The majority of East Hampton High’s eight springs sports teams saw action last week, the results of their contests, while mixed, constituting a rather good start to the season.

Montauk was the destination of long-distance running and beach-walking fund-raising efforts last week — a five-day run from Lake George in support of mental health counseling, and a four-day beach walk for early colorectal screening that began at Robert Moses State Park and ended in downtown Montauk in time for Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Montauk was the destination of long-distance running and beach-walking fund-raising efforts last week — a five-day run from Lake George in support of mental health counseling, and a four-day beach walk for early colorectal screening that began at Robert Moses State Park and ended in downtown Montauk in time for Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day parade.

East Hampton High’s softball team set a record with three over-the-fence home runs — by Maryjane Vickers, Isabel Briand, and Alexa Schaffer — in its home opener here with Hauppauge, but the visitors wound the winner.

This week's schedule of high school sports contests.

A shared special education program being developed by the East Hampton, Amagansett, Springs, and Montauk School Districts is slated to be open for the 2026-27 school year on the Springs campus, according to Nancy Carney, that district’s superintendent.

On March 14, President Trump signed an executive order that would strip the Institute of Museum and Library Services, established in 1996 and the only source of federal funds for the state library, to its bones. The state library is the sole conduit through which state and federal aid flows, providing support services to libraries across the state and reducing redundancies.

Five years after an eight-acre parcel comprising four lots, across from the Wolffer Estate Vineyard in Sag­aponack, was purchased for agricultural use with money from the South­ampton Town Community Preservation Fund, it remains fallow, and Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt are now asking the Southampton Town Board to switch the parcel’s use to protect Poxabogue Pond, which the land borders.

The East Hampton Town Board approved a resolution Tuesday to fire Police Officer Andrea Kess, a move her attorney said was payback for her own complaints against the Police Department.

“People buy illegal temporary tags online, and they get away with it until police suspect something fishy about the plate, or until they’re stopped for an ordinary traffic infraction,” according to East Hampton Village Detective Sgt. Jennifer Dunn. That was the case last week, when a temporary tag led police to discover that the vehicle's registration was apparently fraudulent.

In a pilot program that he has been running since he was a freshman, Charlie Stern, a junior at East Hampton High School, determined that the school has thrown out over 100,000 plastic utensils in that time. Now, he's asking the district to consider ditching the plasticware.

When the East Hampton Y.M.C.A. Hurricanes swim team competed in the state meet at the Webster Aquatic Center in Webster, N.Y., the Springs School fifth grader Novella Dunham won five state championships. Asked how it felt to be a five-time state champ, Novella said that the event helped build her confidence to make her a better swimmer. “I think all of the swimmers did great and I’m excited to have the next meet.”

East Hampton High School’s science research symposium returns next Thursday evening at 6, and it is open to the public. The symposium gives students an opportunity to present the scientific research they have been working on.

Construction of the new aquatic and cultural spaces at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center is slated to be done by the end of June, according to Sarah Iudicone, president of the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation. The date for the public opening, however, is still up in the air.

A hacker disrupted the Zoom portion of last Thursday’s Sag Harbor Village Board budget meeting, displaying pornographic images alongside racial and antisemitic slurs on the twin screens in the meeting room. “Those disgusting images are etched in my brain,” said the board’s Bob Plumb.

Hamptons Whodunit, a mystery and true-crime festival now in its third year in East Hampton Village, kicks off with a cocktail party at the Maidstone Club April 10 and continues with three days of discussions, tours, book signings, and interactive events.

Bridgehampton’s Atlantic House is an excellent example of the tradition of structural reuse hereabouts.

In 1950, farmers on the East End could take advantage of a new weather information service. In 1975, Sag Harbor Village officials got ribbed over their salaries. And, as always, much more.

Someone said to be dressed in a Boy Scout uniform was spotted peering into the windows of a Wheelock Walk house on Friday. Police did not find the person.

People will gather in East Hampton, Sag Harbor, and communities across the country on Saturday for a nationwide “day of action” organized by Hands Off 2025.