While much of the South Fork of Long Island is now in a severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, many East End residents have not changed their watering habits despite warnings from the Suffolk County Water Authority. Not so for East End farmers. For them, water is a factor in every decision they make about which crops to plant, and which to forgo.

The new Three Mile Harbor development, expected to be completed within 18 months, will feature 10 one-bedroom, 29 two-bedroom, and 10 three-bedroom apartments across five two-story residential buildings. Officials broke ground on Aug. 17.

The subcontractor that will perform the onshore cable installation for the South Fork Wind farm plans to use an approximately one-acre area at the end of an abandoned East Hampton Airport runway, adjacent to Industrial Road in Wainscott, as a laydown area. 

Equity was a big talking point last Saturday at the second annual Hamptons Cannabis Expo held at the Clubhouse in East Hampton, where the frequent roar of private jets at East Hampton Airport combined with the aroma of roasting blunts provided a handy metaphor for an event top heavy with accounting firms, insurance representatives, cannabis investors, and multistate operators — large cannabis companies poised to enter a New York pot market that's off and running in a big way.

The East Hampton Town Board, citing rising instances of overclearing of parcels during building construction, voted last Thursday to increase the fees for vegetation compliance reviews. The vote followed an Aug. 16 discussion during which an assistant town attorney and Natural Resources Department official relayed numerous examples of overclearing.

The East Hampton Town Trustees voted on Monday to conduct an aerial drone survey of approximately 50 miles of shoreline, a companion to the recently commenced on-the-ground survey of docks in waterways under their jurisdiction.

The expiration of its 30-year lease of town-owned land is still more than a year away, but the Maidstone Gun Club, which leases some 97 acres of town land off Wainscott Northwest Road at an annual rent of $100, has informed the town it intends to negotiate its renewal.

This invitation to the 1973 Ladies Village Improvement Society Horse Show feels particularly timely considering this year's Hampton Classic Horse Show starts Sunday.

"Right now, our village code, and our zoning code specifically, lacks any regulations pertaining to wireless facilities," Billy Hajek, the East Hampton Village planner, told the trustees. "We've been able to get by without it, but as the population increases there's going to be more demand for wireless facilities."

John Eastman, a prominent entertainment lawyer whose clients included the musicians Paul McCartney and Billy Joel, the Abstract Expressionist painter Willem de Kooning, and the playwright Tennessee Williams, died at his Lily Pond Lane, East Hampton Village, residence on Aug. 10. Mr. Eastman, who had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two months earlier, was 83.

A memorial service for Simon Perchik will take place at Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Mr. Perchik, a longtime resident of that hamlet, was a well-known poet who died on June 14 at the age of 98.

Before starting Robert E. Otto Glass Inc., Bob Otto was a partner with Ward Freese in a similar business. The two parted ways in 1960 and Mr. Otto took the glass business to a storefront on North Main Street in East Hampton. Five years later, he moved it to where it has been ever since, on Montauk Highway in Wainscott. Two generations of Ottos have followed him in the business.

Barbara Anne Sullivan was a fan of the arts. "She took great joy in her home and had a distinctive flair for design," her family said. An enthusiastic reader, she "surrounded herself with beautiful books" and also enjoyed spending time in her garden in Montauk. But "most of all," her family wrote, "she loved traveling and living all over the world with her husband of 64 years, Jim."

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul on Monday updated the official Covid-19 policies for schools, aligning the state with recommendations from the federal Centers for Disease Control. Notable among the changes is a relaxing of quarantine rules and testing requirements.

James Howard Sweeney, who worked as a cinematographer, gaffer, best boy, and props man in the film industry in California for many years, died in his sleep on June 13 at home in Brooklyn.

Sophie Chahinian, founder of the Artist Profile Archive, and Robert Longo, an artist, filmmaker, and musician, were joined by 100 guests on May 21 for a traditional Armenian wedding ceremony followed by a reception and seated dinner at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles.  

In this winning debut, a father drops the ball with his bequeathal, and his daughter searches for answers.

East Hampton Village will soon be home to an enormous platinum bull, in the form of an art installation by the sculptor Enrique Cabrera that will graze for a time in Herrick Park.

Over the summer, 20 more students living in Springs enrolled at East Hampton High School, which means that the Springs School District may be called upon to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars more on tuition than it anticipated.

Adults, teens, and kids have two opportunities coming up to explore the world around them — and above them.