Amid the East Hampton Town Board’s planning to shift East Hampton Airport to a restricted, “private-use” facility, some residents concerned about diversion of aircraft to other parts of the town have focused their attention on a helipad at the Bistrian Materials supply yard on Springs-Fireplace Road.

There is a new candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to represent New York’s First Congressional District, a consequence of the recent redrawing of the state’s Congressional districts that followed the decennial census.

The Southampton and Brookhaven Town Democratic Committees will co-host a virtual forum featuring the Democratic candidates to represent New York’s First Congressional District on Thursday at 7 p.m. via Zoom video conference.

Edwin Livingston Sherrill Jr., a descendant of one of East Hampton’s early families and a member of the East Hampton Village Board for many years, died on Jan. 19 in Charleston, S.C. He was 99.

Vincent Elias Grimes, “the oldest living person born in Montauk,” died on Sunday at home at the age of 93.

The white-throated sparrow’s song “is a lament,” George Gladden wrote, “a lament which is wistful and ineffably plaintive, but in which there is no despair, only sweet hopefulness.”

The Pierson Whalers and Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees met in the Suffolk County tournament’s C-D game Saturday at Sachem East High School in Farmingville, with Pierson, as expected, winning by a wide margin.

At Amagansett’s Sportime Arena, three indoor soccer championship games were played Saturday, with F.C. Napoli, in the men’s open division, the East Hampton Futbol Club, in the women’s division, and Fenix Club, in the men’s 37-plus division, emerging as the trophy winners.

The Shelter Island Library is offering a chance for poets to win some recognition and $1,000.

A new one from our man in Springs.

What to do about the increasing number of historic properties the town now owns.

All the ethical quandaries of a Henry James novel transposed to Gardiner’s Island? Read on.

Good news for the environment: Blackstone is concerned about the long term in the extraction industries.

The East Hampton Town Board withers in the face of lawsuits from pilots and the air-transportation industry, and a letter from the F.A.A.

Tom Edmonds of the Southampton History Museum and Victoria Berger of the Suffolk County Historical Society have been suspended for featuring Ku Klux Klan-related material and programming.

Thoughts from the Grand Velas resort on whether there are two kinds of people in this world: package-vacation people and independent-travel people.

The weirdness of the Beijing Winter Olympics was perfectly mirrored by the intricacies and dead zones of NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

Yes, Virginia, you can always improve.

Mounting evidence suggests that nature enhances children’s development in important ways.

From a sizable commercial sale in East Hampton Village to a residential one of nearly $11 million in Amagansett, this is your week in Hamptons real estate.