An ongoing review of the Wainscott School District's tuition payments for special-education services received by some of its students from the Sag Harbor School District has yielded $23,000 in savings for Wainscott from the 2021-22 school year.

Another late-night car accident has rattled residents of Hampton Street (Route 114) in Sag Harbor. Early Saturday morning, near a curve in the road at Division Street, an 18-year-old was charged with driving while intoxicated after flipping his car onto another that was parked in its owners' driveway. The incident echoed several other crashes in the same vicinity. 

A teenage get-together Sunday night on Arbor Path wasn't what a mother signed up for when she gave her two daughters permission to have some friends over. She returned from a night out to a house full of juveniles who wouldn't leave.

Regular East Hampton Town beachgoers may notice a big change this week: the closure of many lifeguard stands.

Leandre Hadden of Philadelphia was fishing last week for porgies and sea bass off Block Island, on the Fin Chaser party boat out of Star Island Yacht Club, Montauk, when he discovered $970 had gone missing from his person.

Ripped from the somewhat exciting pages of old issues of The Star . . .

Laney Ettel of Virginia Beach was having dinner Friday night at Gurney's Star Island Resort in Montauk when, she told police, her purse went missing.

Marlene Julie Pabon of the Bronx, 40, was charged on the morning of Aug. 16 with menacing a police officer after she allegedly brandished an eight-inch folding knife at him.

Among arrests in town last week was one in Montauk involving an East Hampton Town traffic control officer.

From Montauk to Southampton Village, recent real estate transactions.

Four men were charged with driving while intoxicated on local roads over the past weekend.

An unlicensed 16-year-old from Montauk was eastbound on Montauk Highway in Amagansett just before midnight on Sunday when, she later told East Hampton Town police, she felt a pain in her head and either passed out or fell asleep at the wheel.

From culture on the East End hanging in there to praise for a power highway walker, here's some welcome positivity.

There is no end to the big ideas for high-profile locations.

There was no way we were going to let news of a giant metallic sculpture of a bull in Herrick Park go without comment.

Alaska's crabs have gone missing and climate change is the prime suspect.

As August rolls to a leisurely close, a minor mystery has returned to my neighborhood: the Cranberry Hole Road banana bandit is back after a long absence. 

And now for the budget portion of our Italian vacation.

Shades of Jimmy Carter, the part of my hair suddenly switched sides.

I must say, in retrospect, that if the coronavirus were still raging, Authors Night would have been a good place to catch it.