There were 859 takeoffs and landings at East Hampton Airport over Independence Day weekend, the highest total since 2019.

There’s good and not-so-good news for commercial and recreational shellfishermen in the updated rules governing shellfish-season openings and closures in East Hampton Town waters.

East Hampton Town is asking residents to weigh in on the new senior citizens center to be constructed at 403 Abraham’s Path in Amagansett, with results to inform the design of the center and the programs offered there.

Historical problems with both traffic safety and flooding at a multi-street intersection in Montauk may be alleviated by a redesign and installation of a roundabout.

No Dogs Left Behind, which rescues canines from the illegal dog meat trade in East Asia and works to place them with caring owners, will host a cocktail party and silent auction to raise money for rescue efforts in Ukraine and Hungary Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. at St. Ann’s Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton.

Amid the New York City Health Department’s recommendation that face masks should once again be worn in public indoor settings and crowded outdoor settings due to high transmission levels of Covid-19, the number of new infections and hospitalizations on the South Fork is of growing concern, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby told the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee on Saturday.

In the three and a half weeks since Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, signed off on Covid-19 vaccines for children under 5, there has not been a huge demand, according to Dr. Gail Schonfeld of East End Pediatrics in East Hampton.

Saturday is Celebrate AVIS Day, honoring the Amagansett Village Improvement Society, which was founded in 1921 and is marking its 100th anniversary one year late because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Clamshell Foundation’s Great Bonac Fireworks Show is set to go off over Three Mile Harbor on Saturday night at 9:30, with Fireworks by Grucci providing the pyrotechnics.

Devon Luckey, a daughter of Joanne and Thomas Luckey of Wantagh and Montauk, was married to Jaime Daniel Alava on June 25 at the Montauk Lake Club.

Evan Thomas Lightcap and Lauren Elizabeth Sanford of Cleveland were married on April 30 at the Penny Lane Ranch in Sky Valley, Calif.

Sag Harbor School District voters will have a chance on Sept. 29 to weigh in on a proposed $13.5 million renovation and upgrade of Mashashimuet Park.

Among this week's lineup of fun for kids and teens: art and nature exploration at SoFo, music and dance, and a moon-themed story time session for all ages.

East Hampton Village officials called police on July 5 to report litter scattered along Buell Lane between Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church and the library — cups, water bottles, and other detritus. A caterer was initially suspected, but was eventually vindicated. Public Works employees came by to clean up the mess.

One hit-and-run collision was among this week's traffic accidents in Springs, East Hampton, and Montauk.

A confrontation over a parking spot at the Meadow Street lot in Sag Harbor led last Thursday to the arrest of an East Hampton woman.

Three men from away and two residents were charged over the past week with driving while intoxicated.

A handful of recent shark attacks and sightings on Long Island's barrier beaches has beachgoers on edge and officials responding with red-flag beach warnings and enhanced shark patrols — but don't blame the sharks, said Greg Metzger of the South Fork Natural History Museum. They aren't here to feast on humans but on the vast schools of menhaden, or bunker, that have settled in for their annual summer residencies. 

This photograph shows the Clan Galbraith, a Norwegian four-masted steel bark, after it ran aground near Flying Point Beach in Water Mill.

Jason Spielberg, a former East Hampton resident and landscape business owner here, died on July 9 at Thompson Health Center in Canandaigua, N.Y., of respiratory failure resulting from pneumonia.