An East Hampton builder has published a book that advocates for the adoption of a mechanism that he says will harness the free market to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, empowering consumers to choose climate-friendly products in the process.

The Long Island Rail Road has added more trains to its South Fork Commuter Connection on Fridays, increasing service and, let’s hope, removing more cars from the clogged Montauk Highway. The new Friday trains will operate year round.

To celebrate the start of spring, this photo depicts the Garden Club of East Hampton’s first flower show in 1916 at the home of May Groot Manson on Main Street in the village.

For the first time ever, East Hampton Village will offer a lifeguard certification at its own beaches, the village’s head lifeguard, Drew Smith, announced earlier this month.

An East Hampton moviegoer complained to police on Friday afternoon that the theater manager had taken a picture of him. The manager told police she had taken a photo not of him, but rather of the dog he had brought with him to the theater.

Shane Filasky of East Hampton has been sentenced to one to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a felony count of third-degree attempted robbery of an East Hampton store on Jan. 26, 2022.

The Sag Harbor Village treasurer told village police last Thursday that money had been stolen from a village payroll account to the tune of $10,200 via fraudulent checks.

When a water line break in East Hampton Village flooded several businesses a month ago, Gubbins Running Ahead, a sporting goods shop on Park Place, lost all of its inventory, including 7,000 pairs of athletic footwear. Last week, Geary Gubbins, who has run the sporting goods shop since 2013, parlayed his business’s misfortune into an act of generosity for a local nonprofit.

Elizabeth de Cuevas of Amagansett and New York City, who used the name Strong-Cuevas as an artist, died on March 19 at her Manhattan apartment. She was 94 and had been unwell for only a few days.

Priscilla Alden Duer Cohen of Sag Harbor and Manhattan, called Alden by those who knew her, died at home on Sullivan Street in Manhattan on March 12 after a brief illness. She was 96.

Ann Virginia Porter, who was a social worker at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City before retiring to Wainscott, died on March 4 at home there. She was 97 and had cancer.

Dolores Klaich, a journalist, editor, and educator formerly of East Hampton, died on March 8, International Women’s Day, in the Brattleboro, Vt., home where she had lived since 2004. She was 86.

Patricia Eames, who was active in Amagansett’s commercial fishing community for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 28. She was 85.

Teresa Carlin Kratzman of Augie’s Path in East Hampton, an executive and philanthropist who was passionate about education, died on March 18 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. She was 59.

William Ward Carey, an investment banker who lived on Dunemere Lane in East Hampton Village, died on Saturday at the Landing at Laurel Lake, an assisted living facility in Lee, Mass. He was 85 and had Parkinson’s disease.

Carl Johnson, who played on three state-championship teams and won four as a coach under Bridgehampton High School’s banner, a feat that remains unique in state basketball history, was inducted into New York’s Basketball Hall of Fame at Glens Falls during the championship weekend two weeks ago.

The South Fork Islanders, the combined boys lacrosse team based at Southampton High School that has nine East Hamptoners on it, debuted here Friday in a nonleaguer against the Stony Brook School, and found the going easy.

Despite a “quick, tight turnaround,” in the coach Yani Cuesta’s words, East Hampton High’s girls track team began the season here last Thursday with a 76-64 win over Hauppauge.

East Hampton High’s boys tennis team lost 6-1 at top-ranked Ward Melville in a nonleaguer on March 21, while the girls flag football team debuted at William Floyd on Friday, losing 31-13.

A heartbreaking story in The New York Times this week described in detail some state legislatures’ disastrous ideological rejection of federal Medicaid payments.