The East Hampton Town Trustees approved the construction next year of two oyster reefs in Accabonac Harbor, and an East Hampton High School student will be the primary caretaker of one of them.

It’s beach house or bust in Amy Fusselman’s comic debut novel.

As Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District touts the website RealClearPolitics’ status change of his campaign for governor of New York from “leans Democratic” to “tossup,” his opponent, Gov. Kathy Hochul, is emphasizing Mr. Zeldin’s role in attempting to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election.

It’s been nearly six weeks since a malware infestation crippled Suffolk County’s computer systems, and while the county has adopted numerous workarounds to address the ransomware attack since Sept. 8 — there’s a long way to go before it’s business as usual, especially when it comes to real estate transactions.

Fourteen East Hampton Town residents who were issued summonses for trespassing during a protest at what is popularly known as Truck Beach on Napeague last October had their case summarily dismissed in Southampton Town Justice Court in Hampton Bays on Tuesday, in what their attorney called a victory for all residents of the town.

“The goal here can be narrowed down to ‘we need to get carriers to provide complete cell coverage throughout the town and local waters,’ ” said Eric Schantz, the assistant planning director, who called cellular service “substandard and unacceptable,” with poor coverage and poor capacity not just in the summer months but throughout the year.

The candidates challenging incumbents in District 1 of New York State’s Assembly and Senate, one a Republican, one a Democrat, and both in their 20s, were aggressive in attacking their opponents in back-to-back debates on Monday night, but the incumbents were largely if not entirely successful in fending off those attacks while portraying themselves as experienced and capable public servants.

Rita Cantina, a popular Mexican restaurant in Springs, was dealt a blow last week by the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals, whose members agreed with a determination by Ann Glennon, the town’s chief building inspector, that catering businesses on the restaurant premises are operating illegally.

The search for the largest clam in Three Mile Harbor, Hog Creek, and Accabonac Harbor has resumed after heavy rains kept those water bodies closed in advance of the East Hampton Trustees Largest Clam Contest on Oct. 9. Weigh-ins for mammoth specimens from those spots happens Friday at the trustee offices in Amagansett.

On the evening of Oct. 11, for at least the third time this year, someone drove home in the wrong car, thinking it was theirs and prompting a report of a stolen vehicle.

A dispute over access to hunting grounds made the police blotter on Oct. 9 when James Hren of Further Lane, 79, reported that someone had cut down a tree on his property, which runs to Skimhampton Road. He suspected it was done by hunters, he told an officer.

East Hampton Town police reported two traffic accidents involving injuries last week, both in Springs.

She was about to take off when she “felt her brakes stalling and ‘grabbing’ the runway.” After determining that the emergency brake was not engaged, and therefore not the culprit, she deemed it wise to stay on the ground.

“There is a bigger and bigger fury growing about this. We’re not just going away,” warned Janis Donnaud, a Sag Harbor resident, referring to mounting tensions within the community over the district’s plan to buy five residential lots along Marsden Street and turn them into athletic fields.

The popular Springs School Mystery Art Sale will return to Ashawagh Hall in the spring and in the coming weeks there are all sorts of fun and informative activities for students to look forward to

Many agree that preserving John Steinbeck's house in Sag Harbor for use as a writers retreat is a good idea, but there are tensions over the specifics of the plan.

Joseph O’Connell of East Hampton, 87, “lived with conviction, strength and courage — his way — never accepting the status quo, fighting the good fight, and endeavoring to give voice to the voiceless,” wrote his daughter Kathleen O’Connell. Calling him “a hero among men,” she added that his “humor, unwavering ethics, and indestructible values were at the core of his character.”

Rose Pizzorno of Springs, a former teacher aide, died of cardiac arrest on Sept. 20 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after a short illness.

Steven R. Romanowski, an Army veteran who had a four-decade career as a glazier, working on public and private projects, including at the Jacob Javits Center in Manhattan and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., died on Oct. 4 at home in Rensselaerville, N.Y. He was 64.

Eugene Waldstein of East Hampton died on Sept. 13 of acute myelomic leukemia. The former stage manager and television director for NBC was 91.