Residents of Sag Harbor have come together to denounce what some see as a troubling wave of chain stores. A petition launched by Save Sag Harbor that calls for new legislation to define and limit “formula retail” or “chain establishments” in the village has been signed by over 500 people in the last week.

The Sag Harbor restaurant had been on the market as its owner looked to retire, but the announcement that its final days of service would be last weekend took some, including longtime employees, by surprise.

An Indian peafowl of unknown origin has been roaming a neighborhood in Clearwater Beach in Springs since at least December, but despite plenty of attention on neighborhood apps and Facebook, no one has claimed the bird.

The pharmacist Frank Calvo’s efforts, and patience, have been recognized by New York State. He learned this month that the State Small Business Development Center has named Montauk Chemists its 2026 Rural Small Business of the Year.

After 15 years in Sag Harbor, GeekHampton, which sells and services Apple products, will close on Tuesday at 6 p.m. It will reopen on May 4 in Hampton Bays.

The Wainscott Tree Society will hold this year’s Arbor Day tree planting on April 24 at 1 p.m. at the Wainscott Post Office. A London plane tree donated by members of the society and provided at a discount by Whitmores Tree Farm will be planted.

Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences will deliver “State of the Bays 2026: No Time to Waste” on Friday, April 24, at 7 p.m. at the Avram Theater on the Stony Brook Southampton campus.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will host a program on serving on a town board advisory committee on Monday from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

The public access news show, a joint effort of television veterans and those new to the business, fills a programming void.

This Thomas Dering and John Hulbert letter had to do with issuing permits of return to those who’d fled Long Island during the British occupation, which is also the topic of the next Tom Twomey lecture Friday night at the East Hampton Library.

Herbert Stanford Podell, a founding partner at New York State’s largest tax certiorari practice, died at home in Palm Beach, Fla., on April 9. A part-time East Hampton resident, he was 94.

Effie Jane DeCristofaro, who worked at the East Hampton Laundry on Race Lane and later did domestic work for many families here, died at home in Springs on April 17. She was 92.

An English teacher and poet recommends two books of poetry, and shares some of her own.

Recent real estate transactions here.

As prescient as our anti-development forefathers were, no one seems to have predicted what the real murderer of our Main Street small businesses would be: “luxury blight.”

At one point last year, 10 separate signs stood alongside the highway at the supposed “gateway” to East Hampton.

In our sixth decade and beyond, we no longer bounce when we hit the ground.

Time to talk about candy again!

When a congressional committee led by Frank Church exposed our government’s widespread intelligence abuses.

Here is a simple solution to solving the affordable housing problem in East Hampton while preventing our businesses from dying.