Talk about the deadliest catch: A Rhode Island-based trawler fishing off Block Island on Oct. 26 hauled in an unexploded World War II-era depth charge that was later safely detonated by the United States Navy.

“There’s trouble in paradise,” Gail Pellett of ChangeHampton said outside East Hampton Town Hall last Thursday, where a group of elected officials and residents had gathered for a ceremonial groundbreaking for a community pollinator garden that will extend a pollinator pathway that includes another garden and a wildflower meadow in progress on the campus.

The John Behan Memorial Park will be established in Montauk to honor the longtime state assemblyman and Marine Corps veteran who died last year. A ceremonial groundbreaking is planned for Veterans Day, which was also his birthday.

Months after the East Hampton Town Board approved a resolution to revoke all beach driving permits previously issued by the town clerk’s office, in compliance with a court order, the clerk is again issuing beach driving permits to eligible applicants.

The Hayground School’s senior learners spent the last two months as oyster-farming apprentices at the Shinnecock Tribal Hatchery, learning all facets of growing and caring for the bivalves that play a critical role in cleaning South Fork waters and feeding the local economy.

East Hampton Village is installing banners on village lampposts along Route 27 this week, celebrating local residents who were war veterans.

A 183-foot-long lift boat with jack-up legs taller than the Statue of Liberty was to have arrived at Bridgeport Harbor in Connecticut last night, after which it will make its way to the waters off Wainscott Beach, where it will be used in the initial offshore construction of the South Fork Wind farm.

The nonprofit South Fork Performing Arts theater company is putting an emphasis on its performers’ triple-threat talents for the first time, with a production of the musical “Chicago: Teen Edition” that opens Friday at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, an initiative to help people safely dispose of unneeded medications, with collection sites planned in East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, an initiative to help people safely dispose of unneeded medications, with collection sites planned in East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

Saturday is STOP Day, or Stop Throwing Out Pollutants Day, in East Hampton Town. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., residents can take hazardous materials found in the average residence to the Montauk transfer station at 365 Montauk Highway.

Feed the East End 2022, a campaign to raise money for food pantries across the region, has kicked off a virtual silent auction featuring more than 75 prizes donated by local businesses and prominent community members.

A Harbor View Drive resident told police on Sunday that a drunken man had been banging on his door at 3 that morning. At 3:08 a.m., a neighbor called as well, saying there was a drunk on his front lawn who kept approaching his front door. Officers escorted the man home.

A driver whom Sag Harbor Village police did not identify admitted to doing doughnuts in the parking lot of 373 Main Street late Saturday night, just before her car rolled over.

East Hampton Town is developing “Green East Hampton,” a new page on its website highlighting accomplishments in environmental protection and sustainability.

Jack Perna, the longtime district superintendent and principal of the Montauk School, has announced that he will retire in June after more than 40 years of service to the district.

Mobilization was to begin this week for the commencement of a stormwater abatement and control project at the Louse Point Road parking area and beach access in Springs.

John King, the Springs School District’s athletic director, pitched a plan on Tuesday to have all of the district’s seventh and eighth graders undergo baseline cognitive testing for the management of potential concussions during school sports, gym class, or other school activities.

This broadside establishes Elisha Baldwin’s candidacy for county clerk as a member of the American Party in 1855. Baldwin (1821-1865) was at the time a Queens County resident and part of a long-established family there.

Registered voters in the Sag Harbor School District can cast their ballots Thursday on a proposal allowing the district to spend $3.325 million from its reserve on a land deal that would also involve a separate contribution from Southampton Town’s community preservation fund.