This photograph shows members of Dayton Hedges’s (1884-1957) family attending a tea ceremony on Aug. 21, 1953, in the East Hampton Library’s courtyard as part of the dedication of the library’s Hedges Room.

Andrew Volet, a fashion-industry executive turned East Hampton real estate agent who lived on Accabonac Road, died on June 19 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. The cause was cancer. He was 87.

Laurie Nell Frick of Springs, a singer with the Choral Society of the Hamptons, died on June 8 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 79.

Esther Keller, formerly of East Hampton, died of congestive heart failure on June 16 at the Trustbridge Hospice in Delray Beach, Fla., just a few days shy of her 95th birthday.

Judiann Carmack-Fayyaz, who established the Bridgehampton School's agricultural education program, was named New York State's agriculture teacher of the year, and received a national award for excellence from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2016, is retiring from the school after the board voted last month to eliminate her position.

During Monday's meeting of the East Hampton Town Trustees, John Aldred briefed his colleagues on a June 14 count of mosquito larvae in Accabonac Harbor, where a pilot program to sample larvae has led to a reduction in the use of methoprene, a larvicide, by the Suffolk County Department of Public Works’ Division of Vector Control.

Following a Supreme Court ruling that lets states set their own abortion laws, the world's richest and most powerful democracy joined one of the poorest countries in the continental Americas (Nicaragua), the smallest country in Central America (El Salvador), and an ultranationalist Poland to become only the fourth country in the Western world where abortion care is widely banned.

A tale of two teens, a grudge, and a gun reveals a way to address violence in our cities.

A genealogy test answers nagging questions of identity and prompts a deeper search.

Two beloved East End businesses have come together on a collaboration that is sure to be a very chill hit this summer: a specialty cinnamon-doughnut-spiked coffee ice cream, combining Dreesen’s Famous Donuts with John’s Drive-In’s ice cream.

Amanda Green, daughter of a legendary Broadway family and part-timer in Springs, has a hit of her own right now with "Mr. Saturday Night," starring Billy Crystal.

The Springs General Store is the unofficial center of the hamlet, a place where people flock for breakfast on weekends or coffee and camaraderie on weekday mornings, and where children head after school for a bag of candy or three cookies for $3. "For me the biggest gift is that I was able to be an active part of the community in a way that one person cannot always be," said the business's owner, Kristi Hood.

So far this year, Mother Nature has served up a curveball, as bunker showed up on schedule but dispersed rather quickly to parts unknown.

The District 36 Little League playoffs got underway at the Pantigo fields here Saturday morning as East Hampton’s 9-and-10-year-old all-star team, coached by Chris Carney, Scott Abran, and Chris Diamond, overwhelmed Southampton 15-1.

Nine months ago, Jeremy Grosvenor of Sagaponack suffered a dislocated hip while surfing at Camp Hero’s Radars break. He had experienced mishaps while surfing before, but nothing like this.

Throughout July, Colette Dong and Aly Giampolo have set up shop — a rather bouncy shop — at the Topping Rose House in Bridgehampton. The two friends met while performing in a dance company and formed the idea for the Ness, a type of trampoline workout that they describe as “an aerobic form of cross-training.”

An indoor regulation-size N.H.L. hockey rink will be up and running at Riverhead’s Stotzky Park by the fall, Troy Albert of the Peconic Hockey Foundation said last week.

Having observed what has happened to Montauk, members of the East Hampton Town Planning Board may have been extra sensitive to proposed changes to the Springs General Store involving on-premises alcohol consumption.

New York politics is nothing if not the land of the unexpected.

East Hampton Town Hall took a defensive posture after news this week that the private Montauk Airport had been sold to an undisclosed buyer.