“It’s not like I went to the moon or anything, but it’s something I did that was pretty cool when I was 10 years old,” Billy Strong said, before objecting to someone else “taking credit” for a 1976 "Jaws"-inspired prank at Town Pond.

Mashashimuet Park could be getting a new entrance, Sag Harbor Village’s deputy mayor, Ed Haye, announced at Tuesday night’s village board meeting. It would be moved south of its current location, he said, onto the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, and could be folded into Suffolk County’s planned renovation to that road.

The East Hampton Town Board discussed on Tuesday the procedure for when members of the architectural review board or the zoning board of appeals must be absent from meetings and an alternate must be formally accepted into the process.

Police went to Iacono’s Farm on Long Lane on the morning of Nov. 20 to investigate a theft of eggs. Apparently two people, whose identities were redacted, had taken three boxes of eggs from the honor box outside without paying. One of them agreed to pay $24 in restitution.

A single-car accident on Three Mile Harbor Road in Springs, in which a driver struck mailboxes and shrubs by the side of the road, led to an arrest on a charge of felony drunken driving on the night of Nov. 30.

This week’s load of reader comment, with a note about the holiday deadlines for the next batch of letters to the editor.

From 1949 water worries on the eve of massive Long Island development to the small triumph of halting gun sales at the Bridgehampton Kmart, it happened here, news junkies.

A call to give landmark status to about 30 acres in Wainscott recently bought by East Hampton Town should be heeded.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, is a Senate vote away from becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

The intersection at Cedar and North Main Streets and a bit farther north at the split of Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Roads are two areas that desperately need a fresh set of painted lines.

Boating season came to an end with a whimper, though in my imagination the year was not going to be like this.

The music room in my house is what “the parlor” was to Americans in the mid-20th century: the room that time forgot.

A divine stay at a monastery turned hotel in Pittsburgh.

Coming full circle in a job that’s as important as ever.

The Great Chain of Being — a scatological take.

So many real estate moves, so little time.

Ethan Mitchell, who coaches East Hampton High School’s wrestling team, sent 23 competitors to the mats in Saturday’s Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament here. Eight of them reached the semifinal round, and four made it to the finals.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team began its season last week with losses to Half Hollow Hills-Kings Park and to Ward Melville, but notched a number of personal bests and county-qualifying times in the process.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball season is to begin in earnest Friday with the Kendall Madison Tip-Off tournament here. Bridgehampton, Shelter Island, and the Ross School are the other teams contending.

The timeless draw of rugby, and memories of a triumphant Sprig Gardner wrestling tournament.