Some ocean beaches, including Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett and South Edison and Ditch Plain in Montauk, will be staffed by lifeguards beginning on Saturday, May 24, during the Memorial Day weekend, as will Big Albert’s on the bay in Amagansett. They will remain open on weekends until mid-June, when all beaches will be staffed full time.

Edwin Keeshan, medical director of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk, will host the hamlet’s first Walk With a Doc, part of a national effort, on Saturday at 11 a.m. The meeting place is the gazebo on the downtown green.

ReWild Long Island is beginning its summer composting program this weekend and will collect compost and provide information to those interested on Saturday at the Springs and Sag Harbor Farmers Markets and the Montauk Community Garden. The organization will have tables at Ashawagh Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Sag Harbor market on Bay Street from 10 a.m. to noon, and also from 10 a.m.

LTV has launched the Pine Protection Project, an effort to address the southern pine beetle’s devastating impact on East Hampton Town’s pitch-pine forests. The project is a multifaceted approach with a goal of fostering discussion leading to action and solutions, and will include a June 11 panel discussion at LTV Studios in Wainscott. 

Dr. Pember Edwards and Matt Chapman were married on April 26 at the Presbyterian Church in East Hampton, the very church where they had met in a youth group in the 1990s. The ceremony, officiated by the Rev. Jon Rodriguez, was filled with thoughtful details of deep significance to the couple.

A Sag Harbor woman told police on Friday that her cat was stuck in a tree and would not come down, adding that she’d called an arborist friend who was on the way to help.

A search of a Jeep pulled over for swerving turned up a substance in a clear plastic bag. It later tested positive for cocaine, police said.

Two drivers, a man and a woman, who according to town police have been convicted within the past 10 years of driving while intoxicated, were accused of the same crime and now face felony D.W.I. charges.

How that Napeague icon, the D’Amico Institute of Art and its flagship vessel, the Art Barge, came to be.

Craig L. Patterson Sr., who, with his wife, Pat, owned and managed the East Hampton Bowl for 35 years, died on March 19 at the age of 81 in Largo, Fla.

The news I read from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a few weeks ago made me recall great times pertaining to the most iconic fish in the world.

No sooner had Trevor Meehan pitched the first no-hitter here in 30 years than he turned around a week later and pitched another one.

East Hampton High’s softball team “mercied” Harborfields in both ends of a doubleheader here Saturday, thus clinching a berth in the AA playoffs with a 10-6 record.

Check out the week ahead, sports fans.

A sarcastic screed against the scourge of swearing from the turn of the 20th century? For that and much more from our storied pages, read on.

From the new pope to e-bikes and license plate readers, behold variety . . .

Why did Nick LaLota vote for using “Gulf of America,” this jingoistic nod to the hyper-patriotism of the President Trump fan base?

Being able to eat outdoors at a South Fork restaurant during the summer is a delight, but too much of a good thing means trouble.

We believe that the business folk behind Bonac’s latest mega-label boutique know exactly what they are doing.

Getting reacquainted with Cerberus, my 1979 Cape Dory sloop.