A memorial gathering for Richard Ellis Lynn of East Hampton will be held on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with visiting hours to begin at 1:30.

In 1973, the public shouted down nuclear plants at Shoreham and Jamesport. In 1998, deer killed two Springs residents. And much more.

The direction you want to go during the August heat is east. “Whether it’s striped bass, bluefish, fluke, porgies, sea bass, or tuna, the fish now prefer to be in cooler, deeper waters,” said Ken Morse of Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor.

The Hampton Lifeguard Association’s entry in the national lifesaving tournament at Virginia Beach wound up with the locals, from East Hampton and Southampton beaches, finishing ninth among the 26 teams. Meanwhile, Hoops 4 Hope’s 3-on-3 basketball tournament in Amagansett drew 18 teams.

East End Land Planning, led by Katie Osiecki, has once again hoisted the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball playoff trophy.

The 75th Artists and Writers Softball Game and Ellen’s Run are coming up this weekend — the Game at Herrick Park in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon, the run at the Southampton Intermediate School on Sunday morning.

For fans of local history as well as of early American furniture, the opening today of the new Dominy Shops Museum on North Main Street is an exciting moment.

The Sag Harbor Village Board did the right thing recently when it proposed handing back development oversight in the waterfront zone to the village planning board.

Congress does not have that much of an obvious effect here, other than perhaps on marginal tax rates for the very rich, but on global warming policy it is a crucial player.

It is a sad state of affairs that all anyone is talking about this summer is traffic.

We were in Massachusetts this week so my daughter could try out for a lacrosse club team based within striking distance of her boarding school.

No trips downtown in August.

Tyrants don’t speak aspirationally, they do not speak hopefully, they don’t say “wouldn’t it be wonderful if.” They bark orders, and woe to him or her who doesn’t carry them out.

The lessons of Barry Commoner, the “Paul Revere of the modern environmental movement,” are now more important than ever.

Real estate action across the South Fork. The latest report.

And the readers will have their say.

The Church, an arts center on Madison Street in Sag Harbor, will have a cocktail reception, chaired by Elisa Rojas Ross, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, to benefit Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island on Thursday night from 5 to 7.

Eileen Myles, whose poems race headlong down the page, is nothing if not consistent, and prolific. Myles’s latest collection is “a Working Life.”

Forget stadium binoculars and nosebleed seats — some 500 people lucky enough to score access into Sirius XM’s exclusive concert by Ed Sheeran on Monday night under a tent at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett were so close to the pop star they could see the sweat glistening on his neck while he performed a solo set that included almost every hit since his first single, “The A Team,” debuted on

Sutton Lynch, an aerial photographer specializing in marine life, spends his days at Atlantic Avenue Beach monitoring the images captured by his drone from high above the water, about 400 yards out from the shore.