East Hampton’s 11-and-12-year-old baseball and softball all-star teams are on quests to win District 36 tournaments, and good things are expected.

On the night of June 14 almost 100 East Hampton High School athletes, which is to say about half the class of 2023, were honored at a senior awards dinner in the school’s cafeteria.

Two natives of Ethiopia now living in the Bronx were the male and female winners of Saturday’s 44th Shelter Island 10K. Earlier that day, a native of Belarus who lives in Southampton topped the men’s field in the Beacon of Hope 5K at the Montauk Lighthouse.

Given all of the supersize stripers now in Montauk, it’s still not too late to enter the popular Montauk Surf Masters Spring Shootout, which concludes on July 9. Bigger fish are clearly on the feed here.

From a shotgun-wielding skirmish in the Prohibition wars of 1923 to the momentous day in 1998 when Suffolk County banned smoking in bars, it happened here.

For the first time, lifeguards at East Hampton Main Beach will have the ability to fly a drone to help pinpoint swimmers in distress.

Political ties run deep in Suffolk County, and there has been speculation that an old-boy network is behind the extraordinary fines a State Supreme Court justice has imposed on the town.

It had been missing for nearly a year, so when I found my wallet at the bottom of a bag of life jackets earlier this week I felt like a dope.

I was called an “idiot” the other day by a doubles opponent, and I couldn’t entirely disagree.

On John Romita, the smooth illustrator who remade Spider-Man and the entire look of Marvel Comics.

That the reduction in nuclear capacity after the Three Mile Island disaster would keep the coal industry alive and exacerbate climate change should have been obvious.

In reader comment, this is the week that was. (Or, the Maidstone Gun Club mobilizes.)

It was a relatively quiet week in Hamptons real estate, just some millions hither and yon.

The poet and farmer Scott Chaskey returns with fresh takes on birds and words, seeds and trees.

It's time to sing, dance, create, and play with these upcoming events for kids and teens.

Reservations are being taken for the Montauk Chamber of Commerce's Stars Over Montauk fireworks cruise on the Viking Starship on July 4.

Carl Irace, a lawyer and village resident, won 327 votes to beat out East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky, who ended with 141 votes, for a four-year term as Sag Harbor Village Justice. Mr. Irace will replace Lisa Rana, who is retiring.

The Wainscott School District failed to get the 60-percent approval it needed on Tuesday to pass an over-the-tax-cap budget, throwing it into "uncharted waters," its superintendent said.

The acclaimed poet Yesenia Montilla will offer a free poetry workshop for teenagers on Thursday night at 5:30 at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. Registration is by calling 631-537-0616.

As director and curator of the Leiber Collection, Ann Fristoe Stewart organizes changing exhibitions in the museum and garden while continuing to track down handbags by Judith that are missing from the holdings.