Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District was named the Republican candidate for governor of New York at the State Republican Party’s convention, held in Garden City on Monday and Tuesday.

Unity was the theme at last Thursday’s forum for those seeking the Democratic Party’s nomination for New York’s First Congressional District, at a moment of both opportunity and peril for the party.

The Suffolk County Republican Party has endorsed Nick LaLota, chief of staff of the County Legislature’s presiding officer and a former commissioner at the Suffolk Board of Elections, as its nominee to represent New York’s First Congressional District in Washington, D.C. The move, coming right on the heels of Mr. LaLota’s announcing his candidacy, drew a rebuke from another contestant for the seat.

uffolk County Legislator Al Krupski, who represents the Towns of Southold and Riverhead and parts of Brookhaven Town, has endorsed Legislator Bridget Fleming’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination to represent New York’s First Congressional District.

A complaint brought by Citizens for the Preservation of Wainscott against the East Hampton Town Board and developers of the South Fork Wind farm has been dismissed.

The federal Department of the Interior announced on Friday the results of the New York Bight offshore wind sale, the nation’s highest-grossing competitive offshore energy lease sale in history.

Construction relating to the South Fork Wind farm continues in Wainscott this week with trenching and installation of conduit on Beach Lane and on Wainscott Northwest Road between the Long Island Rail Road intersection and Montauk Highway.

Pigeons are extremely sensitive to low frequency sounds; they can see into the ultraviolet range of light, and they are able to detect minute changes in air pressure. They don’t keep the tidiest of homes, allowing feces, and even dead nestlings, to remain in the nest, and since they reuse their nests, they get bigger and nastier as time goes on.

Christy Davis, the legendary 69-year-old Mavericks surfer and onetime East Hampton High science teacher, is the subject of a documentary film that recounts the heart attack he suffered at the notorious break in 2019 and his collision almost a year earlier with an underwater rock that resulted in a broken neck bone and two broken upper spinal vertebrae.

At the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter Sunday there are to be testing and training sessions for new and returning junior lifeguards, Nippers, and still-water and ocean lifeguards.

Face coverings in most South Fork schools are now optional. School districts from Montauk to Southampton confirmed that as of Wednesday masks will no longer be mandatory for students, teachers, administrators, or staff. The mask rollback extends to school buses as well.

Sag Harbor’s Eve Achuthan-Kozar will be among the stars in a high-stress, cutthroat TV cooking competition, part of the storied “MasterChef” franchise, in which the often-terrifying celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay plays host, judge, and tyrant, but in this case, all the contestants are between the ages of 8 and 13.

It’s showtime this weekend at East Hampton High School. “Footloose,” the dance-centric musical based on the 1984 film of the same name, will be staged in the high school auditorium, with performances open to the public.

A new semester of performing arts classes with Our Fabulous Variety Show, puppetry at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and adventures with the South Fork Natural History Museum are on tap for kids and teens in the coming week.

A tiny chapel now used as a fitness center at the East Hampton Point resort occupied an important place for three interrelated East Hampton communities — Indigenous, Black, and white — from the late 1800s until the 20th century. In this, it is one of the rare functionally integrated houses of worship on Long Island — and rarer still that the building endures.

For most people, the news out of Ukraine is horrible, but it’s just news. However, there are plenty of local residents who have direct ties to the beleaguered nation, people who are watching the slow-motion, 40-mile-long convoy of future death tear a hole through a country that their mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers still live in.

Nearly a million refugees have already left Ukraine. They often left quickly and took only what they could easily carry. According to the British Broadcasting Corporation, the European Union expects anywhere from three to six million more to flee. Many local schools, churches, and government offices are putting donation programs together to help the people in Ukraine.

Early last month the Center for Therapeutic Riding of the East End in Bridgehampton threw a retirement party for Pumpkin and Rocket, two of the much loved horses who work there.

A mysterious cord of wood appeared at an East Hampton house on Feb. 17.

A woman attempting to park her 2014 black Toyota S.U.V. at the Oakview Highway trailer park in East Hampton on Feb. 20 collided with a 2016 Toyota S.U.V., and instead of stopping, police later reported, she finished her turn, causing damage to the driver’s side of the Toyota. Realizing her error, she tried to back out of the spot, and hit a 2016 BMW, damaging its passenger side.