After coaching East Hampton High School’s boys basketball team for the past seven years, Dan White resigned last week to coach at Pierson High in Sag Harbor, where he teaches.

Notes from the Summer Colony, and more from the days of yore.

East Hampton Town officials are beginning to practice what they have long preached when it comes to wastewater by installing modern wastewater systems at public restrooms and elsewhere. It’s high time.

With smartphone maps, there are no back roads anymore, and more tie-ups are the result.

It is my opinion that so long as they are fed, their tank is relatively clean, and they are around some kind of action for entertainment, goldfish become part of the family.

So much of our time, especially in the summer, is taken up with running into proof positive that strangers are total idiots.

Sag Harbor’s Jordan’s Run is always worth it. Just don’t miss the ceremonies.

Pretty much everything that makes life worth living has been axed in the Wainscott School District as the result of two budget turndowns.

This experiment would be part of my personal plan to adopt a more planet-friendly lifestyle.

From East Hampton to Southampton — over two dozen L.L.C. transactions.

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After a four-year hiatus, Heart of Springs, a benefit for Ashawagh Hall, the Springs Library, and the Springs Presbyterian Church, will take place on Sunday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. under a tent on the lawn at Ashawagh Hall.

Colson Whitehead reads from his new novel, “Crook Manifesto,” Thursday night in Sag Harbor, while Bill Boggs is in East Hampton Saturday with “Spike Unleashed: The Wonder Dog Returns.”

Paul McCartney’s “1964: Eyes of the Storm” collects more than 200 photographs he took with a Pentax camera late in 1963 and early in 1964.

Authors Night, Saturday, Aug. 12, Herrick Park, East Hampton. Be there.

A benefit softball game between the staff and members of the South Fork Country Club last month raised $30,000 for the East Hampton, Springs, and Montauk food pantries.

“Susan Wood: On Location,” an exhibition at the Sag Harbor Cinema, highlights the work of the magazine photographer on the sets of such iconic 1960s films as “Hatari!”, “Mirage,” and “Easy Rider.”

Markus Klinko's celebrity photos hold up a mirror to society, according to the photographer, whose work is at the White Room Gallery in Bridgehampton.

The three concerts of Music for Montauk’s summer music series will range from Brahms to shorter chamber pieces to Afro-Cuban and Afro-Puerto Rican music stylings.

James Brooks, an Abstract Expressionist painter who with his wife Charlotte Park was integral to the New York School and the East End art community, is having a career-spanning retrospective at the Parrish Art Museum.