The Sag Harbor School Board on Monday adopted a $45.99-million spending plan that will be put up for a community vote on May 17. The proposal is unchanged from the last time it was discussed, on March 21, with one notable exception: New York State’s governor and Legislature have reached an agreement on their own budget, which will lead to more state money for Sag Harbor.

Near sunset on Friday, an erratic driver was reported near a Laura’s Lane house in Springs. Police found a blue and white Mustang near the pavilion at Maidstone Park and let the driver know he’d been seen driving well over the speed limit. The man said he’d observe the limit going forward and was waved on.

Looking out his side-view mirror, a driver of a cement truck watched in horror as the cement drum broke off the bed of the vehicle, which then overturned.

A loud crash shortly after midnight on Sunday alerted a Sag Harbor Village police officer on routine traffic patrol at Hampton Street that something was awry.

Here’s the buzz out of Bridgehampton High School this week: Ayanna El has been named its 2022 valedictorian and Grace Turza its salutatorian.

The Sag Harbor School District introduced a full-day prekindergarten program for the first time this year, receiving a glowing report card this week from school board members, educators, administrators, and parents.

Shortly before the school board voted to hire Kathy Masterson as its new athletic director, Joe Vas, East Hampton’s current athletic director, handed her a maroon-and-gray Bonac baseball cap — a symbolic passing of the torch.

Shortly before the school board voted to hire Kathy Masterson as its new athletic director, Joe Vas, East Hampton’s current athletic director, handed her a maroon-and-gray Bonac baseball cap — a symbolic passing of the torch.

A deep dive into expenses and revenues over the last four months culminated Tuesday night in the East Hampton School Board’s adoption of a $76.5-million budget plan for the 2022-23 school year.

At precisely the moment last Thursday when the United States Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, about 45 female students from nine East End high schools were gathered in the cafeteria of the Stony Brook University Southampton campus to learn about the roles of female elected officials in politics.

East Hampton High School has a track record of taking proactive steps to protect the health of its students, addressing topics such as vaping and mental wellbeing in recent years. Now, with administrators reporting more and more students struggling with substance abuse and addiction to electronic devices, they are again tackling difficult thorny issues with openness and the help of experts.

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton has lined up some seasonal outdoor activities for kids and teens next week, plus a big celebration of Earth Day.

Lots of sunshine is in the forecast for the weekend, making it a great time to take a hike.

This cyanotype shows Grace Binney Winkley Wilson (1862-1952), who spent summers in East Hampton between 1891 and 1895, posing with a racket on a grass court, a tennis net directly behind her.

John Q. Trojanowski, a renowned neuropathologist and director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, died of complications of chronic spinal cord injuries on Feb. 8 in Philadelphia. A former summertime renter in Springs, he was 75.

Marisa Jordan Hansell of Lazy Point, Amagansett, a mental health therapist, died of bilateral pulmonary embolism in New York City on March 24. She was 57.

Richard Janis of East Hampton, most recently the dockmaster at the Montauk Lake Club and Marina, died unexpectedly at home on April 6. He was 66.

Richard Hugh Ketcham, who moved to East Hampton after retiring from a 30-year career with IBM in 1985, died on March 19 at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunkirk, N.Y. He was 91.

James M. Lowney, who had worked at Dreesen’s, Sam’s restaurant, Reed’s Photo, and the Maidstone Club, moved from East Hampton to Lancaster, S.C., in December. He died there on March 23 at the age of 60.

Maureen K. Murphy of Montauk, a professor and former chairwoman and executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority, died at home on March 30 after a long illness. She was 84.