Michael Rodgers, a longtime Amagansett School gym teacher and administrator affectionately called Coach Rodgers by colleagues, students, and parents, has been appointed superintendent of the district.

Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 academic year. The council is open to any East Hampton-area high school student with a love and appreciation of the arts.

Richard Sawyer, the man behind Treely Yours and the Salty Dog, once split a cord’s worth of hardwood in 32 minutes and 30 seconds.

A Rolex watch was the subject of a dispute late Saturday night between a man and a woman, both intoxicated, on Main Street in front of the Point Bar and Grill. Each of them claimed to own the watch, so an officer took it to the Montauk precinct until documentation could be provided. The watch turned out to belong to neither of them. The man’s father showed up in the morning with a copy of an insurance policy showing the Rolex was in fact his.

From a hair-raising double drowning in Plum Gut to a second-story deck collapsing under the weight of too many partyers in Sagaponack, The Star reported it all.

John Simons, a former Montauk commercial fisherman known to friends as Johnny Angel, died on May 15 in Virginia Beach. The cause was emphysema and lung cancer.

Joe Zucker, whose work is in the permanent collections of more than 40 museums worldwide, died on May 15 at home in East Hampton. He was 82.

Fishing-wise, things are much better than my 62-year-old body or my Jeep Wrangler’s transmission.

The East Hampton High School girls track team scored 56 points, its highest total ever, at the Suffolk County meet on May 20. The boys, a small team that is rebuilding, fared well too.

The Ross School boys tennis team won the county’s small schools tournament at Smithtown East High School Friday, besting Bayport-Blue Point, last year’s finalist, by a score of 4-3.

From the Montauk Rugby Club toughing it out in the top 10, to a first season of Bonac lacrosse, it happened here.

A rundown of sporting action in the week ahead, from tennis and baseball playoffs to an awards dinner.

Our mailbag overfloweth.

We’re not sure how likely it is that that the Protect Our Pedestrians Act will be able to sidestep the usual Albany roadblocks, but the issue it reflects is an increasingly important one.

As East Hamptoners gathered under gray skies to honor and celebrate Memorial Day, people were reminded to take time to recognize the meaning of the holiday.

It was with profound befuddlement that news was received in this office, last week, that John Drew Theater at Guild Hall had been renamed.

Down where I live, within feet of the marsh, the buzz is constant from about the end of May until early October.

We dweebs go into the city about once a decade.

Making like a trucker, hell-bent on Myrtle Beach.

The idea of downing a brisk brew now and again is growing on me. It seems to match my middle-aged self, my slower self, my more contented self.