The East Hampton Library unveiled a new online Long Island Collection research system that includes not only the impressive collection of historical records that the library holds but also an additional 23 collections, including the town and East Hampton Village's historic records and high school yearbooks dating to the 1950s. “I think this is one of the most important projects this library has been involved with,” Dennis Fabiszak, the library's executive director, said.

This etching, one of a number of works titled “The Much Resounding Sea” by the artist Thomas Moran of East Hampton (1837-1926), was completed in 1886, two years after his similar but less detailed oil painting of the same name. The etching is a newer acquisition for the Long Island Collection, bought at auction in May.

Joseph DeCristofaro was just 17 when he enlisted in the Navy in 1943, too young to join up without his parents’ permission but determined to do his part. “I had to get my folks to sign for me,” he said on Friday in his living room in East Hampton. “My father signed; my mother didn’t like it.”

Heidi Limonius, a co-owner of Buckley’s Flower Shop and Garden Center in East Hampton Village for nearly 60 years, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 3. She was 83 and had been ill with Alzheimer’s disease.

Sidney B. Silverman, a longtime resident of Amagansett, died at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan on Nov. 4. A trial lawyer for many years, none of his cases satisfied him more than representing the East Hampton Town Baymen’s Association in its victory over the General Electric Company.

Linda Holmes of East Hampton died at home on Hand’s Creek Road on Oct. 7. The cause was lung cancer, which was first diagnosed three years ago and returned after a period of remission. She was 77.

Joseph John Kristopowitz Jr., a native of Wainscott, settled upstate after attending the Central City Business Institute in Syracuse and loved the auto racing scene there. He died at home in Liverpool, N.Y., on Oct. 22 at the age of 72.

A memorial service for Grace Elizabeth Price, a former librarian at the East Hampton Library who had since moved to Brewster, Mass., will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Christ Episcopal Church in Harwichport, Mass.

Attorneys for oceanfront property owners along what is popularly known as Truck Beach on Napeague have convinced a New York State Supreme Court judge to move the trespassing violations of 14 East Hampton Town residents from the town justice court to the Suffolk County Supreme Court.

Current operations at East Hampton Airport and spending by passengers to and from it generate between $19 million and $25 million in economic output and account for 170 to 260 full-time equivalent jobs for the town, but passenger spending represents just 2 to 3 percent of taxable sales in the town, consultants told the East Hampton Town Board.

East Hampton Town’s preliminary 2022 budget is $85.49 million, a slight increase over the tentative budget unveiled last month that reflects Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc’s proposal to regrade 115 town employees, with commensurate wage increases averaging 5 percent.

Two weeks after a tense debate and vote to allow an 80-foot dock in Three Mile Harbor, the East Hampton Town Trustees moved toward enacting a moratorium on the construction of docks and floating structures in all waters under their jurisdiction while they develop a policy on them.

A proposal to use nearly $2.6 million of community preservation fund money to purchase a .2-acre parcel on Muchmore Lane, a small lot adjacent to Herrick Park in East Hampton Village, drew questions and skepticism from two residents during a public hearing last Thursday.

Democrats in East Hampton Town bucked the wider trend on Long Island and beyond on Election Day, maintaining a lock on elected offices by winning large majorities in an election marked by light turnout.

Democrats in East Hampton Town bucked the wider trend on Long Island and beyond on Election Day, maintaining a lock on elected offices by winning large majorities in an election marked by light turnout.

The rate of Covid-19 infection has slowly declined at testing sites in East Hampton Town in recent weeks, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said on Tuesday.

The positive infection rate among those tested between Oct. 16 and Oct. 23 was 5.88 percent, Mr. Van Scoyoc said. The rate between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30 was 4.94 percent, and between Nov. 1 and Nov. 7 it was 3.85 percent.

Consultants to East Hampton Town have proposed a two-phase plan for implementation of the recommendations contained in the Wainscott hamlet study that was approved and adopted in East Hampton Town’s comprehensive plan in May 2020.

Lacking a valid driver’s license, car registration, inspection sticker, or insurance card can get a driver into trouble, as evidenced by two arrests in Sag Harbor this week.

Dirt bikers have been illegally building a track, jumps, and wooden platforms off an established nature trail at the Soak Hides Dreen, according to a Rivers Road resident who called police on Oct. 25. The bikers are usually there around 3 p.m., the resident said. Officers were given photos as evidence.

East Hampton High’s golf and boys cross-country teams may have been runners-up last week in county competition, but each will send at least one athlete to state meets.