With the hope that voters will see it as a good-faith gesture that turns some no votes into yeses, Wainscott School District officials have slightly trimmed their proposed 2023-24 budget ahead of a June 20 revote. The new plan, totaling $6,144,331, “is effectively the contingency budget,” said David Eagan, president of the school board.

The Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, the Southampton Town Trustees, and the Nature Conservancy have installed 13 split-rail fences at sensitive junctures along the greenbelt to discourage mountain bikers, e-bikers, dirt bikers, and A.T.V. riders. But they get ripped out.

“This is not an easy holiday. It’s not an easy thing to lose someone in service for our country,” said Jimbo Theinert, the guest speaker on Memorial Day in Sag Harbor, and brother of First Lt. Joseph J. Theinert of Shelter Island, who was killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan on June 4, 2010.

An East Hampton Town proposal for 16 affordable housing units on a vacant 12-acre parcel at 395 Pantigo Road in East Hampton is set for a public hearing Wednesday before the town planning board. It would be the third affordable housing project in the pipeline for the town, where both the public and private sectors are having difficulty finding and keeping employees, in part due to a lack of housing options.

Three weeks ago, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and its Atlantic Striped Bass Management Board voted to approve an emergency measure to lower the maximum striped bass size to 31 inches. The current “slot” regulation in New York allows anglers to keep one bass between 28 and 35 inches in length per day. However, there has been pushback from local political representatives on the reduced slot for the highly-prized striper before the New York Department of Environmental Conservation moves forward with a formal ruling.

The House of Representatives voted 314 to 117 Wednesday night to suspend the debt ceiling for two years and set federal spending limits, sending the Fiscal Responsibility Act to the Senate, but Representative Nick LaLota was disappointed his SALT reduction amendment was not included.

As installation of the South Fork Wind farm’s monopile foundations nears, the first American-built offshore wind substation is making its way to the site. A ship carrying the substation set sail from Ingleside, Tex., on May 24. The 1,500-ton, 60-foot-tall substation will sit on a monopile foundation within the 12-turbine, 132-megawatt wind farm, collecting the power generated by the turbines and connecting it to the electrical grid.

The East Hampton Town Democratic Committee will launch its 2023 campaign next Thursday with an event from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Clubhouse in Wainscott. Those attending will be able to meet the Democratic slate in this fall’s elections.

With about $2 million in hand for water quality improvement projects, East Hampton Town has put out a call for applications for projects that will improve wastewater treatment, abate pollutants, and restore aquatic habitats.

In its first year broadcasting to the public on Instagram and YouTube, East Hampton High School's student-run news show took home a second-place award for Best Anchor Duo at the BASH Awards at Hofstra University, out of a field of close to 30 high schools, on May 15.

The Guild Hall Teen Arts Council will model its line of original upcycled fashion designs on Saturday at the Leiber Collection in Springs. Plus: teen community service opportunities, STEM and art activities, feeding time at the SoFo museum, and more.

Wedding traditions are as numerous and varied as the couples marrying, and one for many Jewish couples is the huppah, a canopy meant to represent the home soon to be shared by the couple. At the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, the huppah is not merely a temporary structure for weddings, but rather a permanent outdoor art installation.

Late Saturday night or early Sunday, at a house on Clinton Street in Springs, vandals spray-painted the front door, a mailbox, and multiple cars with pink paint. A resident reported hearing “loud exhaust, possibly a dirt bike” around midnight.

A Water Mill man was charged with felony driving while intoxicated Sunday afternoon. Police said his 5-year-old niece was asleep in the back seat of the car at the time of the traffic stop.

The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing this afternoon on the proposed acquisition of nearly 11 acres on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs using community preservation fund money. Should the board approve the purchase, the town will pay $5 million for the 10.9 acres.

Carlo Grossman, the developer of Amagansett Square, died at home in East Hampton on May 5. Mr. Grossman, who was 90, had Parkinson’s, kidney, and cardiovascular disease.

A memorial for Robert Brierley Loughead Jr., an important figure with the Village Preservation Society and the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation, will be held on June 16 at 3 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Mr. Loughead died on Aug. 23, 2022.

Meredith Spolarich, a Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School senior competing for East Hampton High School’s girls track-and-field team, won the Suffolk County Class B pentathlon championship last Thursday in Kings Park on the strength of first-place finishes in the high jump, long jump, and shot-put.

It happened here, sports fans.

Jiu-jitsu is now a full-fledged elective class at the Ross School in East Hampton, taught in trimesters of 10 weeks at a time by Virva Hinnemo of Springs.