Nathan Halsey Dayton, an East Hampton native and Navy veteran who lived in North Fort Myers, Fla., died on June 28 at the age of 99. 

Jerome Tauber of Montauk, a mathematician and lawyer, died of pneumonia on July 3 at the age of 79.

Joan L. Loria of Belmont, Mass., an artist who had a long career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a curator, museum director, and author, died in hospice care in Minnesota on May 8. A frequent summer visitor to East Hampton, she was 88.

Neil Hausig, well known in East Hampton for his advocacy of affordable housing and his long career in real estate, died of cancer on July 13. He was 80.

“I was shocked when I learned I was in a water recharge overlay, I had no information about this,” the owner of a property on Wainscott Northwest Road said at an East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals meeting where he was seeking to overturn a ruling by Joseph Palermo, the town’s chief building inspector, that the parcel had been overcleared.

Just over a year after she first filed a formal complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights, Officer Andrea M. Kess of the East Hampton Town Police Department has made new allegations that she has been the target of retaliation for stating her case.

The exhibition “Hats Off: 300 Years of Headwear in East Hampton,” which provides a narrative of the town’s history back to its founding, is on view every day from now until Sept. 1 at the East Hampton Historical Society’s Clinton Academy on Main Street.

At its E.A.T. in the Hidden Gardens fund-raiser on July 13, the Springs Food Pantry raised more than $100,000 for its work to feed those in need, with donations continuing to come in, a representative wrote this week.

LTV, East Hampton's public access television station, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a new roof.

At Duck Creek, Erika Ranee has a solo show of 19 paintings and a group exhibition she curated of work by six artists who defy the conventions of painting.

Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, is out with “The Rulebreaker,” a fascinating biography of Barbara Walters full of surprises even for dedicated followers of her career in TV news.

Two star-studded evenings of short plays directed by Bob Balaban, plus jazz, comedy, and film at Guild Hall.

“Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein: The Musical" will give Bay Street audiences plenty to laugh with and laugh at.

"Couples Squared" at the Southampton Arts Center focuses on the interplay between creative partners.

We are in full-scale summer mode as August approaches. In Montauk stripers are still running, and the same is true for fluke and a plethora of undersize sea bass.

Coming up this weekend are the two-mile, one-mile, and half-mile ocean challenge swims at Kirk Park Beach benefiting the Montauk Playhouse, and Jordan’s Run, a 5K road race in Sag Harbor that commemorates Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter.

The Kraken pitched well, fielded well, and hit well in Sunday’s Hamptons Adult Hardball League’s championship series opener against the East End Ospreys at the Bridgehampton School.

Vanessa Rizzo, 14, and Matteo Somma, 17, won races here over the weekend. Somma, who lives in Malverne, topped a field of 443 in the Montauk Lighthouse sprint triathlon, and Rizzo of Sagaponack won the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s Run-Swim-Run at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach.

One Saturday, two book talks: a tale of Dutch Nazi resistance from John Tepper Marlin at the East Hampton Library, and thoughts on all things Montauk from Bill Akin at the Montauk Library.

Concerts by Grace McLean and Torres are coming to The Church, as is Frank Bruni, whose talk is sold out (but there's a waiting list).