The owners of a historic timber frame house on Montauk Highway in East Hampton Village appeared before the village’s design review board on Tuesday to seek a retroactive certificate of appropriateness after gutting the house during renovations.

In this photo from The East Hampton Star’s photo archive, William Cooper (b. 1899), owner and proprietor of Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk, is seen on a hay-covered truck bed next to several calves.

Someone broke into the basement of the Memory Motel in Montauk on March 26 and destroyed more than $250 worth of bottles of Jagermeister and Maker’s Mark liquors. Employees cleaned up the mess.

The Bonackers pull off a thrilling victory over Sayville in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Killer Bees take to the diamond, boys lacrosse wins while the girls fight on, and a young softball team stays positive.

As of earlier this week, East Hampton High’s boys tennis team, arguably one of the top three in Suffolk County, was 2-2. But with two 7-0 wins against league opponents, things were looking up.

From a Bridgehampton Killer Bees championship run to a 2-mile run at a vineyard, it happened here, sports fans.

And our readers weigh in. Boy, do they . . .

The day Patrolman Glen Stonemetz's 1953 Chevrolet sedan got torched in the Newtown Lane parking lot. And much more ripped from the pages of The Star of yore.

Van Kay Quick, who retired as a captain after a 35-year career in the East Hampton Town Police Department, had been a president of the East Hampton Police Benevolent Association and the Police Association of Suffolk County and spearheaded the computerization of the department's records in the late 1980s.

Salvatore Vacca of Sagaponack and New York City, who was a successful importer of Italian food products, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on March 22. He was 93.

Pat DeRosa of Montauk, who over a long career performed with legendary musicians including John Coltrane, Lionel Hampton, Dick Hyman, Glenn Miller, Toots Thielemans, Boyd Raeburn, Tex Beneke, and Percy Faith, died on March 30 at the age of 101.

Claudia Grace Walter, who had lived in Montauk for many years and relocated to Estero, Fla., in 2014, died of cancer on March 6. She was 86.

Shelba Kay Midgett, a chambermaid and house cleaner, died at home in East Hampton on March 18. She was 78 and had lived on Bayview Avenue for 46 years.

East Hampton Town officials say they are getting tough on so-called temporary measures to save properties from erosion. We’ll believe it when we see it.

It is increasingly accepted that alternative ways of getting around, ones that do not require fossil fuels, can help reduce planet-warming gases, but there is another direct benefit: money.

Tick season is upon us again, and so are conversations about the East End’s public enemy number one.

The other day, when looking into family history for a column, I read a New Yorker magazine profile of a charming rustic character by the name of Everett Joshua Edwards: my great-grandfather.

Keeping tabs on the on-again-off-again check engine light.

Carl Johnson hopes Bridgehampton can remain a year-round community.