LeTip, a networking group made up of professionals from different industries that meets weekly in Bridgehampton, is venturing a bit farther west, to Union Burger Bar in Southampton Village, for its next event.

Kmart, a longtime anchor tenant in the Bridgehampton Commons, has hired the liquidator Eldon W. Gottschalk & Associates to handle the sale of the store contents in advance of the store's permanent closure on Oct. 20.

Kmart, a longtime anchor tenant in the Bridgehampton Commons, has hired the liquidator Eldon W. Gottschalk & Associates to handle the sale of the store contents in advance of the store's permanent closure on Oct. 20.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North fork will host a free informational forum at LTV Studios on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to "explore the role of a trustworthy news media in a democracy and how to identify and combat" online misinformation and disinformation.

The Hamptons Film Festival has added three new narrative features to its previously announced slate of films.

A summer fund-raising campaign at Citarella markets on the South Fork brought in $126,680 for the East End Fund for Children, which supports seven child-centered nonprofits here. 

The Lance Cpl. Jordan Haerter Veterans Memorial Bridge is the latest iconic Sag Harbor structure to become a Cat's Meow Village replica.

A case of pertussis, commonly known as whooping cough, has been confirmed at Sag Harbor Elementary School.

A 34-year-old homeless man accused of kidnapping and robbing three young East Hampton men at knifepoint on Sept. 3 pleaded not guilty to five felony charges at his arraignment before Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Timothy Mazzei on Wednesday.

A remembrance gathering for Anne Bronson Bradley, formerly of Sagaponack, will be held on Sept. 28 from noon to 3 p.m. at 116 Lawrence Road, Fairfield, Conn. Ms. Bradley died on Sept. 9 in Ribiers, France. Memorial donations have been suggested to the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons, P.O. Box 2616, East Hampton, 11937.

Spring is associated with cleaning, sure, but the East Hampton Town Litter Action Committee sees no problem with celebrating the first day of autumn with a good once-over. On Saturday, as part of National CleanUp Day, committee members will hit the roadsides for this year’s sprucing.

The bridge that spans the outflow from Pussy’s Pond in Springs into Accabonac Harbor off Old Stone Highway will soon be repaired, and an eighth-of-an-acre sea of phragmites removed.

It has been 15 years since East Hampton had an active PTSA, but that's about to change. On Sept. 30, East Hampton High School’s newly rebooted PTSA organization will convene a charter meeting at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom.

After months of open discussion on the merits of the traditional system of class ranking for Pierson High School seniors, the Sag Harbor School District appears poised to end or replace the practice while still naming a valedictorian and salutatorian.

According to the faculty at Pierson Middle and High School in Sag Harbor, the Yondr pouch program for cellphones has been a success. The school board is also largely in favor of it.

Sag Harbor Village is reviewing bids for work to connect two sewersheds to the village’s wastewater treatment system, all of which came in higher than expected.

Voters will gather next Thursday at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor to vote on the annual budget, elect three library board members, and weigh in on propositions to provide funding for the Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum and the Eastville Community Historical Society.

A minke whale touched down briefly, alive, just west of Montauk’s Kirk Park Beach on Monday. It later moved off the beach, died, and has since been drifting about a mile offshore, according to Timothy Treadwell, East Hampton Town’s senior harbormaster. Marine Patrol had been monitoring the animal but lost sight of it by yesterday.

Recognizing the challenges of housing costs even for people earning too much to qualify for affordable housing, East Hampton Town's housing director and Councilman Ian Calder-Piedmonte floated the idea of employee housing overlay districts that might “provide an avenue for private development of a needed form of housing.”

The Springs General Store achieved a victory at the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals last week, being granted its request for a natural resources special permit. It was needed because parking, fencing, and decking would be installed within 150 feet of wetlands. Don’t expect them to start churning out coffee and egg sandwiches just yet, however. The store still needs site plan approval from the town’s planning and architectural review boards.