The John Jermain Memorial Library has two reading challenges for young patrons. Plus: tons of arts-and-crafts sessions, story time, movies, and more for kids and teens.

Last Thursday afternoon, for the second week in a row, police tracked down and arrested suspects in a shoplifting incident at a luxury boutique on Newtown Lane. First it happened at Balenciaga; this time it was at Prada.

A 50-year-old man was hit by a car and killed on Saturday night while crossing Montauk Highway just east of the Scuttlehole Road intersection.

In East Hampton, residents knew Frazer Dougherty as the charismatic and dogged force behind the founding of Local TV, the town’s nonprofit public access television station, which began broadcasting out of his garage in the early 1980s and has since documented all aspects of Bonacker life. Mr. Dougherty died on Aug. 29 at home in Aventura, Fla., where he had been living since 2009, after “a long and illustrious life,” his family said. He was 101.

Mona Lisa DeCristofaro, a former secretary at the East Hampton Middle School who went on to work for 30 years with Kevin Fitzgerald at ARK Construction, died at home in Springs on Aug. 21. She was 70.

Rose Campbell Gibson, a research scientist and gerontologist who served on the faculty of the University of Michigan School of Social Work, died on Aug. 11 after a brief illness. She was 98.

Mary Kathryn Brackenridge, a part-time resident of East Hampton for nearly 20 years who was known as Kathy, died on Aug. 27 at home in New Canaan, Conn. Her husband, Gavin Brackenridge, and daughter, Kathryn Brackenridge, were with her. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

If Wölffer Estate hadn’t claimed the name “Summer in a Bottle” for its iconic rosé, the cherry-lime rickey would surely be the first-place contender for that title. That’s why we were pleased to learn that Sip ’n Soda has begun selling its cherry-lime rickey mix in a bottle — year round, to boot.

The Garden Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to saving and promoting outstanding American gardens, will host two self-guided tours on the South Fork on Saturday.

From The East Hampton Star, September 10, 1998 — East Hampton Village has staked its claim to 25 percent of East Hampton Town’s annual transfer tax revenues — what its Mayor terms an “equitable” portion of monies a proposed 2-percent levy on property sales is expected to generate if voters here approve implementation of the state land bank bill on Nov. 3, Election Day.

This season marks the 100th anniversary of Bonac football, always known as hard-nosed foes. That gritty tradition is to be celebrated with a party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott at 5 p.m. on Sept. 23, following the homecoming game with Harborfields, which is to begin at 1. 

In initial outings East Hampton High School’s boys soccer team did well, while field hockey shut out Pierson. The football team, however, fell as expected to Half Hollow Hills, 42-20.

Jimmy Buffett, who had a house on North Haven, loved the waters of the East End, whether surfing, sailing, or fishing.

Long-running college football rivalry games are down the drain.

There’s still something to be said for the value of a liberal arts education, with courses in history, literature, and languages, whose ultimate gift is to enrich our lives, to make us more knowledgeable citizens of the world.

A 2012 Columbia University study on addiction medicine found that only one in 10 drug or alcohol addicts gets medical treatment, leaving more than 20 million Americans untreated.

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New real estate transfers here.

The spotted lanternfly, a "planthopper" pest now common in New York City, has made its way to the East End, where it is a threat to wineries and native trees like the black walnut, silver maple, willow, and oak.

The first Hamptons Hispanic Parade on Saturday at 11 a.m., organized by the nonprofit Peru to the World Expo Foundation, will kick off a daylong celebration of Peruvian culture and food that will culminate with a culinary extravaganza at Herrick Park from 2 to 7 p.m.