After months of adjournments, representatives of the Huntting Inn returned to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals last week, continuing its quest to add a pool and hot tub behind its timber-frame guest house.

After successfully completing her 27,759-mile solo nonstop sail around the world last Thursday as part of the Global Solo Challenge, Cole Brauer received myriad thank-yous from near and far for having not only inspired a generation of young women (and at the beginning of International Women’s Month, no less) who might not otherwise have taken up a historically male-dominated sport, but also for having inspired everyone — young and old, male and female. 

“The first time as tragedy, the second time as farce” may be an apt description of a recent development in the race to represent New York’s First Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, where former Representative George Santos of New York, who was expelled from the House in December, has announced that he will challenge first-term Representative Nick LaLota for the Republican nomination.

Five months after buying out the remainder of the contract of its former superintendent and hiring an interim, the Amagansett School District has put its principal on paid administrative leave and made the interim superintendent its interim principal as well.

The village board has the authority to set the number of moorings in the waterways it manages but has never done so. Now, it aims to change that. “We want to limit unchecked expansion,” said Chris Duryea, a village harbormaster.

Taxpayers in at least three school districts in East Hampton Town — Amagansett, Springs, and East Hampton — could be faced with approving over-the-tax-cap spending plans in May for the 2024-25 school year.

As the downtown Montauk portion of the long-awaited Fire Island to Montauk Point beach reformulation project nears conclusion, students in the hamlet are both learning about the science behind the project and, through the medium of video, advocating for protection of their home.

East Hampton Town’s 2024 draft capital plan — a wish list of 85 construction, upgrade, or acquisition initiatives with an estimated total cost of just over $15 million, much of it allocated to the Highway, Police, and Parks and Building Maintenance Departments — was presented to the town board on Tuesday.

A beach and dune remediation project at Ditch Plain in Montauk, where a critical dune system was lost to winter storms, will cost an estimated $3 million to $5 million.

Nancy Goroff and John Avlon, candidates for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Nick LaLota in New York’s First Congressional District, signaled unity in their belief that Mr. LaLota can be defeated in the Nov. 5 election during a candidates forum hosted by the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee.

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has endorsed the candidacy of John Avlon in New York’s First Congressional District, adding to Mr. Avlon’s tally of endorsements since entering the race to challenge Representative Nick LaLota three weeks ago.

As it had signaled earlier last week, the East Hampton Town Board formally adopted the Pro Housing Communities pledge, a New York State program established last year and designed to reward local governments that are working to address the state’s housing crisis, at its meeting last Thursday.

Monday night’s lengthy meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee was devoted almost entirely to the increasingly contentious question of the new East Hampton Town Senior Center.

In addition to its proposed over-the-tax-cap budget plan for the 2024-25 school year, the Amagansett School District is planning to float three separate ballot propositions concerning busing and facilities repairs. The school board has yet to formally approve the placing of these three items on the ballot, but it got the conversation started during Tuesday’s budget workshop.

Students in Emily O'Reilly's English classes are preparing for speeches on a variety of social justice topics from garbage in the oceans to food regulations.

The young performers with Our Fabulous Variety Show will present “Alice Jr.,” an original take on the “Alice in Wonderland” story on Friday and Saturday. Plus: Easter and St. Patrick's Day fun, sports programs, Pi Day activities, sewing and art, and much more coming up for kids and teens.

After Jimmy Ernst died, a huge bed / piece of art from his father, the surrealist Max Ernst, had to be moved from Jimmy’s Lee Avenue house. It wasn’t easy.

A 29-year-old East Hampton woman went to police headquarters on March 4 to report being the victim of sexual assault, stemming from an incident on Feb. 23 at a house in town.

Police were called Friday afternoon to investigate a report that people were camping illegally in the Grace Estate Preserve. They came upon three men from Nassau County who’d put up a tent and built a campfire. Police told them to put out the fire, then issued a ticket for open burning and directed them to leave immediately.

Kenneth Wayne Carter Sr., a star East Hampton High School basketball player who was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2013, died on Feb. 27 in South Carolina. He was 63.