The next two weekends promise festive fun in Amagansett, with events at Amagansett Square, the Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum, and the firehouse.

Paid Notice: Jason T. Noble, who hailed from Bridgehampton and Sag Harbor, loved making music and mischief, poetry and paintings, and friends. He died at home in Brooklyn on Nov. 24 of causes related to a spinal-cord injury sustained in 2000. He was 49.

After the town board agreed to slash the maximum allowable house size from 20,000 to 10,000 square feet townwide, the board focused Tuesday on recommendations from the Planning Department to change a formula that would also reduce the maximum gross floor area of houses by tying that to the size of their lots.

The spotted lanternfly, after making its first appearance on the South Fork last fall, continued its eastward march in 2024, with the fancy-looking insects showing up in every trap placed here by the Town of East Hampton.

It’s not the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yet, but what is now dubbed Santafest seems to be growing year by year in East Hampton Village. This year it will take place on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the parade will feature its first grand marshal, John Ryan Sr.

The East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday heard the first round of pitches for affordable housing projects angling for money generated by the half-percent community housing fund real estate transfer tax, which has produced more than $10 million since it went into effect in April 2023.

The real estate developer Jeremy Morton discussed his plans for the commercial buildings at 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue in Sag Harbor at a village planning board hearing on Nov. 26.

Kirby Marcantonio doesn’t always read East magazine, but he happened to pick up the Thanksgiving issue last week. Flipping through the pages, he found an illustration that looked familiar: a shark flopping around in Town Pond.

Several residents of the Lazy Point neighborhood on Napeague have voiced concerns at recent meetings of the East Hampton Town Trustees about a Suffolk County dredging project in the channel between Lazy Point and Hicks Island, arguing that widening the channel as proposed would allow water to rise and encroach even more on their houses.

A management plan for a new pocket park in Amagansett, featuring recreation and meeting spaces, had a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Board on Nov. 21, with just one speaker offering thoughts on the proposal.

The Diocese of Rockville Centre’s $323 million settlement in the bankruptcy case connected to a flood of lawsuits concerning child sexual abuse in its parishes stretching as far back as the 1950s was approved yesterday by Judge Martin Glenn of the Southern District of New York Bankruptcy Court.

Stephen Deckoff, the billionaire founder of the private equity firm Black Diamond Capital Management, and his son, Stephen E. Deckoff, are no longer simply longtime visitors to Montauk aboard their yacht. They are officially the new owners of Gosman’s Dock and several surrounding properties, acquiring the set for just over $34.35 million in October.

Georgia Bennett and Evan Fox were married on Sept. 28 at the Hedges Inn in East Hampton, with one of the bride’s uncles officiating and another performing on trumpet.

A free 90-minute workshop introducing job seekers to potential careers in the offshore wind energy industry will take place on Wednesday starting at 5:30 p.m. at Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County at 423 North Griffing Avenue in Riverhead.

Albert A. Zaccaria of Montauk, a Navy veteran who served as a medic aboard the U.S.S. Saipan during the Korean War and later became a schoolteacher, died at home on Nov. 23. He was 93.

A native of Ireland whose family said she will “always be remembered for her unconditional love and care of others,” Kitty O’Neill of Wainscott and Woodside, Queens, died on Nov. 27 at the Lahey Hospital and Medical Center Burlington, Mass. She was 85.

This photograph, taken in 1996, shows the ice house on the grounds of the L.V.I.S. after its rehabilitation.

Technology is essential for a student’s learning experience in schools today. This is why Springs School provides students with Chromebooks, which are used to complete activities and administer tests at both the classroom and state levels. Teachers are also able to connect with students using the Chromebooks by creating personal lessons for those who need help.

With its new production, “Our Fabulous Chrismukkah Carol: A Holiday Rewrite,” coming to Guild Hall this weekend, Our Fabulous Variety Show flips the script on the story of Scrooge as originally told by Charles Dickens.

Carl Irace, a Sag Harbor Village Justice and local attorney who argued a case last month before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, has since been appointed to represent a defendant on federal charges involving a fentanyl-induced death.