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.

A man who was charged on Feb. 17 with with criminal mischief with intent to damage property, a misdemeanor, after a police officer reported witnessing him kick the passenger-side front door panel of a 2006 Toyota Highlander, shattering the window, faces second more serious charge for his alleged actions afterward.

This photograph, taken in the spring of 1900 at Second House, shows Ulysses Tillinghast Payne with his wife, Nellie, and their children, Betsy, Edward, Elias, and Mildred. Built in 1746, Second House is the oldest structure in Montauk.

In a tribute to Ukraine, a sharp reminder of the importance of knowing the past and how that knowledge can give us a better understanding of the present.

The visually pleasant change in the Reutershan Lot is not without a significant public safety risk.

Recognizing the pressure of a rapidly heating planet, change may be coming, in East Hampton Town, at least.

Big birds of prey seem to be all around, and my perch in the dunes off Cranberry Hole Road is a decent enough place to see them.

We feel that March is the true start of the year, just as it’s obvious that February is the year’s gruesome and grizzled end.

The challenges of a nightly reading habit.

The benefits of bilingual education, especially on Long Island, are obvious.

How divided is our country? Our medical community? We can’t even agree on what a fever is.

The march of the L.L.C.s continues with a $17 million buy on North Haven, among others.

An ill-fated bakery wagon in Montauk in 1897, the Maidstone Club's Howard B. Dean's 1947 Spring Party wingding at the Waldorf, and the plight of the Beales in the early 1970s.

From criticism of “Ask the Mayor” to praise for a new birding column, readers have their say.

Ronald Patrick Balcuns of Springs, a master builder and carpenter, died on Feb. 20 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.