Two lifeguards, “Dr.” Sam John and Wilmot Baker, notched their 18th save at the Maidstone bathing beach a hundred years ago. Plus much more for you news junkies and history buffs.

We are nearing the peak of hurricane season, which usually arrives in the middle of September, and any that come close to our area in the next few weeks will no doubt affect those who wet a line.

The Hampton Classic Horse Show leaped into action at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton Sunday with leadline classes for 2 through 7-year-olds judged by Joe Fargis, an Olympic gold medalist.

Cristian Candemir, a 30-year-old Montauker, will compete in the Strongman Corporation’s under-200-pound national amateur championships in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 and 13.

Liga de Gulag, riding high in the 7-on-7 men’s soccer league Tuesday evenings in Herrick Park, experienced its first loss of the season on Aug. 19. Plus a wood bat league update.

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Researchers have concluded that powerful hurricanes will continue to be more common. The western arc of the North Atlantic, in particular, is warming faster than many other places on the globe.

In the seemingly never-ending effort to stimulate private affordable housing, East Hampton Town is working on regulations intended to make multiunit development attractive to property owners.

We regret to inform you that your summer is being cut short.

Horns beget more horns, and, where once they were rarely used, they are now a near-constant Main Street intrusion.

All of a sudden the nest is empty, and it’s just me rattling around and opening the refrigerator door and wondering if I need to cook something for dinner or if I should just have Stoned Wheat Crackers and cheese.

Dreams of tennis, yearnings for Queens.

Standing in a fish market, a valued 31-year customer gets a credit card company on the horn, and, oh boy.

On Hamptons realty.

The 33rd Hamptons International Film Festival has announced its opening film, "Eternity," with Elizabeth Olsen, as well as new films from Richard Linklater, Bill Condon, and Eva Victor.

One hundred remarkable artworks from the collection of Lana Jokel, a documentary filmmaker and friend of contemporary artists, are on public view for the first time at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.

Was it a White House cover-up of dangerous incapacity? A plague of self-deception afflicting President Biden and those in his inner circle? Chris Whipple picks through the car wreck that was the 2024 election.

Two music writers and fans ponder why, at the current moment of political divisiveness, protest songs have yet to penetrate the mainstream.

"Middletown," next up in the HamptonsFilm SummerDocs series, tells the story of how in the 1990s a high school English teacher and his students exposed toxic dumping in New York's Orange County.

In collaboration with Hamptons JazzFest, the Jane Ira Bloom Quartet, featuring Ms. Bloom on soprano saxophone, will perform at The Church.