Candidates for Suffolk County’s elected offices have officially been nominated by the Republican and Democratic Committees, with Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine and Dave Calone leading the Republican and Democratic tickets, respectively, for the county executive seat. Manny Vilar of Springs, a Republican, and Ann Welker of Southampton Town, a Democrat, are running for the County Legislature.

While it’s still a mystery as to who actually founded the organization Political Transparency — which has been running ads in The Star and on social media that are highly critical of the current East Hampton Town Board — a spokesman for the related StopEHTownBoard.com did offer some insight into the organization and its goals this week.

In their deliberations to date over proposed new special permitting rules, town board members had emphasized the recent uptick in outsize parties taking place at town beaches and how to rein them in while not spoiling the sun-soaked fun for would-be revelers. But one caterer wondered if such parties were a concern at more isolated beaches.

On Saturday, East End Arts, a nonprofit based in Riverhead, kicks off a monthlong program called Fantastic Art Time for children. Plus: movies, crafts, and story time for kids, and community service opportunities for teens.

More eggs reported stolen from Iacono’s: On Feb. 20, Amanda Iacono told police that two men, one of whom she named, had taken four dozen eggs, priced at $8 a dozen, from the farm’s honor-system egg stand, but had left only $22.

Police arrested three men on drunken-driving charges on East Hampton Town roads this week. One of the incidents involved a car accident.

A 55-year-old Springs man was charged with misdemeanor criminal contempt on Feb. 22, after allegedly violating an order of protection.

In a case dating back to October of 2021, East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky sentenced a 29-year-old East Hampton man on Feb. 15 to a six-month revocation of his driver’s license and two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated.

Christine Stanley, a playwright and poet formerly of Sag Harbor, died of heart failure on Friday at Albany Medical Center. She was 87.

Peter Joseph Deleski Jr., who had been a captain of the Sag Harbor Fire Department’s Otter Hose Company and a 21-year honorary member of the department, died last Thursday at the age of 80.

Billie Kalbacher, who with her husband started the Kalbacher’s Auto and Marine service shop in Springs, died on Feb. 14 at San Simeon on the Sound in Greenport. She was 95.

Visiting hours for Patricia Eames of East Hampton, who died on Tuesday, will be held Thursday, March 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Saturday’s game, which the Mariners won handily, 69-52, was the third time Southampton had defeated Sag Harbor this winter, though Pierson’s coach could take heart in the fact that at times his players looked pretty smooth in breaking a vaunted run-and-jump press.

Kids here who swim, and who play hockey, soccer, baseball, and softball, have been active of late honing skills at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton, the Sportime Arena in Amagansett, and at the Hub 44 building on the way to Springs.

On March 4, 1898, The Star reported that "work has progressed on the bicycle path on Main street in a satisfactory manner this week. Hundreds of loads have already been carted gratuitously, and although the cycle club well knows that it has undertaken a big job, it feels greatly encouraged by the hearty support being given by the citizens."

With elections every two years, it has been said that the main job of members of the House of Representatives who want to remain in office is fund-raising. This puts them at a great distance from actual voters.

For ordinary gun owners, the safety protocols stressed at the Maidstone Gun Club and places like it are in the public interest.

One of the things that has struck me about the rash of dead whales on beaches in the Northeast is that it has been going on for years, millenniums, in fact.

I’m one of those people who has extraordinarily intense dreams and who always wants to talk about them.

John Irving swings for the fences.