A lawsuit brought by four Wainscott residents challenging the onshore construction of the South Fork Wind farm, one of many efforts to stop its construction via the courts, was dismissed by a federal judge this week. 

Auditors told the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday that they found nothing amiss in a review of the town's finances. "Everything’s really in good shape,” Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said.

A new swimming and water safety program has been added to the lineup of activities at the Project Most summer camp, where kids can now take swim lessons five days a week.

Pierson Middle and High School will be a "phone-free space" in the 2023-24 school year, with the school district adopting technology often used at concerts and comedy shows to stash away cellphones.

In the lineup for kids and teens this week: unicorn art, virtual reality games, movie screenings, homemade ice cream, and more.

An automatic fire alarm in the butler’s pantry at a Somers Place house in Sag Harbor was triggered on the morning of July 12. Firefighters attributed it to “overtoasted toast in the toaster.”

The Huntting Inn wants to add a swimming pool to its property, to which at least one neighbor has objected. “If the application is granted, I imagine the Maidstone Inn, Hedges Inn, Mill House Inn, and perhaps some B&Bs, will ask for [a pool], and the fresh precedent will be difficult to overcome,” Frank Morgan told the Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

This book, from the East Hampton Town Historic Records, recorded each unique livestock earmark in East Hampton and to whom the mark was registered.

John R. Lycke, a Montauk entrepreneur who built and owned the Montauk Laundromat, among other local businesses, died of respiratory failure on June 25 at Citrus Memorial Hospital in Inverness, Fla. He was 85.

Lila Margulies of Brooklyn and Amagansett, a former guidance counselor and teacher, died on July 12 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 49 and had lung cancer.

Mary Milholland Dick, who spent her childhood summers in her family’s house in the dunes next to the Maidstone Club, died at home in East Hampton on July 11. She was 93.

Carolyn Ann Parker, who had a 23-year career in billing and collections for the W.C. Esp fuel company in Bridgehampton, died on July 11 after a short illness at New Pond Village in Walpole, Mass., where she had lived since 2011. Formerly of Wainscott, she was 92.

In addition to receiving visitors today from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, with burial tomorrow at 10 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, a memorial service for Lucas DeSario will now take place at the Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Catholic Church hall in Bridgehampton at 11 a.m. tomorrow.

I-Tri’s youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach and the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s run-swim-run at Amagansett’s Atlantic Avenue Beach led off a big weekend for athletic events here.

Cole Brauer, a 2012 graduate of East Hampton High School, recently became the first female ever to win the Bermuda One-Two sailing race, which began with a single-handed 668-nautical-mile leg from Newport, R.I., to St. George’s, and ended with a double-handed St. George’s-to-Newport leg.

The fishing for fluke has continued to deteriorate in Block Island Sound where dozens of boats used to drift their baited hooks on a daily basis in summer. Looking at my log book on the ride out, I noted that I had made two trips last summer and we failed to land a keeper. Not good.

Pickleball, says Erin McHugh, who gave a talk on the popular paddle sport at BookHampton not long ago, “takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master,” favoring strategy and finesse.

Eating out is lovely on a summer evening. But it has also created a potential mess by possibly almost doubling the number of patrons on site at any one time.

We have been here many times before. Officials and citizens vow to take a fresh look at building rules in the face of overdevelopment, but, in the end, little changes.

Our climate reality has shifted from a sense that it could happen here to it actually is happening here already.