It was a light week on the roads for officers, with a single drunken-driving arrest — in Montauk — among the East Hampton Town, Village, and Sag Harbor police.

Early Saturday morning, police pulled over a suspected drunken driver in a white Dodge sedan that had been seen speeding through the village. Police followed and stopped the car on Springs-Fireplace Road. The driver, a 21-year-old Riverhead man, told police he was “late to work and may have been driving a little fast.”

A Colorado missing persons case has resulted in a suspected murder arrest for a man whom police found staying at the Sag Harbor Inn. The victim, Masany Cruz, was 29.

East Hampton Village's chief lifeguard reported to the village board on Friday on the lifesaving efforts at beaches this summer. There were 179 rescues and no deaths.

It would be a mistake to think of this highly readable book as a Holocaust memoir. Rather it is a prominent American physician’s synthesis of some 80 years of a courageous life.

With the passage of new property maintenance rules on Friday, East Hampton Village landowners will now have to pay extra attention to litter, tree and shrub trimmings, stagnant water, and weeds that extend beyond their property lines.

A photo from the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection shows a group of people dressed in theatrical costumes outside the Moran family’s home and studio in East Hampton circa 1889.

A poem for a warm autumn that has kept the roses blooming.

Willard A. Mahar, a former heavy equipment operator for the Bistrian Gravel Corporation, died of cancer at home in Amagansett on Friday. The Amagansett native was 91 and had been ill for about two years.

Zach Cohen, a Springs resident who became a dedicated, unelected participant in East Hampton Town government, died on Oct. 7 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 72 and had been ill with glioblastoma for over two years.

William Pickens III, a retired corporate executive and former national director of the N.A.A.C.P., who eventually ran the consulting firm Bill Pickens Associates, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Sept. 27. He was 85.

Early voting begins Saturday, and with it the direction of East Hampton Town government comes into play.

Early voting begins on Saturday, and Rick Drew’s name will appear on the Independence Party ballot line. He deserves a close look.

Sadly for those who want quick noise relief from East Hampton Airport, a majority of the town board does not appear eager to make any changes right away.

It was a proud father moment for me watching the East Hampton Village Board meeting two weeks ago.

We have entered red-pickup season.

Best diner ever.

We should see our history whole, not just cherry-pick the good parts.

Because I can physically see the work getting done as I rake, I view things with a beneficence I can’t summon in life’s more static moments.

Thomas Crouch and Jameson McWilliams, who until recently were assistant attorneys in the East Hampton Town attorney’s office, have announced the opening of the Crouch McWilliams Law Group on Pantigo Road.