tuesday night’s village board meeting. It would be moved south of its current location, he said, onto the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, and could be folded into Suffolk County’s planned renovation to that road.

The East Hampton Town Board discussed on Tuesday the procedure for when members of the architectural review board or the zoning board of appeals must be absent from meetings and an alternate must be formally accepted into the process.

Police went to Iacono’s Farm on Long Lane on the morning of Nov. 20 to investigate a theft of eggs. Apparently two people, whose identities were redacted, had taken three boxes of eggs from the honor box outside without paying. One of them agreed to pay $24 in restitution.

A single-car accident on Three Mile Harbor Road in Springs, in which a driver struck mailboxes and shrubs by the side of the road, led to an arrest on a charge of felony drunken driving on the night of Nov. 30.

This week’s load of reader comment, with a note about the holiday deadlines for the next batch of letters to the editor.

From 1949 water worries on the eve of massive Long Island development to the small triumph of halting gun sales at the Bridgehampton Kmart, it happened here, news junkies.

A call to give landmark status to about 30 acres in Wainscott recently bought by East Hampton Town should be heeded.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, is a Senate vote away from becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The intersection at Cedar and North Main Streets and a bit farther north at the split of Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Roads are two areas that desperately need a fresh set of painted lines.

Boating season came to an end with a whimper, though in my imagination the year was not going to be like this.

The music room in my house is what “the parlor” was to Americans in the mid-20th century: the room that time forgot.

A divine stay at a monastery turned hotel in Pittsburgh.