The iconic movie that premiered in the summer of 1975 and scared swimmers away from the water will once again come to life when Capt. Pat Mundus, daughter of the famed shark hunter Capt. Frank Mundus, will speak at the Cutchogue Library on the 50th anniversary of the film.

There are scholar-athletes and then there are scholar-athletes. Benson Edman, an East Hampton High School senior who effectively swept the athletic and academic awards given out here recently to the class of 2025, is probably as good an example of the term as you can find.

For the first time in its 46-year history, Saturday’s Shelter Island 10K was won by a local runner, Ryan Fowkes, a 24-year-old East Hamptoner and Virginia Tech grad student who is making a name for himself nationally in long-distance running. The race’s female competitors were topped by Penelope Greene of Noyac, a SUNY Geneseo all-American, who finished seventh over all in the field of 800-plus.

When the back nine holes at the South Fork Country Club were new, and so was kite surfing.

A 22-year-old parking attendant at Sagg Main Beach was flashed, threatened, cajoled, and offered bribes for beach access back in 2000. And more from the Hamptons wars, summertime and otherwise.

Your friendly neighborhood mailbag. Dig in.

No matter how benignly a day begins, being on the water carries inherent risks.

East Hampton Town is poised to make two important land deals in the coming weeks, $20 million for one, $16 million for the other, and they merit a closer look.

Here on the East End, we watch the plants like meteorological instruments: Will they survive this week’s brutal weather?

Clandestine efforts to spread milkweed.

We used to have a much closer relationship with flowers and other flora.

John Steinbeck holds up.

I am not the only one who has noted the frankly unfriendly reception science and scientists are receiving these days, but what is most disturbing is the exodus of young aspiring scientists, the next generation.

The latest report for real estate transactions, Montauk to Southampton Village.

Paid Notice: William James Lester of Westhampton Beach, and originally from Amagansett, died June 19th at the Cannas Hospice Center after a long courageous battle with respiratory illness.

Paid Notice: Debbie died peacefully under hospice care at a facility near her home in West Palm Beach, Fla, on June 3.

Ah, parenthood when your children are grown.

The artist Ted Tyler has sustained careers as an innovative ceramic sculptor and a successful designer and printer of fabrics and wall coverings.

Bay Street Theater's production of "Deceived" is a new adaptation of "Gaslight," the play and movie about a husband trying to drive his wife crazy in order to steal from her.

Michele Gerber Klein will be at LongHouse to talk about and sign copies of her new book about Gala Dali, wife of the painter Salvador Dali and ambassador of the Surrealist movement.