The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to adopt an affordable housing overlay district off Route 114 in the Wainscott School District, just outside of Sag Harbor. It also set hearing dates for a pilot outdoor dining program, and on amending the town code with respect to the “new” publicly owned, private-use airport planned to open on May 19 after the town deactivates East Hampton Airport in its current form.

As thousands of young people rallied at Citi Field last week against Florida's Parental Rights in Education bill, which, among other things, prohibits discussions of L.G.B.T.Q.+ identities and issues in kindergarten, first, second, and third-grade classrooms, the Bridgehampton School’s Genders and Sexualities Alliance group staged its own rally on the school’s front lawn.

Provided that Sag Harbor voters agree, the athletic facilities at Mashashimuet Park will be considerably upgraded following several months of joint discussions between Sag school officials and the board of the nonprofit park.

As they struggle to build a 2022-23 budget that stays within New York State’s cap on tax-levy increases, Springs School District administrators said they have now zeroed out their earlier drafts and started over.

For parents and high school students, there's an online program Wednesday on how Covid has changed the college admissions landscape. Also this week for younger kids: programs on native frogs, STEM workshops, arts and crafts, story times, and more, much of it free.

Teenagers were caught aggressively driving the free-ride vehicles on Lumber Lane in East Hampton Village on the afternoon of March 14, and then walking away from the vehicles, one of which may have crashed into another. Police found no damage to the vehicles, but warned the youths to stay away from them.

A Kingston, N.Y., woman was westbound on Old Montauk Highway in Montauk around dinnertime on March 13, when, according to the police report, she drove off the road and hit a street sign. The sign was not enough to stop her 2010 Subaru, which continued through dense brush, then across the Lincoln Road turnoff, and then into an adjacent wooded lot, before being stopped by a tree.

After a man fell asleep at the wheel on Route 27 near the overlook in Montauk, his pickup truck crossed the oncoming lane and hit a guard rail just west of Beech Street.

A man from Riverhead ended up with an appearance ticket when a traffic stop in Montauk revealed that pickup truck was missing the interlock device with which it should have been equipped.

For the third year, the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton is welcoming applications from East End nonprofit groups, grassroots organizations, and national organizations with East End offices for cash grants.

A motorcycle accident on Accabonac Road in East Hampton Wednesday evening claimed the life of Jefferson D. Eames, 53, of Springs. 

Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner, an executive for the Estee Lauder Companies and a philanthropist who supported programs in New York City and Sag Harbor, died in Manhattan on Feb. 26. She was 92.

Lawrence B. Knowles of East Hampton, known for his years working at Stuart’s Seafood in Amagansett and the Seafood Shop in Wainscott, died of congestive heart failure on March 6 at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. He was 90.

Patricia Clarke Topping, who founded Swan Creek Farms in Bridgehampton with her husband, Alvin Topping, died of lung cancer on March 14. She was 76.

As Long Island Collection staffers were digitizing East Hampton High School’s Bonac Beachcomber newspaper, we had some laughs over the Nov. 19, 1947, issue, which covered the junior prom.

With plans in the works for bathrooms at the beach, the East Hampton Village Board is mulling where to put them and hammering out the fine details.

Spring comes to Mrs. Payne’s yard 125 years ago, Miss Alice White has a party on Main Street for St. Patrick’s Day, 1922, and in 1972 Montauk saw a Save Our Stripers movement.

Our hearts break for the Ukrainian people, as bombs and missiles continue to wreck their cities, and we fear that the worst days may still be ahead.

Live-streamed local government and school board meetings are here to stay.

The East Hampton Town Trustees are making the right move in joining a group of fishermen suing to preserve their access to a 4,000-foot-long portion of ocean beach.