From court appearances to public hearings, it’s been a busy couple of weeks for Rita Cantina, the embattled Mexican restaurant near Maidstone Park in Springs.

Across the road from the Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, a 21.7-acre parcel, much of it undevelopable, could be divided into three lots. One would include a reserved area and two existing horse barns, the second would hold an existing house and garage, and a third lot, which is now empty and zoned residential, could hold a large house.

“Faced with access versus no access, access won,” East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc told the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee Monday night. The Cranberry Hole Road bridge to Lazy Point, a destination beloved of clammers, kite surfers, windsurfers, birders, and solitary seekers of peace and quiet, was recently reopened — though with no guarantee of permanence — after being shut down on May 7 when a large gap appeared in its wooden substructure.

“The only way to save what’s left of our culture is to offer as much affordable housing to our local families as we possibly can,” Prudence Carabine said at a June 7 East Hampton Town Planning Board hearing on the town’s proposed affordable housing development at 395 Pantigo Road.

The East Hampton Town Board voted on June 6 to approve six of its water quality technical advisory committee’s seven recommendations to fund projects, from a motel in Montauk to Clinton Academy, that emerged from the committee’s first request for applications in 2023.

At a special meeting on Monday, the East Hampton Town Trustees gave themselves an Aug. 15 deadline to complete an inventory of docks and other structures in waterways under their jurisdiction.

The East Hampton Town Democratic Committee has rescheduled its campaign kickoff party for Friday night from 6 to 8 at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.

Manny Vilar, the Republican Party candidate for Suffolk County legislator in the Second District, will hold his campaign launch event Thurssday night from 6 to 8 at the American Legion Hall in Hampton Bays. On Wednesday, the town’s Republican Committee will hold a fund-raiser from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.

With the many mass shootings that have taken place at schools in mind, the East Hampton School Board on June 6 voted to pass a resolution in support of national gun control measures.

Ramblin’ Dan’s Freewheelin’ Band returns to the Southampton Arts Center on Tuesday for 10 weeks of energetic outdoor music classes for young children. Plus: story time, STEM activities, video games, fingerprinting, and more for kids and teens.

The Bokalift 2, an approximately 750-foot-long vessel that will be used to install foundations for the South Fork Wind farm, arrived off Newport, R.I., last week and is now at the wind farm’s site, in a federal lease area around 35 miles off Montauk Point. 

While everyone seemed committed to reaching a workable solution, plans for a new outdoor pavilion behind the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, at the Woods Lane gateway to East Hampton Village, brought more than the usual amount of opposition at a public hearing on Friday before the village zoning board of appeals.

The Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair will bring a full day of fun, food, and fanfare to the grounds of the Gardiner Brown House on Main Street on Saturday.

The Last Gasp, published by East Hampton High School’s class of 1912 as part of its graduation festivities, is one of the earliest student publications in the Long Island Collection.

The big booms are back, it seems, in Montauk. Late last Thursday night, a caller reported hearing one in the vicinity of the Surf Lodge. An officer responded but couldn’t find anything amiss, and the call was deemed “unfounded.” Two nights later, two more people made similar reports, but again, officers found nothing.

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles has unveiled a new $60 custom license plate featuring the Montauk Lighthouse. Only, there is one problem.

Helen Darlene Barnard, who grew up in Bridgehampton and was affectionately known as Ty, died on April 28 in Portsmouth, Va. The cause was complications of breast cancer. She was 70.

Albert Sanders, who ran an innovative die-casting company and had a house in East Hampton for 40 years, died at home in Manhattan on June 7 at the age of 103.

Kathleen Louise Neuhaus, a 44-year resident of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 3 at Sebastian River Medical Center in Florida. She was 76 and had been ill for several years.

Patricia Steffan, who worked in publishing and education, died on May 25 at Stony Brook University Hospital. The cause was chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Known as Patsy, she was 84 and had lived in Bridgehampton and New York City.