This early photograph shows a group of people in the surf, identified as “Maidstone Club Bathers,” with the esteemed Dr. Everett Herrick in the middle of it all.

This summer marks the first time the Amagansett Library has had a staff member dedicated to teen programming and involvement. Kimberly Parry, the library’s new head of adult and teen services, was born and raised in Sag Harbor, and previously worked at the John Jermain Memorial Library there. She is working to construct a relaxing and welcoming space within the library’s walls for the teens of Amagansett.

School districts across the region are encouraging families in need to apply for a federally funded school meal program that allows schools to provide both breakfast and lunch for free or at reduced cost.

In this week's lineup for kids, teens, and families: A fairy parade, movies and stories, butterflies and birding, and more.

The criminal case against Charles Streep of East Hampton and Manhattan, stemming from a highly publicized altercation in a bank parking lot two summers ago, ended in December when Mr. Streep pleaded guilty to a greatly reduced charge of disorderly conduct. His adversary has since filed a civil case against him.

There were numerous reports of vandalism via spray paint and graffiti in East Hampton Village last Thursday, beginning with a police car that was parked in the lot behind headquarters on North Main Street. Someone sprayed its entire passenger-side blue.

After receiving a congratulatory call on the afternoon of July 27, an East Hampton woman thought she had won $25 million in a Publisher’s Clearing House giveaway. All she had to do to collect, said the caller, was to wire $850 to an undisclosed Chase Bank branch. She contacted police last Thursday after realizing she’d been scammed.

Bike vs. car; dump drunk vs. Suburban, Suburban vs. Suburban.

A charge of third-degree assault followed a car accident that led to an altercation.

In on accident in Springs at around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 9, a 2005 Audi left the road and hit a retaining wall, a basketball hoop, and a mailbox at a house on Guernsey Lane, sustaining significant damange. A trail of fluid from the accident led police to the vehicle, which the driver had parked at her nearby home.

The manager at Sag Harbor’s popular Corner Bar, told Sag Village police last Thursday morning that a patron who had become ill after eating a dish of mussels was harassing the restaurant.

After police pulled over a Sagaponack man for going 90 miles per hour ina. 30 m.p.h. zone, a slew of charges followed incouding two felonies and misdemeanors for allegedly driving while intoxicated.

When she was in her 60s, Nula Murphy Thanhauser turned her passion for collecting antique and vintage purses into a second career, selling, appraising, and lecturing about them all over the country. She favored the most whimsical of Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Egyptian Revival handbags and accessories. At one of her first shows, in 2006 in West Palm Beach, Fla., “customers were six deep in her booth,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly, a trade publication, reported at the time.

On Saturday night well after hours, when most lifeguards are home and dry, Thomas Casse was at a dinner party at the Montauk Shores Condominiums just east of Ditch Plain when another attendee, Sophie Walton, first heard a faint cry for help.

Joseph John Raffel Jr., 89, a craftsman, painter, miniaturist, and bird carver who retired in 1992 from a 35-year career with the Long Island Lighting Company, died of lung cancer on July 22 at Saratoga Hospital in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Katherine Lathrop McSpadden, an artist, teacher, and gardener who was known as Kate, spent every summer of her life until her mid-20s in Amagansett. She grew up sailing on Gardiner’s Bay at the Devon Yacht Club, riding at Stony Hill Stables, and her landscape paintings were inspired by the ocean vistas on Bluff Road, her family said.

Dozens of writers were on hand Saturday night for the East Hampton Library’s annual Authors Night, a celebration of all things literary. 

A coalition has formed to stop the proposed redevelopment of the former Wainscott sand and gravel pit into a 50-lot commercial and industrial subdivision and to advocate instead for East Hampton Town to purchase the property for open space and municipal purposes.

Among the food-forward events planned for this weekend are benefits for institutions like Amber Waves Farm, the Springs Food Pantry, and the Amagansett Fire Department.

Again the Hampton Lifeguard Association, a team comprising guards from East Hampton and Southampton Towns, enjoyed a strong outing at the United States Lifesaving Association’s championships, which were held last week at Hermosa Beach, Calif.