John Tusa of East Hampton, who had worked as a community advocate and activist for most of his professional career, including many years as an addiction therapist at the Family Service League here, died in Southampton last Thursday at the age of 91. 

East Hampton capped a three-game sweep of Hauppauge with a 3-1 win here on Sunday afternoon in a game that had been twice-postponed because of the damp, dreary weather.

This week, the Bridgehampton School varsity baseball team will rally around Michael DeRosa, the school’s athletic director and gym teacher as well as a coach of the Killer Bees baseball team. DeRosa underwent emergency surgery last week to remove a cancerous tumor in his brain.

The latest on Bonac softball, boys and girls track, flag football, lacrosse, swimming, and boys tennis.

The week ahead in local action on the fields, courts, and track.

Iceboating awards, facing the best of UpIsland lacrosse, and the day youth swimming came to the RECenter.

Wildfires abounded in 1900 and 1925, and in 2000 a blaze took the estate-section home of Chevy Chase’s parents.

People are agitated, and there is much to discuss . . .

The East Hampton Town Planning Board made the right move recently by demanding additional study of a planned 50-unit industrial park in Wainscott.

A “Minecraft” movie might sound unwatchable, but the phenomenon of teenage audience participation it has spurred is most welcome.

What happens to our data when a company changes hands is just one of many good questions in this age of digital Big Brother. Too bad public indifference is so widespread.

I have always been a do-it-yourselfer, even about food.

Pondering this week where I’d stash my cash, apropos of the possibly pending global financial collapse, the strategy of parking money in companies that manufacture small indulgences seems about right.

The mysterious pull of a struggling Southern Tier downtown and its one-of-a-kind hotel.

For 30 years my life and my brother’s did not cross, despite good reasons to reconnect. And then it all changed.

New property transactions, Montauk to Southampton Village.

Guild Hall's summer standouts include Tiler Peck of the New York City Ballet, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Dance Theater of Harlem, Neil deGrasse Tyson, G.E. Smith, Candace Bushnell, and so much more.

The Masonic Temple will welcome walk-in musicians for a jam on Thursday and a magician from New York City on Friday.

Keyes Art will showcase a performance by Claude Lawrence, an artist and sax player, and an exhibition of paintings by Mark Heming.

The love story in Jessica Soffer’s “This Is a Love Story” belongs to Abe and Jane, but it loops in their art dealer son, Abe’s female former student, and, for good measure, Central Park.