Gordon M. Grant, a lifelong resident of Springs who began contributing photographs to local newspapers while he was still in high school, died of colon cancer on Jan. 9. He was 53.

A new 16-foot-tall Ditch Plain dune now stands impudently, or perhaps daringly, maybe both, before the Atlantic, extending from just east of what’s known as the “dirt lot” parking area to a few hundred feet west of the Seaside Avenue parking lot.

Christopher Gallant, a non-politician from Amity Harbor who announced his bid last summer after John Avlon said he wouldn’t run again in 2026, seems to be emerging as the candidate to face Nick LaLota, and he has Mr. Avlon’s support.

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee emphatically endorsed a plan to mitigate noise from aircraft flying to and from East Hampton Town Airport, noting that “years of litigation and more than $9 million in legal fees” have brought no relief to beleaguered residents in the form of restrictions on aircraft operations.

The latest round in the struggle between offshore wind farm developers and the Trump administration went to the developers, as a federal judge ruled on Monday that construction of Revolution Wind can resume.

The East Hampton Town Trustees voted to re-elect Francis Bock as clerk, or presiding officer, and Jim Grimes and John Aldred as the deputy clerks. They also voted to maintain Christopher Carillo as their attorney.

When contract negotiations for 911 dispatching broke down between East Hampton Town and Village last spring, it became clear that the East Hampton Town Police Department would begin taking the bulk of 911 calls in the township from the village. The turnover was to occur on Jan. 1, but it has now been delayed for at least a month.

“Unwanted guests” were trying to take his belongings and refusing to leave, a Brandywine Drive, Sag Harbor, resident reported to 911 last Thursday, adding that one of them wouldn’t wake up and “may have overdosed.”

An 18-year-old was struck by a Honda sedan while crossing Newtown Lane in East Hampton on Saturday evening, near the intersection of Muchmore Lane.

An East Hampton man was charged with felony drunken driving after a traffic stop in East Hampton on Jan. 3, just over a year after being convicted of two earlier D.W.I. offenses.

From East Hampton High School to Hofstra University to Puerto Rico, if there is a lacrosse field, Melina Sarlo will find it. The college sophomore spent her winter break playing in the Pan American Lacrosse Association Sixes Cup in Humacao, Puerto Rico, where she represented Argentina and helped her team win a bronze medal.

She’s been playing middle school softball for only a year, but 12-year-old Ann Peterson is already hitting it out of the park. The Springs School pitcher competed in the All-American Select Games in Panama City Beach, Fla., this month, where she won the All-American Ace Award and was named tournament M.V.P.

Despite the flu circulating at Montauk School — one first grade class had just four of its usual 16 students on Jan. 9 — the Robert Fisher Scholarship Pasta Supper at the Montauk Firehouse on Friday was a success.

The theme for January is “being of service.” This means the club is going to give back to the community. The Diversity Club will work hard every week to create small gifts: making jewelry, crocheting gifts, and writing inspirational quotes on paper, as well as organizing lunches for the homeless community at Maureen’s Haven in Riverhead.

As part of a national walkout from schools, offices, and commercial establishments scheduled for Tuesday, the meetinghouse of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton will host music and poetry throughout the day.

From Phoenix House, just down Industrial Road, to countries including India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Kenya, and Barbados, Hamptons Church in Wainscott is quietly carrying out its mission near and far.

When the United States bombed Venezuela on Jan. 3 and removed Nicolas Maduro, its president, to stand trial in New York City, Americans might have taken pause. But not because there is any love for Mr. Maduro.

A majority of the 273 respondents to a survey about personal wireless communication in Sag Harbor Village support replacing two existing towers — that do not host commercial wireless service providers — with towers that can support them. Publicly owned properties and properties with nonresidential land uses are the preferred locations.

A rare Ross’s goose has been frequenting the farm field across from the Wolffer Estate Vineyard Wine Stand on Montauk Highway since it was first spotted last week.

This letter from Capt. Jared Wade to his wife, Harriett Bushnell Wade, written about 172 years ago, shows some of the challenges of life as a whaler.