A memorial service for Betty Mazur, a former chairwoman of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee who died last summer, will be held on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at the ocean beach between Clinton Academy Lane and Treasure Island Drive in Amagansett.

Constance Miller Hoagland, a lifelong resident of East Hampton Village, died on Monday at home on Jericho Road. She was 98. A memorial gathering will be held on the Maidstone golf course this summer at a date to be determined.

A woman thrown overboard when her boat exploded Sunday afternoon in the waters off North Haven survived the incident, though the boat did not, according to the New York State Harbormaster and Bay Constable Association.

Someone couldn’t negotiate a turn onto Cedar Street on Friday night and hit the berm, fence, and ultimately the office building at Saskas Surveyor Company. The driver fled, leaving behind parts from a red Ford Mustang.

East Hampton Village police were notified by town cops on Saturday night about an erratic driver who may have been in an accident in Amagansett, and found the man on Main Street near David’s Lane, driving “recklessly.”

A garbage truck, a plumbing van and a pickup truck one day; a pickup and two S.U.V.'s the next.

Here we are again — after each mass shooting, calls resume for stronger gun-control laws. Yet the killing goes on.

East Hampton Town appears about to have the wool pulled over its eyes again in Montauk.

East Hampton Village residents should wonder why precisely it is that the trustees are eager to install a specialized glass playing enclosure for a sport that no one has heard of.

Living where I do down in the dunes past Amagansett, ticks are just part of the scenery.

Is it weird that I think of mortality — transience and permanence — whenever I drive my car on the New Jersey Turnpike?

When your kids start going to the movies without you.

Covid worries and pollen aside, I can think of nowhere else I’d rather be at this time of year.

I satisfied my departed dad’s spirit as Rosanne Cash sang about enshrining her departed dad during a benefit concert at the State Theatre, a plaster palace in Easton, Pa.

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Here is the week in South Fork real estate action.

In 1897, early rumblings of a move toward village incorporation here, and 1972 memories of counting drinks at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton.

I decided to try a few quick drifts for striped bass in Plum Gut last week. The bass, according to reports, have been running in great quantities there.

“We’re a year away, and all of us knew it,” said Kevin McConville, whose East Hampton High School boys tennis team finished the season at 17-2.

The Montauk School’s baseball team, coached by Will Collins, and the Springs School softball team, whose coach is Beth Crowley, finished their seasons undefeated last week.