The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation on Friday issued its annual reminder to New Yorkers to steer clear of marine mammals that have come ashore. Whales, dolphins, porpoises, and seals, the D.E.C. reminds us, "are protected by federal and state laws to ensure they are not harmed and to keep people at a safe distance."

Tripoli Patterson has organized a pop-up exhibition in Australia, where he competed in the World Qualifying Series, a surfing competition, 19 years ago.

Viewers of Noah Baumbach's latest film, "White Noise," may know of the director's connection to the area (a house on the North Fork), but might be surprised to find another East End connection. It's of a more recent vintage, but with long and illustrious roots.

Hank Willis Thomas's acclaimed sculpture "The Embrace" was unveiled last week in Boston, but last year the artist and his work were all over the South Fork.

Mary Ellen Bartley at the Drawing Room, Knowles exhibition tour at Watermill Center, plywood and ceramics at Halsey McKay, and Amy Zerner in L.A.

Meditative music at The Church, John Gladstone joins LTV, Choral Society to hold auditions, Jake Lear brings blues to Sag Harbor.

Long Island Restaurant Week is coming soon, the East Hampton Grill at home, a talk and cooking event on the cuisines brought from Africa by the enslaved, and more

The Southampton Town Police Department and Suffolk County Crime Stoppers are searching for four men who they say used fake $10 and $20 bills to buy merchandise at Walgreens in Bridgehampton Commons last week.

East Hampton Town Democrats and Republicans have put out the call for people interested in running for public office this year.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced Friday that he will retire from public service at the end of this year, opting not to seek re-election to a fourth term. His deputy supervisor, Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, will seek the Democrats' nomination for supervisor.

Two religious institutions, Calvary Baptist Church and the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork, have ceremonies planned to mark the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday on Monday.

Registration opened last week for East Hampton Little League, including tee ball, baseball, and softball programs for kids as young as 5 and up to seventh grade.

Three years ago at this time, East Hampton High’s wrestling team, then coached by Jim Stewart with Ethan Mitchell as his assistant, won its first match in five years, edging West Babylon 46-41 thanks to Alex Vanegas’s win by pin at 145 pounds in the penultimate bout, marking the beginning of a resurgence in the sport’s fortunes here. 

The 10-and-under Peconic Wildcat ice hockey team, coached by Jason Craig, played Saturday and Sunday at the Buckskill Winter Club here and won both games, improving to 9-0 in league play. Although, “because we can’t play as many games as the teams up the Island do, we’ll need to win most of our remaining league games to make the playoffs,” Chris Minardi, the scorekeeper, said. 

Doug De Groot first had the idea of building a padel court accessible to the public here about eight years ago. Though it has taken a while — a puzzling permit denial prevented him from finishing one last year at the Buckskill Tennis Club, which he owns with his wife, Kathryn — he now, with Southampton Village’s blessing, has one up at the Triangle Tennis Club on Hampton Road. 

“Degraded, inadequate, and poorly maintained.” That’s how East Hampton Town Police detectives characterized the safety management systems at the Maidstone Gun Club’s 200-yard rifle range during an investigation into a bullet, allegedly originating from the club, that struck a Merchants Path house on Aug. 5, 2022.

A year and four months after learning the truth about Capt. William J. Rysam’s role in slave trading in the founding days of this community, the East Hampton Town Trustees on Monday voted unanimously to drop his name from the scholarship they award annually to a graduating senior from East Hampton High School.

Last week housing for a feral cat colony living under the pavilion at Sagg Main Beach was dismantled and the colony was dispersed. After being sent photos of cat prints in the sand near a piping plover colony, the American Bird Conservancy had threatened to sue the Southampton Town trustees for not doing enough to protect the plovers, which are considered endangered in New York State.

The entity behind the recent series of blistering print and social media advertisements targeting members of the East Hampton Town Board relative to the proposed privatization of the town airport, has been identified as a recently formed not-for-profit organization calling itself Political Transparency, Inc., but in charging the board with a lack of transparency, the group has raised numerous unanswered questions about its own transparency.

Bamboo bans, beach party limits, and the proposed $25-million-plus new senior center on town-owned land were all on Tuesday’s East Hampton Town Board agenda.