The installation of the temporary “cell on wheels” that is to be sited on Gann Road in Springs until a permanent emergency communications tower is designed and constructed elsewhere in the hamlet has been delayed because of “supply chain issues,” the East Hampton Town Board was told on Tuesday.

East Hampton Town’s Water Quality Technical Advisory Committee recommended to the town board on Tuesday the funding of five projects with $545,543 from the portion of the community preservation fund allocated to water quality improvements.

A ceremonial groundbreaking and donor appreciation event for Stony Brook University Hospital’s new emergency center on Saturday celebrated the raising of $38 million to date toward the center’s construction, which is expected to be complete in 2023.

A spring-themed party, "High School Musical Jr.," Comic Book Day, and more for kids and teens.

Meet the Candidates

On Wednesday at 7:30, the Noyac Civic Council will host a virtual Meet the Candidates night to give community members a chance to get to know the four people seeking seats on the Sag Harbor School Board.

Construction is under way at 106 Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, where a new retail store, office space, and two-bedroom apartment are planned on the site of the former East Hampton Cleaners, which closed at the end of 2018.

The East Hampton Star won awards for its East magazine and coverage of education in the New York Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Contest, and its deputy managing editor, Christine Sampson, took third place in the writer of the year category.

This postcard from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows the Ruger Donoho House at 48 Egypt Lane in East Hampton, later sold, one Impressionist painter to another, to Childe Hassam.

A glider flying too low over the beach led police to search areas near Napeague Lane, Atlantic Avenue, and Indian Wells on the morning of April 25, but the glider was not found.

Summing up his department’s just-released report on police activity in 2021, East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo sounded justifiably content. “Some of the national trends in both personal crime and property crime that seem to have been spiking have not impacted us here," he said. "We’ve trended down in almost every criminal defense category over the last few years."

After an officer clocked his Jeep going 51 miles per hour in a 30 m.p.h. zone in Northwest and noticed a strong smell of alcohol, an East Hampton man ended up spending the night at police headquarters before being arraigned the next morning on drunken-driving charges.

Iris S. Osborn, who went from legal secretary to farmer’s wife, died in her sleep at home in Wainscott at the age of 87. The cause was cardiorespiratory failure; she had been in declining health for six months.

Dwayne A. Denton, a decorated volunteer firefighter who served the Amagansett Fire Department for 33 years, died at home of cardiac arrest on April 8. He had been ill for about a month with lung cancer. He was 61.

Theresa Frood, who lived in East Hampton from 1949 to 2000, died after a short illness on Easter Sunday in North Carolina.

Diane Antell, a former director and former board chairwoman of East Hampton Meals on Wheels, died at home last Thursday. The cause was respiratory failure.

A memorial service for Gregg J. Veltri of Montauk, who died on Feb. 27, will take place on May 14 at 11 a.m. at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett.

Dennis Patrick Longwell of Sag Harbor, a writer and curator, died at home on April 24 of complications of Parkinson’s disease. He was 83.

Visiting hours for Jo-ann Valcich of Montauk will be held on Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Writing a biography of the couture-sporting, Slavic companion of “the most toxic leader in American history”? Sounds like trouble.

A few weeks ago, Sebastian Gorgone, the gregarious and always welcoming proprietor of Mrs. Sam’s Bait and Tackle in East Hampton, explained to me that the local fishing season will get in high gear only once the daffodils begin to wilt. I had not heard of this local proverb before, and I wondered, was it true?