To those who saw Bay Street Theater’s recent production of “The Subject Was Roses,” John Slattery, Talia Balsam, and Harry Slattery are celebrities. But to Holly Wheaton, director of the Springs Food Pantry, they’re just “everyday folks who saw a need and wanted to help” when Covid-19 caused people to flock to the pantry for assistance. They are the honorees at the pantry's E.A.T. in the Garden benefit this year.

At more than two dozen popular water recreation spots, environmental groups have teamed up on weekly testing for a bacteria that points to whether it’s wise to swim, paddleboard, or otherwise spend time in the water.

A recent headline in The New York Post about Mecox Bay, noting that one of its beaches is “ranked as one of the worst for fecal matter in nation,” caused a stir, but a new nonprofit group with former Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman at the helm is poised to do something about it.

Uncommon.org, a nonprofit that takes coding and computer science education to children and young adults in Zimbabwe, will hold a fund-raiser in East Hampton on July 20. Founded by Peter Kazickas, formerly of Amagansett, Uncommon.org has grown from a 2017 pilot program providing 20 laptops to young people to a full-fledged nonprofit reaching 5,000 young people.

Victor D'Amico's Art Barge began as a pilot program of classes sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, seen here.

The Art Barge on Napeague, a nonprofit institute formally also known as the D’Amico Institute of Art, continues Victor and Mabel D’Amico’s tradition of the Children’s Art Carnival this summer in weeklong sessions. Plus: Story time, puppet shows, children's museum fair, arts and crafts, yoga for toddlers, and more coming up for kids and teens.

Since age 4, Ryder Nadel and his father have spent endless hours roaming dunes and shorelines collecting the garbage that harms the marine animals Ryder loves. Some of his finds are now on display in an exhibition at the East Hampton Town Marine Museum, where he has been a camper in the summer program for the last three years.

After noting sharp spikes in dissolved oxygen levels at a test site on Fort Pond in Montauk last week, Concerned Citizens of Montauk again tested water at the site this week and detected the first toxic blue-green algae bloom of the season in the pond.

“For existing rooms in existing houses” was the common refrain at the Sag Harbor Village Board meeting Tuesday night, when a resolution allowing short-term room rentals in owner-occupied residences was unanimously approved.

The Montauk Library has appealed to the community for help in winning a new bench — one that would also be a win for the environment.

The East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board granted a rare height variance to Bobby Flay, the celebrity chef and cookbook author, for a 7,405-square-foot barn he plans to reconstruct on his Stony Hill Road property in Amagansett.

Lt. Chelsea Tierney of the East Hampton Town police talked with the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee on the subject of e-bikes, which may replace gas-powered leaf blowers as the summer’s number-one irritants. There are rules for e-bikes, though many riders (and their parents) seem not to know them.

Owners of four properties on Soundview Drive in Montauk found little support for their request to have the East Hampton Town Board grant a code change that would have made it easier for them to armor their properties with coastal erosion structures.

A guest at the Ocean Resort Inn in Montauk went for a beach walk on June 6 and tossed his pants over his shoulder while walking, he told police. Some cards, his Airpods, and $250 fell out of a pocket, he later realized, and when he retraced his steps he found a group of youths going through his possessions. When confronted, the group fled in a car. Police located it, and after the mother of one boy arrived on the scene the man was reimbursed.

The boy pulled unconscious from a North Haven pool on Sunday died on Wednesday at Stony Brook University Hospital, Southampton Town police confirmed on Thursday.

Joseph M. Schuttler, a postal worker who served in the East Hampton Fire Department and the ambulance association, died on June 29 at the GrayBrier Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Trinity, N.C. He was 85.

Eleanor Marie Glennon, a cosmetologist who owned her own hair salon for 46 years in Bohemia, where she was born and raised, died after a stroke at home in Amagansett on June 22. She was 92.

A memorial service for Lois Fortune-Maginley, a producer for many years with the Children’s Television Workshop, will be held on Sunday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. She died on Jan. 2 at the age of 77.

John Burr Northrop Jr., an armed services veteran and bond salesman who played an unlikely role in the Watergate scandal, died on May 1 in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 96 and had been a summer resident of East Hampton for many years.

Audrey Flack, Abstract Expressionist, Photorealist, and sculptor, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on June 28. She was 93 and divided her time between East Hampton and New York City.