Sag Harbor Mayor Tom Gardella was obstinate in his decision to remain mayor after an otherwise unanimous village board censured him and asked for his resignation this week.

Leo L. Snyder, a carpenter and 35-year employee of the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works, died at home in East Hampton on April 9 at the age of 78.

Nelda Elvira Brickner, who with her husband owned and operated the 1770 House in East Hampton Village from 1968 to 1975, died in hospice care on April 1 in East Northport. She was 98.

While residents continue to bemoan the air traffic and noise associated with the airport here, the Wainscott C.A.C. heard about a public data platform that tracks every flight to and from the airport, with noise impact modeled down to individual properties.

Vigorous conversation continues over the town’s management plan for the Osborn Homestead at 66 Main Street in Wainscott, purchased in 2024 for $56 million.

The governor announced that the state is requesting a federal disaster designation for Suffolk aquaculture after the fierce winter, but commercial fishermen say not so fast.

A house on Bay View Avenue in Amagansett, infamous for a temporary wall of beach-blocking geocubes that stayed for years, was before the town Z.B.A. as its owners presented an environmental review of a plan to build a permanent 108-foot-long rock revetment.

Long-discussed improvements to a rest stop on the south side of Montauk Highway at the headwaters of Georgica Pond in Wainscott could be complete this time next year, as this week the town board agreed to a plan.

The challenges were many for the scores of candidates seeking to fill 38 slots on the Democratic Committee when they gathered signatures between late February and early April as the June 23 primary looms.

A town trustee angrily defended his actions in the disposal of hundreds of geese killed by bird flu, dismissing “social media comments” by “nobody that’s actually there” and singling out a former trustee who no longer lives here.

The manager of a North Main Street business reported a “defaming” Yelp review to police last week. He identified the writer of the review as a former employee.

REEB, a brass band made up of music educators, will headline an East Hampton High School P.T.S.A. fund-raiser on Friday, April 24, at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.

East Hampton High School’s Bonac Bots did even better than first thought in their first-ever robotics competition at Hofstra University last month, finishing 15th out of 48 teams.

The birder from Miller Place identified 319 species across Suffolk in 2025, a record for the county.

The Surfrider Foundation’s Eastern Long Island Chapter and the Group for the East End have invited all to an Earth Day dune grass planting coastal restoration get-together at what is popularly known as Baby Beach at Maidstone Park in Springs on Saturday from 9 to 11 a.m.

Joe Rose, a member of the village Z.B.A., delivered an impassioned rebuke to his colleagues on Friday, slamming their decision to grant multiple variances and a wetlands permit to the owners of 15 Jones Road.

The image seen here from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows a typical scene at the Girls Scouts’ 179-acre Camp Blue Bay on Gardiner’s Bay.

The town is in contract to purchase the 4.14-acre Pathfinder Day Camp in Montauk, using community preservation fund money, Councilman David Lys announced at Tuesday’s work session.

The day in 1976 when a town trustee was mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. And other choice nuggets from our past coverage.

Thoughts for Jerry Schwabe and Charles Morici.