Hampton Jazz Fest still in full swing, Wyclef Jean at the Surf Lodge, Lez Zeppelin at the Talkhouse, plus the Sturdy Souls, Winston Irie, and the Bogmen

There is a great new restaurant in town. Il Buco al Mare will undoubtedly be a formidable player for years to come.

Labor Day meals to go from Townline BBQ and Elaia Estiatorio, and a new sushi restaurant coming this fall

Brandi Carlile mixed covers and new music for a thrilled audience at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett Sunday night.

David M. Alpern, a former senior editor at Newsweek and host of radio news programs, will play excerpts from "Newsweek on Air" coverage of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on Wednesday at 6 p.m. over Zoom for the Rogers Memorial Library.

Just a week into the fall sports season, one East Hampton High School football player has tested positive for Covid-19 and is in quarantine, the district announced Sunday morning.

Nurses and other members of the health care workers union at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital picketed on Thursday in an effort to get the hospital to agree to contract demands. The union's current contract ends on Sept. 30.

The Artists beat the Writers 11-9 Saturday in this year's celebrity-fest of a softball game at East Hampton Village's Herrick Park.

There was none of the casual chitchat Friday morning as Tropical Storm Henri gained strength about 700 miles south of Long Island. 

Following a year's hiatus and now with a tropical storm having passed, it is expected that there will be a strong turnout for the 45th edition of the weeklong Hampton Classic, which is to begin Sunday morning.

Pete Barylski and Jim Kinnier are giving serious thought to having a league that will play games on weekends from the week after Labor Day through late October.

It was a winner-take-all showdown at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett on Aug. 17. 

Richard Burns, the longtime superintendent of the East Hampton School District who retired in June, is back in action in a different capacity.

Watching Henri gain strength late last week as it barreled toward Long Island, East Enders braced themselves for a possible direct hit from a Category 1 hurricane late Saturday or early Sunday, but by the time it arrived, its path had shifted to the east and it had been downgraded to a tropical storm, sparing the Twin Forks.

Several outdoor concerts and a movie are coming up over the next few days in Montauk.

The East Hampton Town Trustees on Monday heard from Bob Tymann of South Fork Sea Farmers, which John Dunne, the director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, described as the nonprofit educational arm of the hatchery and the town's community oyster garden program, who proposed an oyster reef in Accabonac Harbor. An effort to establish such a reef, he said, could lead to natural propagation while establishing habitat. 

"Kelp, kelp, and more kelp" is how John Dunne, the director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery, described a request to the town trustees to allow a pilot project that would see 100-foot lines of kelp grown in both Three Mile and Accabonac Harbors this winter.

The East Hampton Town Trustees' Largest Clam Contest, a popular annual event that showcases the trustees' role in town government and the bounty of the town's waterways, will be held once again this year, starting at noon on Oct. 3.

The installation of geotextile bags that are meant to be a short-term measure but have remained long after their permits' expiration is likely to lead to the amendment of East Hampton Town's zoning code with respect to emergency activities permitted under the protection of natural resources.

Georgica Pond has been closed to swimming and the taking of crabs, fish, or other marine life owing to a bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, blue-green algae.