. . . They’d ask for wallpaper, and they’d ask for Heather Dunn.

A home vegetable gardener offers some hard won advice for getting the most out of your garden along with what grows best here.

The Traceys are embarking this season on an expansion that will see them transition from their previous location, a Peconic Land Trust plot of a little under an acre behind Balsam Farm in Amagansett, to a three-acre property on Montauk Highway that was known as Bhumi Farm for a couple of years.

Frederico Azevedo has always been enamored with nature, flowers in particular. “As a child I would rearrange the plants for fun and plant the ingredients for my favorite foods,” he said. “The exciting thing about this medium is how it can make people happy and open up new parts of your life.” His business, Unlimited Earth Care in Bridgehampton, is celebrating a milestone this year.

The gardens at Home, Sweet Home Museum were dedicated on Sept. 29, 2022, to Loretta Orion, who spent many years restoring and tending them. Ms. Orion, an anthropology professor, a French teacher, an author, a private duty nurse, a seamstress, and an etcher, died in July 2022 at the age of 77. The gardens are always on view for visitors at 14 James Lane.

The nearly 10-year tale of a communications tower at the Springs Fire Department took a turn last week when the department offered the East Hampton Town Planning Board a new preliminary plan for a shorter pole in a different location on its property. In a powerful change of script, the two sides appeared aligned.

Fabian Almazan and his quintet will play at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday. The concert will be preceded at 5 p.m. with an exhibition of photographs by Ric Kallaher and a pre-show reception.

Advocacy organizations and physicians are strongly encouraging families of children with autism to get genetic testing — not just in April, which is Autism Awareness Month, but as a standard practice in this branch of medicine, to gain insight into the spectrum of ways autism impacts kids. “Knowledge is power,” said Dr. Kolevzon, the clinical director of the Seaver Autism Center, who sees at least one South Fork family, the Egerton-Warburtons of Water Mill, in his practice.

Nobody wants to live next to a nightclub, but apparently nobody wants to live next to a mixed-use building with a market, offices, and apartments either. At least that was the vibe at a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Planning Board last week, where residents sounded off on a proposed change of use to a building at 44 Three Mile Harbor Road.

Those coming of age in the 1960s and ‘70s have either arrived at retirement or are about to enter that stage of life soon, comprising a demographic that studies show is both returning to marijuana and trying it for the first time. “It’s the legalization that is piquing people’s curiosity once again,” said David Falkowski, a cannabis expert, grower of industrial hemp, and producer and seller of CBD products. “Old people love weed.”

A new East Hampton Town senior citizens center on Abraham’s Path in Amagansett took another step toward reality on Tuesday when the architects selected for the project presented updated plans to the town board. Design development and construction documentation will continue for another six months, with hopes of putting the project out to bid in the first half of 2024.

The house in question, once known as the Apaquogue, is “the best-preserved 19th-century East Hampton hotel, or boarding house,” according to a report compiled by Robert Hefner, the village’s former director of historic services, but it has no historic protections. Its new owner wants to add dormers, not only to restore it to its original appearance, but also to make the fourth floor more accessible.

Hamptons Whodunit, the first-ever crime festival in East Hampton Village, was a big success, according to Carrie Doyle, the village board member who, along with Jackie Dunphy, Mayor Jerry Larsen, and his wife, Lisa Larsen, co-founded the celebration of  mystery and thriller writers and fans.

Despite a petition in opposition with over 500 signatures from nearby residents, AT&T is moving ahead with plans for construction of a 70-foot cell tower next to the historical St. Peter's Chapel in Springs, and there is not much the East Hampton Town Planning Board can do about it.

New signs offering visual depictions and greater specificity have been installed alongside text-only signs at the East Hampton recycling center on Springs-Fireplace Road, and a new brochure on recycling is being distributed with new permits to use the center.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark Long Island’s first municipal solar-plus-battery-storage project happens on Thursday on the East Hampton Town Hall campus.

In a letter delivered to Representative Nick LaLota of New York’s First Congressional District on April 3, more than 200 constituents complained that he had yet to hold a public “town hall” event. The letter said its signers had hoped Mr. LaLota would “a different kind of representative” than his predecessor, Lee Zeldin, who was largely inaccessible to the general public. Perhaps in response, the congressman scheduled a virtual town hall on Wednesday night.

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee will launch its 2023 campaign next Thursday at the Clubhouse, giving people a chance to meet candidates including Gretta Leon for supervisor and Scott Smith and Michael Wootton for the town board.

The Springs School Board has an uphill mountain to climb as it seeks support from the community for an over-the-tax-cap budget plan that will need a supermajority of at least 60-percent voter approval to pass.

Monday’s deadline for school board candidates to file their petitions has come and gone. Just two local school districts, East Hampton and Wainscott, will have contested races.