The East Hampton Town Board passed three resolutions that will ensure the continued operation of the child care program at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center after the Economic Opportunity Council of Suffolk pulls out, with Project Most set to take over in July.

On March 18, eighth graders from Springs School visited Liberty Island and Ellis Island thanks to the school's PTA.

For the 2024-25 school year, the Bridgehampton School District will likely put a $22.64 million spending plan before taxpayers for the May 21 budget vote. It has yet to be formally adopted by the school board, however, as numbers can still change pending the outcome of budget talks between the New York State Legislature and Gov. Kathy Hochul.

Over the objections of dozens of parents and teachers, and without waiting for the New York State Legislature to sort out funding to school districts by way of an established state budget, Amagansett became the first school district in East Hampton Town this week to finalize its 2024-25 budget.

Most school districts on Long Island are struggling to rein in tax-levy increases for next year’s budgets, with some planning teacher layoffs and program reductions in the face of harsh inflation and the possible loss of millions of dollars in New York State funding, but that’s not the case in Montauk, where in June of 2023, a school board member discovered a discrepancy in his school tax bill that will lead to a tax credit for Montauk homeowners next year.

Window strikes kill up to a billion birds annually and rank up there with cats and habitat destruction as the leading causes of recent steep declines. After the recent death of a much-watched Eurasian eagle-owl that was set loose from the Central Park Zoo, a bill calling for bird-friendly building measures has been revived in the New York Assembly and Senate.

Fearing an underwater land rush, the Sag Harbor Village Board voted unanimously to limit the number of moorings allowed in the outermost area of its jurisdiction.

Michele L’Hommedieu Hofmann had no idea until retiring last fall and starting to research her family history how prominent a role her great-great-grandfather James H. L’Hommedieu had played in Long Island’s late-19th-century architecture. On a trip to New York that included a stop at an East Hampton house he designed for Robert Southgate Bowne, a founder of the Maidstone Club and first president of the Long Island Rail Road, she and her family got a crash course in L’Hommedieu’s work.

Jennifer Close Mulligan, who was active in the L.V.I.S. and the East Hampton Library, died on March 2 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 76.

An actress whose career included both film and television credits, Jennifer Leak D’Auria of Jupiter, Fla., died at home there on March 18. Formerly of East Hampton and Amagansett, she was 76.

Timothy R. Reilly of Anniston, Ala., who grew up here and graduated from East Hampton High School in 1965, died last Thursday at the Clay County Nursing Home in Alabama.

The East Hampton Village Fire Department doesn’t usually respond to fires in the middle of the Ozark Mountains, but in a sense, after donating a Spartan pumper fire truck, replete with 4,000 feet of hose and a 500-gallon water tank, to the Eminence Area Volunteer Fire Department in Missouri Friday, it’s done just that.

With summer approaching, efforts to beautify East Hampton Town will soon ramp up.

Christine Ganitsch of the town’s litter action committee told the town trustees on Monday that the second annual No-Fling Spring “is a way to put focus on the litter problem we have here in East Hampton and to get everyone involved in mitigating the problem.”

The Shelter Island Democratic Committee has endorsed John Avlon’s campaign to represent New York’s First Congressional District. The endorsement is Mr. Avlon’s third from a town Democratic committee, following those from East Hampton and Southampton.

The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing on draft legislation regarding the All-Electric Building Act that was recommended by the town’s energy and sustainability advisory committee last year, but it indicated that it would not support all of the committee’s recommendations in the proposed legislation.

On July 16, 1889, while staying in Lenox, Mass., Sarah Diodati Gardiner Thompson wrote to her daughter Sarah Thompson Gardiner, who was vacationing at Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire. Family news was top of mind.

At his house in East Hampton Village, a 61-year-old man dropped a lighted cigarette on the floor, sparking a minor fire-and-smoke situation. The fire chief described the extent of the damage as “smoldering clothing.”

A pond cleanup, spring-themed crafts, and more for kids and families.

It was 1899, and Telegraph Operator McCord called it quits. Plus other tidbits from The Star of Yore.

John Ryan Jr., the chief of East Hampton Town’s lifeguards for the past 34 years, was recently named as a delegate to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States Lifesaving Association.