Following a July 31 incident at the town-owned 140 Springs-Fireplace Road apartments, one man was charged with third-degree misdemeanor assault.

Bernadette Koch, a summer resident of Fairway Place in Montauk, a former model, and a teacher in the New York City public school system for many years, died on July 28 at home in Basking Ridge, N.J. She was 81.

Georges Briguet, who founded three highly regarded Manhattan restaurants — Le Perigord, Le Perigord Park, and La Reserve — between 1966 and 1983, died of a heart-related illness at home in Montauk on July 26. He was 85.

Ernest D. Wildner-Fox, a Parsons-educated interior designer and artist who lived in Montauk for more than 40 years, died on June 26 after two days of hospice care in Lehigh Acres, Fla., where he had been living since 2017. He was 81.

Alexander Kabbaz, a custom shirtmaker whose clients included Leonard Bernstein and Tom Wolfe as well as numerous business titans, world leaders, and celebrities, died in Amagansett on July 21 of a heart attack. He was 72.

Sue Feleppa, a real estate broker and former restaurateur whose community spirit led her to serve on the board of directors of the Amagansett Village Improvement Society and as chairwoman of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, died at home in Springs on July 28 of respiratory failure related to lung cancer.

Visiting hours for James R. Ketcham of Montauk, a former town justice, will be Friday from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

Melissa Bank, an author who taught in the M.F.A. program at Stony Brook Southampton, died of lung cancer at home in East Hampton on Aug. 2.

The Wainscott Sewing Society's annual rummage sale is to take place on Aug. 20 at 9 a.m. at the Wainscott Chapel on Main Street.

East Hampton Town will soon enter into a partnership agreement with the Army Corps of Engineers for long-planned improvements to the navigational channel in Montauk Harbor that include a deepening and widening of the channel. Work is scheduled for the fall of 2023.

Half a dozen drunken-driving charges were lodged this week, including for two incidents that happened on Napeague.

Andrew Malone Jr. of East Hampton died on Monday in Southampton. He was 95. Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton is handling arrangements.

When a self-improvement movement becomes something sinister.

This year, 100 writers will be under a tent in Herrick Park for the East Hampton Library benefit.

East Hampton Town closed Amagansett ocean beaches to swimming around 2 p.m. Wednesday after a surfcaster caught a six-foot spinner shark, and East Hampton Village followed suit, closing all five of its beaches to swimming. 

Once again, the dark side of national Republicans has been put on display.

Officials are on track to complete a document intended to guide the town on policy to face sea level rise and other effects of a warming climate. We have seen this before.

With still more than a month to go before the use of gas-powered leaf blowers will be allowed for fall cleanups, we would like to remind property owners and professional landscapers of the rules.

Deer have radically altered the microhabitat here.

Whenever the subject of romance comes up, I like to say that I reached my peak of popularity in July 1979.