Late Saturday night or early Sunday, at a house on Clinton Street in Springs, vandals spray-painted the front door, a mailbox, and multiple cars with pink paint. A resident reported hearing “loud exhaust, possibly a dirt bike” around midnight.

A Water Mill man was charged with felony driving while intoxicated Sunday afternoon. Police said his 5-year-old niece was asleep in the back seat of the car at the time of the traffic stop.

The East Hampton Town Board will hold a public hearing this afternoon on the proposed acquisition of nearly 11 acres on Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs using community preservation fund money. Should the board approve the purchase, the town will pay $5 million for the 10.9 acres.

Carlo Grossman, the developer of Amagansett Square, died at home in East Hampton on May 5. Mr. Grossman, who was 90, had Parkinson’s, kidney, and cardiovascular disease.

A memorial for Robert Brierley Loughead Jr., an important figure with the Village Preservation Society and the East Hampton Healthcare Foundation, will be held on June 16 at 3 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton. Mr. Loughead died on Aug. 23, 2022.

Meredith Spolarich, a Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School senior competing for East Hampton High School’s girls track-and-field team, won the Suffolk County Class B pentathlon championship last Thursday in Kings Park on the strength of first-place finishes in the high jump, long jump, and shot-put.

It happened here, sports fans.

Jiu-jitsu is now a full-fledged elective class at the Ross School in East Hampton, taught in trimesters of 10 weeks at a time by Virva Hinnemo of Springs.

The Bridgehampton-Ross School baseball team, in only its second season as a varsity squad since its return from a 43-year hiatus, is set to play Chapel Field High School in upstate Saugerties on Saturday in a regional playoff game.

“Oh man, there are striped bass and bluefish everywhere,” Paul Apostolides said from behind his countertop. “The action has been truly fantastic. More people need to take advantage of it.”

In the nearly 85 years since the 1938 Hurricane, the Atlantic climate has become more favorable for storm formation.

When a mostly wooden bridge over the Long Island Rail Road tracks in Amagansett dating to 1895 began to fall apart and was abruptly closed to traffic recently, few residents who frequently use it were surprised.

Considering how many osprey one can see around here these days, it is hard to imagine that not all that long ago they were thought to be in danger of extinction.

The more oblivion looms, the more you want to pay attention, the more you want to listen and learn, the more you want to do things as well as you can.

Family war stories.

While a prostate cancer diagnosis can set off alarm bells, one of the lessons I learned is that research and knowledge will dispel many negative myths.

The year 1973 saw the rise of women in East Hampton Town politics, while 1998 saw the rise of the Rennert property in the Sagaponack dunes.

When it comes to Truck Beach and the airport, it’s time to judge the judge. And much more in this week’s raft of letters.

Houses in the Hamptons: They ain’t cheap! Check out the latest transactions here . . .

Lovers of art and music should head east to Montauk this weekend.