Thomas More Griffin of Wainscott and Manhattan, a corporate attorney, died of cardiac arrest on July 22, a week after suffering a serious fall at home. He was 66.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will hold a public information program on East Hampton and Southampton Towns’ energy issues on Monday at 7 p.m. at the Hampton Library in Bridgehampton.

The potential for American Cruise Lines, a newcomer to East End waters, to visit the village has created a buzz on social media louder than late-summer cicadas, leaving Mayor Thomas Gardella with more questions than answers. “Obviously they didn’t come to the board or make any applications, and the harbormaster didn’t know anything about it. Something of that magnitude will need permission. I don’t know how a 240-foot-long boat is going to dock on Long Wharf in May."

Considering what the English colonists who founded East Hampton in the mid-1600s did to the land’s original inhabitants, it is a remarkable act of grace that the Montaukett Chief Robert Pharaoh agreed to be the grand marshal for the town’s 375th anniversary parade on Sept. 23.

While seasonal flu, as opposed to Covid-19, has yet to make a strong showing this year, now is a good time to make a plan to get the vaccine. The updated and highly advised Covid-19 shot is available, too.

From Jimmy Buffett to Bonac football, dive in, it’s letters time.

On Sept. 21, 1938, the morning of the Great New England Hurricane, as it came to be named by news writers, indicated a perfect end-of-summer day. There was little warning for tropical storms in those days.

How lucky we were to be born into Cadillac America in the century of progress, optimism, 20-cent milkshakes, and rock-and-roll. Everybody in the 20th century had something to say about Cadillacs.

When a good-natured and for-a-good-cause 5K becomes an obsession and a mission.

Confined to one sports page these days, whereas, formerly, I was granted three or four, I’m inclined to yearn for the old days.

I refuse to embrace the title of elderly. No, I am in that age range which I have labeled “twelderly”; like “tween” is to teen.

The latest round of property transactions from Montauk to Southampton.

Chief Robert Pharaoh of the Montauketts has been named grand marshal of East Hampton Town’s 375th anniversary parade, on Sept. 23. "I’d like to thank everyone for this honor," Mr. Pharaoh said. "It’s very, very important to us, because we are trying to get our recognition reinstated."

East Hampton Town Councilwoman Sylvia Overby returned to Town Hall on Monday, four months after a medical event she experienced during a May 9 town board meeting. On Tuesday, she attended and participated in the town board's meeting for the first time since May.

While the facility makes repairs to its roof this week, the East Hampton Y.M.C.A. RECenter has announced limited pool access hours for its members and students.

“Gays on Broadway” is not a comprehensive study. What it is is an idiosyncratic and arch amalgam of history, criticism, and juicy gossip.

Jim Lubetkin, an Amagansett resident, received eight awards in the baking competition at the Great New York State Fair in Syracuse, which concluded on Sept. 2. 

Bill Akin is a writer and raconteur whose life has been intimately entwined with the culture of Montauk as a fisherman, environmental activist, writer, surfer, and founder of Music for Montauk.

Dan Koontz, an East Hampton musician and composer, has written “The Free Life,” a rock opera about the ill-fated hot- air balloon that took off from Springs 53 years ago in hopes of making the first trans-Atlantic balloon flight.

Keith Sonnier’s artful interpretations in neon and on paper of herd animals, inspired by his travels abroad and visits to the Museum of Natural History in New York, are at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack for two more days.