The life of a New York cinephile who for a half-century was a major player in movie theaters and distribution.

After putting its seaplane service from New York City to Sag Harbor on hold last week, the helicopter and seaplane company Blade Air Mobility resumed service to Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

A microscopic wormlike creature is rapidly killing American and European beech trees on the East End, and there is not much to be done about it. Beech leaf disease appears to have started in the United States in Ohio sometime before 2012. By 2019, it was on Long Island.

East Hampton's first annual Pride parade took place on Saturday and it was a joyous, color-popping celebration of freedom and equality that attracted members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, their allies, clergy, local politicians, storekeepers, well-wishers, the young, the old, and the curious.

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of 10 bills aimed at reducing gun violence on Monday. Her key challenger, Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District, said at a campaign event last month that a raft of laws regulating possession of guns should be overturned.

By all accounts, the highly savored scallop is very much imperiled. But can the popular bivalve, which lives for upward of 22 months, be saved?

Saturday is Dragonfly Day in New York State, and Southampton Town, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and the New York League of Conservation Voters are marking the occasion by sponsoring Dragonfly Day and Green Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.

Supporters of the campaign to transform the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s Sag Harbor waterfront property into a writers’ retreat got some good news last week: Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has nominated the project to receive a state grant of $500,000 toward its purchase.

The East Hampton Town Board voted to allow for adjudication of code violations by an administrative bureau established last year to expedite the processing of minor violations. The town is seeking a director for the bureau, a prerequisite for putting it into effect.

There were 533 takeoffs and landings at East Hampton Town Airport — and 1,265 complaints about them made to just one of the two systems to register such complaints — between May 26 and May 30.

The Pollock-Krasner House, East Hampton Village, the Montauk Anglers Club and Marina, and Concerned Citizens of Montauk were chosen from a larger pool of candidates to receive money from East Hampton Town.

Legislation to increase and protect access to water supply, sponsored by State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr., has been approved by both the Assembly and the Senate, and is awaiting the governor’s signature.

When DanceHampton embarks on its annual recital and competition showcase this weekend, Kelly Hren will celebrate two milestones: the 15th anniversary of her East Hampton dance studio and the graduation of her daughter, Emma Hren, the studio’s only senior, who has been dancing there since its inception.

This week's activities for kids and teens include a virtual visit with Carl Hiaasen, an award-winning YA author, as well as dance shows, games, Fathers Day crafts, and a "Big Bubble Bonanza."

On Memorial Day, “pool jumpers” hit an Amagansett property. A woman was returning home after a day at the beach when she saw three men and two women leaving her backyard, dripping wet. One of the men told her husband he had “always admired” their house before they all walked off.

A driver in a "newer style" Range Rover fled the scene of an accident last Thursday afternoon in Amagansett.

Joseph Francis Early of East Hampton, who died in his sleep on May 13, “touched many people in his short time on earth,” wrote his sister, Vicky Dominski of Sag Harbor. He was 58.

Constance Miller Hoagland of East Hampton Village had a successful career in Greenwich, Conn., as a real estate broker, but many here will remember her from the Monogram Shop on Newtown Lane. She died at home on May 30.

Donna M. Zingarelli, who in 1976 opened Michael’s Restaurant in Maidstone Park with her first husband, died on June 3 at the Westhampton Care Center of complications from a 2020 stroke. She was 77.

The Parrish Art Museum board has chosen Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, who was educated in Spain and Mexico, and most recently ran an art museum at Michigan State University. She will take the place of Kelly Taxter, who resigned in December after less than a year on the job.