After being closed to the public for more than a decade and with a yearslong renovation project deemed complete, Second House in Montauk, originally built in 1746 and replaced in 1797 following a fire, will soon reopen to the public.

Kim Quarty, who spent 17 years at the Peconic Land Trust, serving as its director of conservation planning, is the foundation’s new executive director.

A record of payments Nathaniel Baker made, mostly as barter, to the heirs of Abraham Schellinger beginning in 1713.

Attention future filmmakers and would-be broadcast TV professionals: LTV has put out the call for applications for both its summer intern program and its community scholarships.

Sag Harbor Village police have received several reports of “swatting” calls, falsely reporting an emergency, from Main Street businesses recently, three involving Sag Pizza and another, last week, involving Apple Bank.

In 1950 a Southold attorney, twice dead, was brought back to life. And more tales, incredible and not-so-incredible, recorded in our venerable pages.

East Hampton Village’s new Flock license-plate reader cameras are having an immediate effect here. Out of 18 arrests reported by village police in the last two weeks, 14 were made with the assistance of the cameras.

A coyote was spotted in the vicinity of Hither Hills State Park in Montauk on the morning of April 7. The man who reported it said he was worried about the safety of neighborhood pets.

Vincent Maher of Manhattan and Springs, a surfer and fisherman who worked for many years as a mate on Montauk sportfishing boats, died on Feb. 13 in Manhattan. He was 78.

In the wake of the March 8 and 9 brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the county’s first southern pine beetle symposium, which happens on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at Suffolk Community College’s Riverhead campus.

Evelyn (Cissy) Bradford Ritz of Bridgehampton, a former teacher in South Fork schools and real estate broker, died last Thursday at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 86.

Kryn Olson, a teacher at the Sag Harbor Elementary School for 25 years, died of a heart attack at home in Sag Harbor on April 3. She was 66.

Visiting hours for Margaret Ora-Lee Capozzola of Montauk will be held on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Robertaccio Funeral Home in Center Moriches.

Visiting hours for Josephine Crasky of Amagansett, who died on Friday, will be on April 24 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

A plan to replace a large asphalt parking area, remove invasive species, and create bio-retention areas that could help filter and capture stormwater runoff before it reaches Lake Montauk moved ahead at the April 8 meeting of the East Hampton Town Board. The West Lake boat ramp, the project target, is large, denuded of vegetation, and its asphalt and hard-packed soil is on a pitch that sends it directly into the lake.

Tuesday is Earth Day, and there are a number of opportunities on the South Fork to celebrate and honor the planet as it contends with myriad environmental stresses.

The present town board may believe that any project it devises is benign, but the members fail to understand that a future board could misuse the relaxation of rules having to do with community-centered projects.

The Trump administration has declared all-out war on higher education, and America’s role as the world leader of scientific and medical progress is at stake.

A feisty young Jewish woman from New Jersey, Helen S. Rattray became the editor and publisher of The Star after her first husband, Everett Rattray, died in 1980 at the age of 47.

A tale of intense culture shock, of seeing America anew.