Some 1,600 riders and horses, Olympians among them, are to begin strutting their stuff at the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton on Sunday.

Sergey Avramenko, a native of Belarus who lives in Hampton Bays, topped a field of 716 at Ellen’s Run in Southampton Sunday in support of the Ellen Hermanson Foundation’s work here to diagnose and treat breast cancer.

A trip to the North Fork to pick up 1,000 oyster spat from the Cornell Cooperative Extension Marine Center means it was time to replenish my North Haven stock.

East Hampton Town police and Suffolk County Crime Stoppers are searching for a suspect involved in what they called a home invasion on Old Stone Highway late Monday afternoon.

A Suffolk County Criminal Court judge set bail at $2 million cash each for two men charged earlier this month with drug trafficking in an alleged East Hampton operation that Assistant District Attorney Rob Archer said racked up $1 million in proceeds.

The Fire Department-sponsored fireworks show scheduled for Saturday night at East Hampton Village's Main Beach has been canceled, with a potential new date to be announced in the next two weeks. Main Beach has also been closed to swimming for the time being.

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Fire Department volunteers responded Wednesday night to a house on Cosdrew Lane, in East Hampton's Northwest Woods, where the basement had become smoky and electricity had partially gone out.

There will be no basement at the new East Hampton Town senior center, or Center for Modern Aging, as Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez is calling it.

In June, when Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Jerry Garguilo ordered the dissolution of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, the only question left unanswered was what would happen with the nearly $400,000 in the association’s bank account.

While an earlier meeting in July addressed residents’ most immediate concern — frequent and long-lasting electrical outages at the East Hampton Village Manufactured Home Community — a follow-up meeting last week addressed issues with septic tanks, roads, and general safety, in addition to the electrical issues.

After a bumpy rollout back in April, the Suffolk County on-demand bus network in East Hampton appears to be running smoothly as it nears the end of its first summer in operation.

A Sag Harbor woman took down two trees and is now facing two charges: One for removing a tree of over 12 inches in diameter without a permit, and one for removing a tree that was on village property.

A proposed project at the old Stern’s site would see 32 to 48 units built for local workers — privately funded. Unlike regular affordable housing, there would be no financial involvement or oversight from any federal, state, or town agency.

A tale of two artists: This Star photo by Helen Harrison shows the 8-foot-by-20-foot mural Jimmy Ernst painted on David Shaw’s Amagansett house.

Are you someone living in Suffolk County who enjoys reading? If so, there’s still time to join the Summer Library Tour, a program of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System running through Aug. 31. The goal is to visit as many libraries as possible, according to an announcement.

Traffic was in the sights of the Sag Harbor Village Board Tuesday night, as members rejected two proposals to stem the incessant flow and issued a request for more, hoping to bring in some new engineering voices.

With a recent surge in demand from hospitals, the New York Blood Center is in urgent need of type O+ and O- donors. The organization is seeing the lowest levels of donated blood since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic, according to a release.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will host its annual Bow Wow Meow Ball on Saturday to commemorate its 50th anniversary with a night of cocktails, dinner, and dancing the proceeds of which support ARF’s work to help animals in need.

The Montauk Historical Society, Eastville Community Historical Society, and the Southampton African American Museum have come together to organize Amistad Week, a series of educational and commemorative events beginning next Thursday, centered around the 128-foot schooner Amistad, a replica of a vessel that held an infamous place in world history.