From an 1898 “must vote for Scudder” push to the Election Day “backlash” of 1998, here are tales of campaigns past.

With Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman facing a term limit this year, two current trustees seeking a seat on the town board, and newcomers stepping up to challenge incumbents in multiple roles, Election Day in Southampton is shaping up to be a competitive one.

The owner of a Springs property wants to demolish his 1,600-square-foot cottage, built before zoning laws were established in 1957, and build a 2,160-square-foot house with a terrace, covered porch, and new sanitary system. Besides the requested special permit, five variances are needed.

Kathee Burke-Gonzalez will probably cruise into the supervisor’s office, David Lys will most likely hold onto his spot on the town board, and Tom Flight is the standout among the other candidates. But to provide constructive dissent, the G.O.P. must step up its game.

Ann Welker for County Legislature has been a strong advocate for the environment. For county executive, Ed Romaine should be a steady hand.

David Filer can help guide Town Justice Court over the next four years as the community continues to change. For town trustee, two new faces in particular, Celia Josephson and Patrice Dalton, deserve election.

Sea water temperature is projected to rise by .05 to .5 degrees Celsius per decade, with warming expected to be amplified in shallow coastal waters like ours.

The East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals lost another Article 78 lawsuit last week, this time against 175 Atlantic L.L.C., controlled by Farrell Builders. It is the fourth time this year the Z.B.A. has been taken to court and has lost.

You know you are a child of the 1970s when . . .

The adventures, follies, and disequilibrium of running on a treadmill.

It was a homecoming win all the more memorable for the fact that its attainment was the players’ gift to their coach and a gift to themselves.

How Fred Yardley and the lifeguards of Main Beach pioneered the best way to body surf.

A load o’ letters with Election Day bearing down.

For those who find a sample ballot useful before they head to the polls, here is what the front and back of the ballot looks like in East Hampton Town. 

Registered voters in East Hampton and Southampton Towns have through Sunday to cast their ballots under New York State's early-voting provisions.

Alice McDermott’s new novel gives us remarkably realistic characters while fleshing out the zeitgeist of the 1960s as experienced by American women expats in Vietnam.

Francis Levy talks his new story collection, “The Kafka Studies Department,” while Brooke Kroeger and David Alpern discuss her book “Undaunted” and women in the history of journalism.

Richard Rutkowski, a former assistant to and longtime friend of Robert Wilson of the Watermill Center, chronicles his trip to Japan to see Mr. Wilson, and four other notables, receive the Praemium Imperiale, often described as the Nobel Prize of the arts.

Claire Watson took the top honors prize in Guild Hall’s Artist Members Exhibition, with honorable mentions going to Chris Siefert, Philippe Cheng, Michael Butler, Isla T. Hansen, and Mary Martha Lambert.

When Monday’s county Class AA high school boys soccer semifinal was over, and when it had sunk in that Huntington, the tournament’s third seed, had defeated second-seeded East Hampton 3-1 in a penalty kick shootout that followed almost two hours of riveting play, not only did Bonac’s players tear up, but so did their coach, Don McGovern.