Last weekend was a busy one for East Hampton Village lifeguards, who made a total of 22 saves.

The East Hampton School District has embarked on a study with a consultant on the feasibility of putting electric school buses into service beginning three years from now.

With mosquito samples from the South Fork so far testing negative for West Nile virus, East Hampton Town and other areas on the South Fork have avoided the county's aerial spraying this season, but that could change. “We’re still only halfway through the season. I would expect to see some West Nile virus activity in our traps in the coming weeks,” a Suffolk Health Department official said.

Forget the white pants or the crisp, sky blue shirts. Traffic-cone orange is the color of summer 2024 in East Hampton Village. “It’s a disaster. We want to make sure residents understand it’s not the village doing the work, it’s the D.O.T.,” Marcos Baladron, the village administrator, said about the multiple construction zones that have been impacting travel along Route 27, a state road that doubles as the village’s Main Street.

Amid a pervading sense of uncertainty — politics and international affairs being what they are — something positive is happening here, as a rabbi and a minister engage in friendly dialogue and instructive commentary on “the best parables of Jewish and Christian literature.”

East Hampton Library’s annual free Children’s Fair is set for Sunday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at Herrick Park, with rides, carnival games, food, performers, crafts, and authors signing their children’s books.

The application process for the Green at Gardiner’s Point, the East Hampton Housing Authority's newest affordable housing project, opened up only two months ago, but 543 applications for the Three Mile Harbor Road project have come in since. On Friday, Katy Casey, executive director of the housing authority, presided over a preliminary lottery, to assign the order in which applicants will be vetted.

The application process for the Green at Gardiner’s Point, the East Hampton Housing Authority's newest affordable housing project, opened up only two months ago, but 543 applications for the Three Mile Harbor Road project have come in since. On Friday, Katy Casey, executive director of the housing authority, presided over a preliminary lottery, to assign the order in which applicants will be vetted.

Story times, craft projects, a family beach cleanup and much, much more are on the schedule for kids this week.

The Hayground School is planning a major capital project that will add a new arts and science building and an amphitheater to its 12.8-acre campus in Bridgehampton.

In collaboration with OLA of Eastern Long Island, three local Latino youths have begun building a professional network and affinity group for their peers. The ambitious project will kick off on Saturday night at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

The Emmy Award-winning actor Hank Azaria will speak out about his personal journey of substance misuse and recovery at a family event for the nonprofit Generation S.O.S.on Sunday in Water Mill.

Leaders of the Shinnecock Indian Nation broke ground Friday on a gas station and travel plaza on Sunrise Highway in Hampton Bays that will span approximately 10 acres of tribal territory just north of the highway’s westbound lanes and is expected to be complete by the spring of 2025.

As of yesterday, the Antigua and Barbuda Hampton Challenge Regatta set for Saturday in Sag Harbor was still on the schedule. The event includes a related Taste of the Caribbean awards party that evening to raise money for I-Tri, a nonprofit that promotes athletics and empowerment for middle school girls.

The Flying Point Foundation for Autism has two goals in announcing its new Crush It! campaign: challenge people to reach personal health goals while raising money for the organization.

“Kids with a fishing net” were reported near Town Pond on the afternoon of July 31, and police went to check. One of the boys explained that he was using a pool net to retrieve a plastic bag from the pond, and he was allowed to proceed.

It may have been from 185 years ago, but Juliana MacLachlan Gardiner’s letter from Saratoga Springs to her daughter expresses the same anxieties of a parent of a teen today.

Melanie Amanda Ross, a veteran of the real estate industry here, died on June 30 of complications of a brain aneurysm. She was 76.

Meredith Blake, a part-time resident of Amagansett, died of ovarian cancer in hospice care on July 15. She was 52.

Jeanette Loper Beebe, a lifelong volunteer and skilled knitter formerly of East Hampton, died on July 15 in South Carolina at the age of 98.