In Diane Shoemaker’s business class, Springs students in sixth grade are going outside to garden in the school’s greenhouse. The students are taking care of the garden by planting and watering the beds.

Technology may be helping travelers cut time from their commutes and shave minutes from their vacation trips, but some Sag Harbor Village residents say that same technology is ruining the quality of life in their otherwise quiet neighborhood.

With a strike looming at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday barring a contract agreement, negotiations between the M.T.A. and a coalition of the L.I.R.R. unionized work force were to resume yesterday.  

ReWild Long Island will resume hosting compost tables at the Springs Farmers Market this weekend, with more coming to Amber Waves Farm and the Montauk Community Garden.

East Hampton Village residents will pay a slightly lower tax rate in fiscal year 2027 than in 2026, according to a summary of the tentative budget issued by Marcos Baladron, the village administrator, to Mayor Jerry Larsen and the village board this week. 

This photo from the collection of the Garden Club of East Hampton documents the gardens Anna Gilman Hill designed for her Apaquogue Road estate.

More moves across the South Fork.

Notable in 1976? The town Z.B.A.’s forward-thinking consideration of a windmill overlooking Fort Pond Bay in Montauk. And, as always, other tidbits judiciously culled from our past pages.

It’s primary season and school vote season, and a few readers have thoughts.

Herewith, a list of pleasant things to do in this fair weather before the holiday-weekend hordes arrive.

A bill passed in April and now waiting to be signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul would ban a chemical food additive used to make bagels — and pizza crust — chewy and more stretchable. 

Developers trying to get one over on the town is nothing new, but how a Montauk project of this size got past officials has not been explained.

Despite the depopulation, urban blight, and rats, Baltimore does have a particular and piquant charm.

Good for what ails you: Fran Lebowitz and David Letterman in the 1980s.

Looking for what’s real beneath the sensationalism of the Fabulous Hamptons.

Last week, the Bonac boys track team improved to 5-0 with a crucial win at Harborfields. On May 14 — if weather allows — they’ll take on West Islip at home for the league championship. Both teams are undefeated, setting up an epic showdown on the Long Lane track.

East Hampton girls track hosted Harborfields on May 4, dominating the meet, 114-25. Yani Cuesta, the team’s head coach, was especially happy with the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. 

It would’ve been easy to give up on the Bonackers after they lost their first seven games of the season, but cue Journey. This team simply won’t stop believing.

Bonac softballers won both on and off their home field last week, besting Hauppauge after celebrating the team’s 10 seniors. Also in the game, Izzy Briand, a senior pitcher, recorded her 100th strikeout of the season.

The current exhibition at the Pollock-Krasner House in Springs features a remarkable collection of paintings by Keith Mayerson, who immersed himself in the lives and work of Elaine and Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner.