The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals agreed last week to send a nonbinding letter of potential approval to the town planning board regarding 20 variances required for a major rebuild of the Devon Yacht Club that has been making its way through the town’s review boards for the better part of three years.

Chief Jeffrey Erickson of the East Hampton Village Police Department announced the hiring of two officers, bring the department to full strength. And he village’s emergency medical service chief, Mary Mott, and Gerry Turza, the fire and E.M.S. administrator, recognized several volunteer and paid emergency personnel for quick action during emergency calls.

A Sycamore Drive woman got an unwelcome call from her plumber on April 21, telling her that her pool heater, valued at $7,500, was missing, with its pipes and lines severed. Whoever was responsible for the theft on Sycamore Drive may also have struck on Bon Pinck Way, where pool equipment was reported missing the following morning.

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum opens for the 2025 season on Saturday at 11 a.m. with tours and a performance of sea chanteys, followed by a wealth of events continuing into the fall.

The Riptides played in two tournaments run by Island Fastpitch — Spring Swing and Pitch Perfect — and they won gold medals in both. These were the first tournament wins for the team, which practices at the Hub 44 indoor facility in East Hampton during the colder months.

The Church in Sag Harbor has planned “a full day of wonder, fun, and playfulness” for families on Saturday, with activities to get the brain and body going and creative juices flowing. The Spring Jubilee runs from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

As this year’s school budget votes draw closer, schools across the South Fork have finalized their budgets, and budget hearings are beginning.

Three drivers were injured last week in accidents on local roads.

Dr. Aldo O. Perotto, formerly of Springs, a respected physiatrist who specialized in electrodiagnosis for over 40 years, died of complications of dementia on April 1 in Los Angeles.

A Mass in memory of Vincent (Butch) Maher will be said on Sunday at 8:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. Mr. Maher died on Feb. 13.

Like the passing of Vincent (Butch) Maher, whom I wrote about last week, I was equally saddened to learn of the recent loss of Helen S. Rattray. She was a local legend in so many ways.

East Hampton High’s baseball team won all three games of its series last week with Harborfields, thus improving its League V record to 6-3. Plus tennis and lacrosse updates.

A player finds a renewed passion for tennis at East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s 105 doubles clinics, overseen by the club’s longest-serving pro, Dennis Ferrando.

This week's contests for athletes of all ages.

Julius Dayton Parsons, who once ran the Springs General Store, posed for this formal portrait sometime in the 1860s or 1870s, judging from the background and props.

Four submarines mysteriously appeared off Montauk, and a driver in a 24-hour endurance race at the county airport in Westhampton Beach was stopped in his tracks by, yes, a deer collision. And that’s just 1950.

The tributes to Helen S. Rattray roll in.

Setting aside nostalgia for the days when local politics didn’t divide so starkly into blue and red camps, the fact is that single-party rule is simply a bad way to make important decisions.

If there were any doubt about how thoroughly the Trump administration has drunk from the cup of Orwellian doublethink, it has been dispelled.

For Helen S. Rattray, a “testimony and witness to more than a half-century of community life.”