Springs School students report the news.

At a short but sweet East Hampton Village Board work session on Oct. 5, the village dedicated the Pantigo Mill behind the Home, Sweet Home Museum to Hugh King, the village historian.

“Oysters do a fantastic job of filtering our water,” Bob Tymann of South Fork Sea Farmers explained to the Sag Harbor Village Board last week while displaying a slide showing algae, nitrogen, and other contaminants entering an oyster and coming out clean. The bivalves are like mini wastewater treatment plants, each adult filters 50 gallons a day. 

The East Hampton Town Justice race to replace Lisa R. Rana, who, after 20 years on the bench, is retiring, pits David Filer, running as a Democrat, against Brian Lester on the Republican ticket. Both men are fathers, both boast of family ties tracing back to East Hampton’s earliest settlers, and both have had long careers in the law.

Wastewater management, renewable energy, housing, traffic, and migrants were among the topics addressed in Monday’s debate between candidates for the Suffolk County Legislature’s Second District, hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork. Manny Vilar of Springs, the chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee and a retired state parks police officer, is the Republican candidate. His Democratic opponent is Ann Welker, a Southampton Town trustee.

On Friday around 3 p.m., a man walked out of the Sweet Spot, the new ice cream place on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, without paying for his milkshake.

This receipt, dated Oct. 21, 1703, records the first annual payment by East Hampton settlers to the Montaukett people. The payment amounted to a rental fee for the use of grazing lands on the Montauk peninsula.

Before the water turns to ice here on the East End, the local fishing scene seems to be holding up just fine. Bass, bluefish, tuna, sea bass, porgies, and blackfish are hungry and on the feed.

As of earlier this week, the East Hampton boys volleyball team was riding a five-game winning streak, and its coach was anticipating making the playoffs. Plus much more from the world of Bonac sports, from cross-country to girls tennis.

Cristian Candemir, a 29-year-old Montauker and Starbucks barista, is in training for the inaugural America’s Strongest Man under-200 championships in Orlando, Fla., next month.

The East Hampton High School boys soccer team is now in contention to win the League VI championship, and the field hockey squad continued on the upswing by beating Shoreham-Wading River, which came in at 11-1.

Frederick William Yardley, a retired Springs School history teacher and administrator who was at the district for 29 years, died at home in East Hampton on Saturday. He was 88.

James Winkler, an architectural draftsman and a talented flamenco and classical guitarist, died at home in Springs on Friday. He was 89 and had Parkinson’s disease.

A celebration of the life of Elaine Monroe, who died at home in Manhattan on Oct. 15, 2022, will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel on Madison Avenue in Manhattan.

When reviewing requests to bend the rules, the zoning board of appeals and planning board are at a crossroads pitting verbal assurances against long-term effects.

Members of the East Hampton Town Board have been doing the right thing by holding discussions about the design of a new senior citizens center. It is important that they are as public as can be about what the center will offer.

When was the last time you saw the tail of a white-tailed deer? They no longer seem to care about the human presence at all.

We are either cynical or naive by nature. I believe this to be true.

If you’re questioning the sanity of spending time in front of a television watching professional football, read on.

Gubbins is back and I have a pair of bright, shiny new Asics sneakers on to celebrate the sports store’s return.