The Huntertones, an acclaimed Brooklyn-based band that plays "genre-bending" and "unconventional" covers and original songs, is coming to the Clubhouse on Tuesday evening, featuring the East Hampton High School jazz band as the host and opening act.

At about 10:23 a.m. on Friday people across Long Island and as far away as Albany and New Jersey reported feeling buildings shake and sway slightly, the result of an earthquake that registered 4.8 on the Richter scale in New York and New Jersey.

The Surfrider Foundation is looking for volunteers on Sunday and next Thursday to help it "wake up the gardens" it helps to maintain at the village green between East Hampton Main Street and James Lane and behind the East Hampton Methodist Church. 

Paid Announcement: Judith Lee Suchy of East Hampton died at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Westhampton Beach on Thursday, March 14. She was 82 years old.

New Yorkers are in for quite the show on Monday afternoon: A total solar eclipse is coming our way, and here on the South Fork, astronomers say people will be able to see between 83 and 90 percent totality.

The East Hampton Town Board is discussing legislation that would help it control mooring in town waters, specifically Lake Montauk, and create separate categories for moorings based on their usage.

According to Billboard, 49.61 million vinyl albums were sold in 2023. That marked the 18th consecutive year of growth in the format. And as the appeal of vinyl record albums has continued to expand, Craig Wright, the owner of Innersleeve Records in Amagansett, is following suit by nearly doubling his store's size.

If given the opportunity, a turkey vulture would eat you, your kids, and your little dog, too. Other bird species may be struggling, but the turkey vulture is doing just fine eating dead things. Yes, with increasing signs that the end is nigh, the turkey vulture is a strong candidate for Bird of 2024.

It is not illegal to own roosters in the Town of East Hampton, but not everyone enjoys their enthusiastic way of meeting the morning. But, in the three years Kevin Cooper has served as the director of code enforcement for the town, he has issued only a single ticket for a noise nuisance violation, to a Springs man whose rooster's early-morning calls have sparked a slew of complaints from a neighbor.

“Think of the 2004 cellphone — our code was designed for that cellphone,” Jeremy Samuelson, director of the East Hampton Town Planning Department, told the town board in urging it to adopt a brand-new wireless master plan. “The pandemic alone taught us the extent to which we’re reliant upon these technologies, but our infrastructure wasn’t matching it. We had to take a cultural leap and get to a place where we were saying, ‘This actually is critical infrastructure.’ ”

“For me personally, socialization is very important,” said Vicki Lundin. “The amazing staff at the senior center are caring and highly effective.” But, she said, East Hampton Town's current senior citizens center is too crowded.

Big things are happening in East Hampton High School’s science research program, whose students recently returned from two rounds of the Long Island Science and Engineering Fair with a number of awards — including a first-place finish in the plant sciences competition for Leah Fromm, one of 61 students in the research program who will show off their work at next Thursday’s Science Research Symposium at the high school.

Students and teachers at the Bridgehampton School will soon see more bees buzzing about the campus, fitting for a school whose mascot is the bee. Through a partnership with ReWild Long Island, a nonprofit organization that promotes “sustainable landscaping for biodiversity and climate resilience,” according to its website, Bridgehampton is in the early stages of planning a new pollinator garden.

On March 22, Springs School held its annual World’s Fair celebration, hosted by the school's Diversity Club. “It is about celebrating other countries and their cultures,” the club's adviser, Vicki Firemark, said.

Administrators and board members at the Ross School have approved a reorganization of grade levels at its two campuses, with an eye toward “optimizing resources and enhancing students’ overall educational outcomes,” according to Tom Sturtevant, the head of school.

The second annual East Hampton Village Hamptons Whodunit festival, which features mystery and crime authors, interactive simulated crime scenes, walking tours, panel discussions, and escape rooms, will be launched next Thursday and will continue through next weekend.

In the spring of 1933, 25 East Hampton High School seniors and two chaperones took a class trip to Washington, D.C. In this photo they are seen at Mount Vernon.

Spring is definitely springing, if Project Most’s explosion of new after-school and weekend programs for kids is any indication. In store for this month are workshops on photo collage, sewing, magnetic planters, robotics, and stop-motion animation, and an escape room challenge. And there's more for kids to do at libraries and museums.

A 48-year-old Brooklyn man was seen and heard knocking on doors at Daunt’s Albatross Motel at around 1 a.m. Saturday, and police were summoned. The man was discovered to have an active arrest warrant out of New York Police Department jurisdiction. He was taken to the railroad station to catch the next westbound train.

Peggy Virginia Wilford of East Hampton and Hernando, Fla., a social worker, died on March 24 at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead at the age of 87. A funeral will be held on Friday, April 5, at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton.