“A fisheries fraud conspiracy” spanning about three years, at least 200 fishing trips, and 200,000 pounds of illegally taken fluke and black sea bass has now resulted in a 30-month prison sentence for a Montauk boat captain, Christopher Winkler.

A lifeguard at Kirk Park Beach in Montauk spotted a man walking with his son on the dunes Friday afternoon and asked him to leave the protected area. The man “called him a few names,” he told police, who were unable to find the pair.

The highly regarded Perlman Music Program will give a rare East Hampton concert on Tuesday in celebration of its 30th anniversary, bringing students from around the world and the maestro Itzhak Perlman as conductor to the high school for “a rousing program of orchestral and choral masterworks.” Three East Hampton High School students will be on the stage when it happens.

In a press release Wednesday, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced the beginning of construction on the Sunrise Wind project, the largest offshore wind project in New York State, to be located 30 miles east of Montauk.

The Town of East Hampton is offering kids two more opportunities to dive into its free swimming lessons this summer. Plus: D.I.Y. T-shirts, memory bowls, beachy crafts, a family festival, and much more coming up for kids and teens this week.

This account book belonged to Abraham Woodhull (1750-1826), a member of the Culper Spy Ring on Long Island during the Revolutionary War, charged with aiding George Washington in his efforts against the British.

Ella Adele King, who turned a late-in-life crocheting and crafting hobby into a business selling her handmade goods at craft shows, died on May 3 in hospice care in Port Jefferson. Formerly of Sag Harbor, Amagansett, and East Hampton, she was 76.

Martin Ligorner, once “the unofficial mayor of Napeague,” died at a memory care facility in Northampton, Mass., on July 9. He was 89.

This Saturday evening, on an 11-acre plot of land in Springs, a twisted version of Las Vegas, where nature-based gambling games raise money for an arboretum devoted to ecological storytelling and an artist in residence program, will, improbably, be the place to be.

The annual Hamptons Soldier Ride, a fund-raiser for the Wounded Warrior Project, will roll from Amagansett to Sag Harbor and back on Saturday morning. “It’s all about celebrating the veterans and the community,” said Nick Kraus of East Hampton, a founder of the ride who continues to volunteer for — and cycle in — the event.

The Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce recently announced a new executive director, Susanne Kelly, a veteran of the advertising industry.

Newly reported land deals from across the South Fork.

From the 1924 Wiborg Estate dog show to the day 75 years later when Representative Michael Forbes flipped, it happened here, readers.

And water quality shall lead them. This week’s Star letters, that is.

We have to listen to the data and the scientists, and what science is telling us now is that the earth is getting hot as hell.

Goodbye to a wonderful citizen who, faithfully, week in and week out, wrote hundreds of letters to the editor of his local paper.

The marsh has been underwater more often this year than the last. I suspect that sea level rise has a lot to do with it.

The water table is very close to the surface here in much of the village and, as the climate changes and the rains increase, it’s only rising.

The “Noyack” spelling has strength, certainty. It amounts to a tribute, and it looks good.

It’s a rare thing to be part of an all-female crew on a sailboat, and yet that’s where I found myself in the middle of Noyac Bay.