After a man exposed himself in front of two women whom he’d been hanging out with near the Montauk 7-Eleven store on the morning of Sept. 7, they called the police. He ran off.

After two and a half years in front of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, the Huntting Inn’s quest for a pool and other improvements may fail. The reason? The Z.B.A. may not have the authority to grant the approval, even if it saw fit to do so.

This whaling log, kept by Edward Mulford Baker (1810-1856), documents two voyages aboard the ship Daniel Webster. The first took place between 1833 and 1837, departing from Sag Harbor for the Pacific Ocean. Baker was first mate under Capt. Philetus Pierson (1801-1879) and documented the journey only between Aug. 27 and Sept. 19, 1833.

A peek into the past, courtesy of the East Hampton Star archive.

Louis E. Sherry Sr., who grew up on Sherry’s Dairy Farm in Southampton and worked as a milkman from East Hampton to Montauk for many years, died on June 25. Most recently of LaGrangeville and Berkshire upstate, he was 86.

Richard B. Spero Jr., a lifelong resident of East Hampton who ran a pool service company here, died of cardiac arrest at home in East Hampton Village on Aug. 28. He was 57.

Tim Tibus was a rock-and-roll kind of guy who liked to have a good time, with his black cowboy boots, long hair, silver rings, and heavy-metal T-shirts. But he was also kind and loyal, friends recalled this week. A Springs resident since the 1990s, he died of a heart attack at home on Saturday. He was 61.

Janet L. Grossman came from a long line of medical doctors in a family that valued education. It made sense, then, that she would go on to travel extensively and study design and architecture abroad, and later became the first woman in her family to earn a Ph.D., specializing in human resources and adult education at the Fielding Institute in California in the late 1980s. She died of pulmonary fibrosis at home in Sag Harbor on Aug. 27. She was 89.

There's been plenty of whale action visible from the beaches, and it's been a stellar week for inshore and offshore fishing, with fluke, striped bass, porgy galore, and tuna farther out.

A report on East Hampton's fall sports seasons, all now in full swing in football, girls swimming, girls tennis, boys cross-country, field hockey, and boys volleyball.

Liam Knight, who recently competed with the U.S. team in the world lifesaving championships in Australia, said in an email this week that “it was amazing to see lifesaving as a sport in which people from all over the world engage.”

Last winter Bryan Wish, the coach of the Peconic Hockey Foundation’s U-12 hockey team, said he intended to enter a freshman team in Suffolk County’s high school hockey league come the fall, and, indeed, that has come to pass.

“It wasn’t a beautiful game,” Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, said on leaving the field after last Thursday’s 2-0 loss — the first of the league season for the Bonackers — to Half Hollow Hills West.

Solutions to problems, political opinions, and more from Star readers this week.

It’s been a long, long time since we actually were amped about a candidate for political office, but we are very much amped for John Avlon as a stellar candidate here in the First Congressional District.

Turnout is what ultimately determines tight elections. To a great extent, the idea of swing voters is outdated in these highly polarized times. What matters now is which party can get more of its side off the couch than the other.

The clock is ticking down to Election Day, Nov. 5. Are you ready? Today is a good day to make extra sure there’s no snafu.

There is a certain kind of camaraderie that occurs at the counter of the beer store that I believe happens nowhere else.

For all those curious about recent real estate transactions on the South Fork, this week's recorded deed transfers.

I learned from a cheap book I read once on dream decoding, back when we read books, that if you dream of swimming or of the sea that what you are really dreaming about is your subconscious.