When East Hampton Airport reopens on May 19 with a new, private status, landing fees may at least double for most types of aircraft, according to a proposal unveiled this week during a town board work session.

Police said they have arrested four people following a brazen middle-of-the-day theft last Thursday from a shop on Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village, during which nearly 50 designer handbags and accessories, together valued at $91,600, were stolen. The robbery took less than 30 seconds from start to finish, police said. A fifth suspect remained at large.

East Hampton Town police were tipped off about a possible drunken driver last Thursday evening and ended up arresting a man who was driving at an excessively low speed.

Jackson Street in East Hampton figured in two accidents this week, one by its intersection with Springs-Fireplace Road, the other near its intersection with Three Mile Harbor Road.

A disgruntled employee who had just quit his job at Schiavoni’s on Main Street in Sag Harbor was charged with petty larceny on March 2 after he allegedly stole from the store.

An East Hampton woman wanted a Maltipoo puppy, and found a website selling them. After receiving many photos, she chose a dog, paid $895, and was supposed to receive it the puppy next day. But shortly after sending the money through Apple Pay, she realized it was a scam.

The Sag Harbor School District's superintendent, Jeff Nichols, outlined the school’s new Covid-19 protocols relating to contact tracing, close contacts, and "even students returning to school if they test positive."

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill has continued its longtime tradition of celebrating student artists with the annual Student Exhibition officially opening Sunday.

A teen writing competition, a search for the woolly bear caterpillar, and an introduction to ducks are among the things on tap for young people this week.

Bridgehampton High School’s young boys basketball players fought to the end against their taller Chapel Field Christian School counterparts in a state regional semifinal game at Westhampton Beach Tuesday, losing 56-47.

The all-day Katy’s Courage fund-raiser for pediatric cancer research will begin Saturday with a kids and parents hockey game at the Buckskill Winter Club, where popular curling lessons are also now available.

With things finally getting back to normal Covid-wise, Bonac’s baseball, softball, boys tennis, boys and girls track, and boys and girls lacrosse teams are to begin practicing Monday.

While the great blue heron, the largest heron in North America, is not our only winter heron (black-crowned night herons roost locally all winter), it’s the only one you’re likely to see.

The account books of the Amagansett Mill Company, kept by John Baker from 1829 through 1841, are featured this week.

Tony Walton, who worked for more than six decades in theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, died at his apartment in New York City on March 2 of complications of a stroke. He was 87.

E. Vincent Wyatt Jr., an expert in industrial production and engineering materials who held several patents and who grew up in East Hampton, died of a heart attack on March 2 at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Massachusetts. He was 92.

Harold Foster of Foster and Briand Construction died of lung cancer on March 1 at home in Montauk.

Evelyn Spiegler made a career as a fund-raiser in the nonprofit sector in international relations and the health care field, and after her retirement from New York University Medical Center in 1995 divided her time between Montauk and Forest Hills, Queens, where she died on Saturday.

John R. DiPace, retired from the New York City Department of Sanitation and the trucking company he owned in the Bronx, went on to become a masseur at Gurney's Inn in Montauk. He died of metastasized bone cancer at home in East Hampton on March 3.

John Allan Diamond, who ran his father’s business, Diamond’s furniture store on Main Street in East Hampton, until 1995, died on March 2 at home in East Hampton. He was 70 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.