Tom Piacentine was walking to the beach in Amagansett 40 years ago when he stumbled upon what looked like a ball buried in the sand. Though he didn’t yet know it, what he had found was a seemingly authentic World War II-era German steel helmet.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center has been granted 10 more years in its Gingerbread Lane facility, according to a new lease agreement reached this week. 

Abraham’s Path was closed for several hours between Accabonac Road and Town Lane on Saturday afternoon after a man driving a 2015 Cadillac S.U.V. lost control of the vehicle and hit a utility pole.

The Shelter Island Fall 5K, a run and walk to raise awareness and money for the North and South Fork Breast Health Coalitions and Lucia’s Angels, happens on Saturday morning, starting from Crescent Beach.

Police went to CVS Sunday night in East Hampton after a shopper claimed to have found no one available to help and requested a “well-being check of the employees.” There was at least one employee there when officers arrived. He said he’d been “in the back, working.”

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. will moderate a ChangeHampton discussion Sunday on “between property owners and landscape designers, contractors and entrepreneurs” who are using “restorative landscaping, rewilding, and pursuing nature-based solutions to counteract the climate and biodiversity crises.” 

Margot Pena and Douglas Steigerwald’s recent wedding is proof that true love comes when you least expect it. Married last month at Clearwater Beach in Springs overlooking Gardiner’s Bay, the soulmates found each other late in life.

The League of Women Voters is holding debates Monday between candidates for the First Congressional District and those vying to represent the East End in the New York State Senate. Both will be broadcast live on Southampton Town’s SEA-TV YouTube channel, where they will also be available for later viewing. 

While Election Day is still nearly three weeks away, there are several important deadlines coming up in New York. 

As Loretta Davis prepares to leave the Retreat, the domestic violence shelter has announced Cate Carbonaro as her replacement.

Fall festivals, homecoming, and Halloween-themed fun for kids.

In a review of students’ academic performance, extracurricular activities, college preparation, the quality of faculty, and other features by Niche, an online publication that ranks schools, the Ross School has been named the number-one boarding school out of 31 institutions in New York State for 2025. 

This month the Montauk Library has three giant boxes at its front entrance to collect donations for the Montauk Food Pantry, the Retreat, and ARF.

As has been generally expected, the East Hampton Town Board indicated this week that the town’s new senior center will not need to undergo a lengthy environmental review per the State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Work began late last month on a New York State Department of Transportation drainage project on Route 27 at Fort Pond that could ease flooding but add contaminants to the struggling water body. In fact, Concerned Citizens of Montauk says that if the project continues, and the group expects it will, the D.O.T. will be breaking state and federal law by sending unfiltered stormwater directly into the pond. 

Robert Gale Skinner, who taught art at Southampton College from 1966 until he retired in 1996 as a professor emeritus, died on Oct. 4 at home in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. He was 94.    

On the East End, we hear a lot about invasive species in the plant world, but the house sparrow was one of the original invasive species. House sparrows are bullies. They fight over dirt baths. They are nonmigratory, colonize habitat, and then profusely breed. When native migratory birds return to nest in the spring, these pugnacious birds force them away. 

Christine Yuska Cullum, a native of East Hampton, died on Oct. 9 from complications after a fall. She was 93.

The Rev. Benjamin Shambaugh will be back in the pulpit at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church this week after returning from a 10-day stint as chaplain aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Vigorous as it traveled from Panama to Virginia, part of an effort by the Coast Guard to help personnel reintegrate smoothly at home.

Henry C. White, who was a maker of specialty leather goods and wallets, died at home in Delray Beach, Fla., on Sept. 29 after a three-month illness. Formerly a part-time East Hampton resident, he was 86.