A key policy change this year at the Springs School will be to its safety and security plan, a document that outlines its response to a real-life emergency or disaster should one arise. “Drills that are conducted during the school day with students present need to be conducted in what we’re calling a trauma-informed, developmentally-and-age-appropriate manner," the superintendent said this week.

Summer’s almost over, kids — school is right around the corner.

A red-and-black lawn mower said to have cost $15,000 was reported stolen from outside Love Adorned, in Amagansett Square, on the morning of Aug. 20. The mower left tire tracks in the grass leading toward the exit.

A North Carolina man was arrested on a charge of damaging private property, a class-E felony, after an incident at Ruschmeyer’s in Montauk early Saturday morning.

The East Hampton Town Police Department received nine calls about pesticide peddlers in Montauk, Springs, Northwest Harbor, and Wainscott between Aug. 21 and Aug. 23.

The mud flat at the terminus of Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton Village is often occupied by Wilson’s snipe, a secretive bird of bogs; green-winged teal, killdeer, and greater yellowlegs. Somehow they favor this place, despite the presence of a 24-inch pipe that drains untreated stormwater into Georgica Cove.

A mosquito sample from East Hampton Town was one of 26 new samples to test positive for the West Nile virus in Suffolk County, the County Health Department announced on Aug. 19.

From angels to dogs and what’s out of context, here comes a load of reader comment.

A hundred years ago, a car came barreling onto a Maidstone Club green, to the astonishment of golfers and a caddy, who had to scramble to avoid being hit. And more adventures from the pages of The Star of yore.

Real estate, real estate, and more South Fork real estate.

While the demands made on local services and infrastructure are real, little of the short-term rental income remains in the community.

As far as seasonal pursuits like swimming, sailing, and eating white corn go, we plan to continue to pretend it’s still summer up through October, but otherwise, an early autumn sounds great.

If you’ve never been to the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s annual powwow on Labor Day weekend, here’s your chance.

If she becomes president, Kamala Harris could be the last of the baby boom generation to occupy the Oval Office.

My ballet teacher was Gordon Peavy, who had his studio in the Odd Fellows Hall on Newtown Lane, above what is now the Chanel store.

Good times on the jumbotron as the New York Metropolitans get the ballpark rocking on $5 Tuesday.

When are our words about a garden, and when are they about our relationship?

Much of summer on the South Fork is associated with crowded beaches, packed shops and restaurants, and people flooding in from elsewhere to spend time in the fresh air and sunshine. However, when the summer gives way to fall and winter, it becomes a whole different place.

"Feast — A Still Life" at the Women's Art Center of the Hamptons features work by seven artists who celebrate food.

The vocalist Christine Andreas will bring the music of Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, and others to LTV Studios.