Adam Potter has tabled controversial plans for a 79-unit downtown affordable apartment building with 34,000 square feet of retail space, and said he will instead submit plans to Sag Harbor Village for a building with 39 residential units and a third of the retail space originally proposed.

With a careful, calculated touch, Robert Greene, a renowned decoy carver who lives in Springs, creates pieces so realistic they could easily be mistaken for taxidermy. “You gotta know the wood, you gotta be a halfway decent carver, you gotta be a decent painter. . . and you gotta be an artist,” he said.

Erik Kelt has a plan. After starting his new position as principal of the Springs School on July 1, he has developed an approach for his first 100 days that focuses on leading by listening and learning.

Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Joseph Santorelli dismissed Michael Bebon’s lawsuit against East Hampton Village regarding pickleball at Herrick Park last week, but that didn’t stop Mr. Bebon and a phalanx of lawyers from showing up at Monday’s village board meeting to draw another line in the park’s sandbox.

“There’s maybe been some hurricanes where we’ve had similar debris, but I would say this is right up there with the best of them,” said Tim Treadwell, senior harbormaster for East Hampton Town Marine Patrol. “It’s kind of interesting how much stuff came from New England and how it found its way here.” The debris is a particular issue for boaters at night.

End Citizens United, which works to elect Democratic candidates and to combat the influence of money in politics, has filed a second complaint against Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District, this one alleging that he violated federal election law by failing to file complete financial disclosure reports.

The New York League of Conservation Voters has endorsed East Hampton Town Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez in her bid for supervisor, as well as Westhampton Beach Mayor Maria Moore, who is running for supervisor of Southampton Town. Both are Democrats.

The East Hampton Housing Authority’s five properties will soon see the installation of solar panels that are estimated to produce a combined 927 megawatt hours annually. Once the buildings have been solarized, residents will receive at least a 15-percent reduction in their electricity costs.

East Hampton Town is "leading by example with upgrading our town-owned municipal facilities to innovative alternative, low-nitrogen sanitary systems,” according to the environmental analyst with the Natural Resources Department. Five upgrades have been completed and many more are in the works.

A daylong program at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton on Friday, Aug. 11, will explore nature as a balm for healing and rejuvenation.

With many members of their family and friends looking on, the brothers Joe and Sal LaCarrubba unveiled a plaque at the Main Street, Amagansett, building that once served as the hamlet’s U.S. Life-Saving Station on Monday.

A representative from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s Build Ready program pitched a study to the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday that would identify potential sites for solar farms and battery storage systems on town-owned properties.

Janice Marie Collins, an art teacher at the Springs School for many years and a member of the Pawnee Nation, died on July 24 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 79 and had cancer.

Raymond Edward Hegner, a Montauk “real estate icon” for more than 50 years, died on July 22. He was 89 and had kidney disease.

A memorial service for Tom Kochie, a Sag Harbor photographer and artist who died on May 30 at the age of 74, will take place on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor.

The East Hampton School Board voted Tuesday to hire five more security guards, completing a round of recruitment that will see a total of seven current “paraprofessionals” — who monitor hallways, doorways, and other key areas — transition into more formal public-safety roles.

Guild Hall's Family Day is back, and there's fun for all ages at the Montauk Lighthouse and local libraries and art centers.

Lifeguards responded to what appeared to be two swimmers in distress a mile out from beach access marker number 14A on July 26 at around 4:30 p.m. A search on Jet Skis revealed that there were no struggling swimmers in the water — it was a 14-foot-long log.

Following an ongoing investigation into thefts from restaurants of used cooking oil, which is considered a valuable commodity that is frequently sold to biodiesel fuel refineries, two UpIsland men have been arrested. They are charged with multiple counts of misdemeanor petty larceny and one count each of third-degree criminal mischief with intent to damage another person’s property, a felony.

A head-on car crash on Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Cove Hollow Road involved a significant police, fire, and ambulance response, with two men taken to the hospital. Neither was seriously injured, East Hampton Village police reported.