It is difficult to know yet whether disaster was averted or just delayed by a United States Supreme Court decision released this week in an important voting case.

Lessons learned in early employment.

Giving it all at a Little League game.

Words of unity at a graduation ceremony on Pierson Hill.

It was never going to be easy for the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals to rule against the Shagwong Tavern in Montauk. This week after wrestling with language and the weight of history it sided with the tavern, deciding in a split vote that the Shagwong is not a nightclub even when the tables are pushed aside for dancing, but that it still must comply with fire codes.

Moving on after the death of my father involved moving, literally towing, his riding lawn mover and all it signified.

It was a week without bombast among home buys on the South Fork from the spring.

The dissolution of a writer’s marriage, one essay at a time.

From movie quotes to history lessons to Taylor Swift lyrics, Saturday's Pierson High School commencement ceremony contained no shortage of sage life advice for the 61 seniors graduating in the traditional fashion on Sag Harbor's Pierson Hill.

LTV Studios in Wainscott is hosting eight weeks of podcasting workshops with Tony Dec, an industry veteran who was the founding co-director of Stony Brook Southampton's Podcast Fellows program and its lead instructor until 2022.

Earl Hopson, a wide receiver in football, shooting guard in basketball, and all-county long-jumper, Erin Bock Abran, an all-county field hockey and softball player, and Kim Valverde-Solis, a four-time all-county girls volleyballer, are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame in the fall.

James Bradley, 16, has qualified for the U.S.G.A.’s national junior amateur in South Carolina in late July, and Michael Clifford-Levy, 15, won the Long Island Golf Association’s boys championship in Smithtown on June 21.

Things were looking up on the local diamonds last week, from Little Leaguers up to the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League’s Sag Harbor Whalers, who are hosting a number of day camps and clinics this summer.

Lots of bass between 30 and 50 pounds continue to be caught and released off Montauk. Finding fish in the new smaller slot size has been a challenge at times. Plenty of bluefish are mixed in too.

After pleading guilty in January to first-degree manslaughter in the 2022 death of Kevin Somers, Marc Dern of Springs was sentenced in a negotiated disposition Monday to five years in prison and five years of supervised release.

Meet Mary Ellen Matthews, the "Saturday Night Live" photographer behind the show's eye-catching "bumpers" (the photos of the hosts and musical guests that are placed before or after commercials), opening credits, and quite a lot more.

The renovations at Guild Hall continue apace, with upgraded galleries, gardens, and lobby ready to welcome visitors for the first time in over a year, and improvements to every system in the building.

East Hampton High School's class of 2023 graduated on Friday, and in speeches and reflections during the ceremony, it was apparent that the 226 graduates are ready to take on challenges both physical and mental as they go out into the world. "I look at all of you and I immediately consider you to be builders," said the principal, Sara Smith.

The Leonard Frisbie store in East Hampton features casual, stylish menswear, responsibly sourced and manufactured, and at surprisingly reasonable prices.

The history and contributions of the enslaved, indentured, and free people of color on the East End will be celebrated in an exhibition and talk at the Eastville Community Historical Society and a film program at the Sag Harbor Cinema.