Moody’s Investors Service has assigned its highest bond rating, Aaa, to East Hampton Town. The town’s finances have earned the top-tier rating continuously since 2017.

An audit of East Hampton Town for the year ending Dec. 31, 2021, found the town in strong fiscal health, a certified public accountant told the town board on Tuesday.

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming, the presumptive Democratic nominee to represent New York’s recently redrawn First Congressional District, has released results of a poll that shows her in a neck-and-neck race with her potential Republican opponent in the Nov. 8 midterm election.

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee will mostly support a proposal to add new stop signs at intersections on Town Line Road, the street that divides the hamlet from neighboring Sagaponack Village.

One side, calling itself the Tri-Community Working Group — the presidents of the three communities along with 14 residents — seeks an overlay district as the best means of preservation for the historically Black communities of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah. The other wants historic designation that would go a step further.

Peter Gundersen, a son of Martha and Peter Gundersen of Amagansett, married Samantha Haney, a California native and daughter of Jane and Keith Haney of Gulf Breeze, Fla., on April 16 in Pensacola, Fla. 

The Sag Harbor School District on Monday publicized more details of its pending agreement with the Mashashimuet Park board of directors, which will play into the $13.5 million bond referendum that is up for a vote on Sept. 29.

The East Hampton Library's free children's fair is a highlight for kids this weekend.

This engaging, relatable photograph shows a group of young adults posed in front of a tent, presumably camping at Montauk.

Just because there is flat water doesn’t mean lifeguards can relax. It was a green-flag day up at Maidstone Park last Thursday when lifeguards needed to call in a Jet Ski for assistance for a father and son who were swimming in the calm waters but got too close to the jetty on an incoming tide, according to John Ryan Jr., chief of the East Hampton Town’s lifeguards.

A woman pulled a 2018 Subaru into the North Main Street I.G.A. lot on Aug. 2 and suddenly realized she was in the wrong vehicle. It was identical to her own Subaru, parked someplace else.

A 21-year-old on a bicycle was struck by a Mercedes-Benz in East Hampton, but had only minor injuries.

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.