Buttero, in the old Laundry restaurant, is mostly Italian, with lots of pasta, a welcoming and attractive atmosphere, good service, and many great dishes (but a few misses).

Harvest celebrations at Wolffer Estate Vineyard and Haven Vineyard, wine workshops at Nick and Toni’s, Marilee’s Farmstand now accepting C.S.A. sign-ups, the next wine class at Park Place Wines, and more.

UPDATE: Those wishing to put their rakes to the test for the East Hampton Town Trustees’ Largest Clam Contest will have to wait a bit longer to dig for the winners in Lake Montauk, Napeague Harbor, Accabonac Harbor, Hog Creek, and Three Mile Harbor, as heavy rains have closed many areas to shellfishing and forced a second rescheduling of the annual event.

The citizens group Montauk United is sponsoring the first campaign event in East Hampton Town’s 2023 election season, a candidates forum on Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Montauk Firehouse. 

“Modest home in tony Hamptons trailer park asks a record-breaking $4.4M” was the breathless headline in the Aug. 28 issue of The New York Post. While the report focused on the modular structure’s asking price, it “drew the attention of” East Hampton Town's public safety officials, with its “interior photos depicting an attic-floor bedroom that was apparently installed without permits."

From a big thank-you to much incredulity, invasive plants to LED streetlights, this is the Star letters week that was.

Behold, the Edison Projectoscope! And much more from the Star of yore.

New South Fork real estate transactions.

Mike and Liz McCarron of Montauk have announced the engagement of their son Benjamin Knute McCarron to Colleen Elizabeth Sherlock, whose parents are Kevin and Debbie Sherlock of Montauk and Delray Beach, Fla.

A wake for Patricia A. Sarlo of East Hampton, who died on Tuesday, will take place today from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Friday, Oct. 13, at 10:30 a.m. at the Basilica Parish of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary in Southampton for James F. Jensen, with burial to follow at Sacred Hearts Cemetery.

Dr. James McBrayer Garvey Jr., a cardiologist who lived full time in Cincinnati and was an almost lifelong summer visitor to Amagansett, died there on Sept. 8

On Sept. 24, 1815, Abraham M. Smith of East Hampton wrote Henry Packer Dering (1762-1822), Sag Harbor’s customs collector, with news of a shipwreck the day before at Montauk, a brig from Russia carrying hemp and iron.

Ethelyn (Lyn) Atha Chase, who had a residence in East Hampton from 1955 to 2023, died in Manhattan on Sept. 3 at the age of 99. Ms. Chase devoted much of her life to poetry and literature, including a term as president of the Academy of American Poets and as a trustee of the New York Society Library.

Eastern Suffolk BOCES is set to receive about $4.6 million from New York State to create a pipeline of candidates qualified to go on to special education teaching careers in East End schools. 

Janet Rose Dordelman, who lived in Springs and ran her own beauty salon for many years, then retired to Barefoot Bay in Sebastian, Fla., died at home there on Aug. 8 after a two-year illness. She was 89.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has started a petition in support of a project the group pitched to the East Hampton Town Board that would see goats used to remove invasive vegetation in a portion of the roughly 40-acre Arthur Benson Preserve. As of Wednesday morning, it had 210 signatures.

Flu season doesn’t start until after Thanksgiving, right? Wrong. Dr. George Dempsey, the medical director of East Hampton Family Medicine on Pantigo Road, wrote last week to say he’s already had a handful of patients test positive in the office. “Never before last year did we see so many this early,” said Dr. Nadia Persheff, a pediatrician in Southampton.

Fall on the East End means apples, pumpkins, corn, and sunflowers are in season, and there are plenty of ways for kids and families to enjoy them.

The grounds of Mulford Farm on James Lane will be host to Revolutionary War re-enactors, costumed interpreters, games, music, historical craft demonstrations, and more on Sunday when the East Hampton Historical Society has a free family history festival celebrating the town’s 375th anniversary.