Five Democrats and five Republicans are facing off for the five Southampton Town Trustee seats, while Theresa Kiernan, the incumbent, and David Glazer are the candidates for tax receiver.

One incumbent and three newcomers are seeking two spots on the East Hampton Town Board. Councilman David Lys, running on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines, is joined on those ballot lines by Tom Flight, who is a first-time candidate. Opposing them are two other first-time candidates: Scott Smith and Michael Wootton on the Republican and Conservative Party lines.

The Atlantic Ocean and the sky above it were dull shades of gray as a steady drizzle fell on Monday morning, but with nary a utility pole or wire in sight, spirits were bright among the dignitaries gathered to mark the completion of a project to bury utility lines and remove utility poles at the entrance to Montauk’s downtown.

New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, accompanied by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., last week announced a $1.75 million state award for the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, where ground was broken last summer for its new aquatic center.

November is the month when a dedicated group of citizen scientists begin to count birds as part of Project FeederWatch, a Cornell Lab of Ornithology program now in its 37th year. It’s simple. Go to feederwatch.org, pay $18, learn how to report your birds, get some swag that will help you make proper identifications, and you’re on the team.

Leadership changes are coming to the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation, an organization established in 2015 to remediate the pond’s degraded water quality and preserve its ecosystem.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork has announced that the League of Women Voters Education Fund’s online voters guide is live at vote411.org with nonpartisan information on Tuesday’s election.

Tuesday’s general election ballot includes two proposals, so be sure to flip your ballot over to weigh in.

Tuesday’s general election ballot includes two proposals, so be sure to flip your ballot over to weigh in.

Springs students report news of the school.

Born out of a collaboration between the Plain Sight Project and the Sag Harbor Cinema, and buoyed by a $200,000 grant facilitated by Senator Chuck Schumer, a new school program is helping middle schoolers learn the history of slavery on the East End.

Preteens and teenagers interested in babysitting have two chances coming up to learn the do’s and don’ts of the job. Plus, Pizza and Pajama Night at CMEE, Battle of the Books meetings, Minecraft and other video games, and lots more for kids and teens.

An officer went to Sag Harbor's Windmill Beach Saturday afternoon to check on a man who’d been seen lying on the sand for some time. What with the great weather that day — the temperature was near 70 and the sun was strong — he’d fallen asleep, he said. He was fine.

On local roads in the last 10 days, a total of six people were taken to the hospital after car crashes in East Hampton and Montauk.

A 44-year-old East Hampton man is facing a felony charge of first-degree criminal contempt for allegedly violating an order of protection stemming from an incident witnessed by a 14-year-old child.

East End for Ceasefire, an activist group, has formed to call for an end to hostilities in Israel and Gaza. The group gathered on Oct. 21 and again on Sunday at Long Wharf in Sag Harbor and plans to continue doing so on Sundays at 3 p.m.

In August, when Adam Potter submitted updated plans for a mixed-use development at Bridge and Rose Streets in Sag Harbor, he said he was committed to taking it through the village’s review boards. Last week, however, he filed yet another plan, which removes a significant component of the August submission: the performing arts center with office space.

Mary Fulford (1884-1975), who helped raise the Talmage family children in Springs, sits on the sand at East Hampton’s Main Beach in this 1957 photograph from the Springs Historical Society collection.

Among the middle school teams here that did well this fall were East Hampton’s seventh-and-eighth-grade football team, which began its 5-1 season with 44 players and ended the season with 44 players, and the Springs School’s boys cross-country team, which went undefeated for the second year in a row.

While 10 East Hampton High School teams were playing this fall, men’s teams in slow-pitch softball and in 7-on-7 soccer, whose season at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park is nearing an end, were active as well.