With Thanksgiving just a few weeks away, local libraries are encouraging teens to express gratitude.

Two young men were charged last weekend with driving while intoxicated on local roads.

After allegedly striking and breaking a bedroom door in a Cosdrew Lane basement a woman was charged with second-degree manacing.

Ronald John Hansen of Amagansett, an employee of the McCoy fuel company for many years, died on Oct. 23 at the Hospice House in East Northport. He was 79.

A graveside service for Wallace Smith, general manager of WPPB, WLIU, and WPBX radio in Southampton for 25 years and a familiar voice on the FM airwaves, will be on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Shelter Island Cemetery. Mr. Smith died on Oct. 27.

A celebration of Joe O’Connell’s life will be held on Nov. 12 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Old Stove Pub in Sagaponack. Mr. O’Connell, a retired educator, died on Oct. 10.

A funeral service for Jennifer Mary Hartig, an English-born stage actress who lived in Noyac, will take place on Saturday at noon at the Shelter Island Funeral Home on West Neck Road. Her ashes will be dispersed into the bay.

Matt Charron has spent many of his Saturdays over the past two-plus years helping Habitat for Humanity of Long Island build new houses for families just like his for whom home ownership was always just out of reach. On Monday, the tables were turned, as others pitched in to raise the walls on a Habitat house in East Hampton that is being built for Mr. Charron and his 15-year-old son, Jackson.

Most East End voters will find three propositions on the back of their ballots this election, labeled One, Two, and Three. We believe that each should be approved.

A friend called a single flower that emerged from a thin cosmos plant on my office window this week the “miracle on Main Street.”

On Sunday at dinner time, the evening before All Hallows Eve, my son, who just turned 13, decided he wanted to wear a costume for the first time since he was small.

This would be a good Hallowe’en to be visited by ghouls and ghosts because the Mohs surgery I’ve had lately has prompted Mary to sing “My Funny Frankenstein” from time to time.

There is, as you may know, homelessness in East Hampton Town.

The Group of 7 has decided to cap the price it will pay for Russian oil. There may be lessons for that challenge in U.S. history, from World War I to the coal wars of 1922.

On the election, pollinator gardens, and plastics.

It’s the return of the South Fork real estate transaction report . . .

Halloween of 1922 brought out the entire village Police Department, but each officer exercised “more than his usual forbearance on that particular night.”

Chris Miller at Westlake Marina in Montauk confirmed that the fishing has been good on several fronts. “The bass fishing is holding up,” he said. “Sea bass too have been cooperating, but many are focused on blackfish, which has been very good since the season opened two weeks ago.”

The scope of what will happen if the Republican Party takes control of the House is mind-boggling.

The Bonackers, in “their best game of the season,” according to Joe McKee, their coach, won 41-20 at Eastport-South Manor Friday night, capping their return to Division III football with a 2-6 record. Plus more in local sports action.