Soldier Ride — The Hamptons, a community event to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project, returns to the South Fork on Saturday, taking participants from the Amagansett Firehouse to Sag Harbor and back.

ChangeHampton, which promotes restorative, biodiverse, healthy, and sustainable landscaping practices as well as expansion of pollinator pathways on eastern Long Island, is offering a forum to further a conversation about “moving the needle,” as the climate crisis intensifies, on Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Nature Conservancy, at 142 Route 114 in East Hampton.

“Goosebumps” author at East Hampton Library, raptors at the Montauk Lighthouse, Dance Theatre of Harlem at Guild Hall, the Children's Museum of the East End's Family Fair, and more coming up for families and kids.

This still from an LTV archive video shows 1989’s competitors locked in a tight race for the clam shucking title.

A man “with white hair and a blue jacket” took another patron’s phone during a movie at the Regal Cinema and said he would not return it. He later told police he’d taken the phone to “make a stand” because the owner was talking loudly on it during the movie.

Two drivers were charged last week in unrelated cases with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance after East Hampton Town police found bags containing a “white rock-like substance” in their vehicles.

A Brooklyn man was arraigned recently on multiple misdemeanor charges related to a May 25 accident that injured four passengers in his Mercedes S.U.V., according to police.

When a Clinton visit here was a novel thing. And much more from The Star of yore.

It’s a great tradition. The popular Montauk Grand Slam charity fishing tournament — now in its 25th year — will once again be held this weekend at Uihlein’s Marina on West Lake Drive.

Melina Sarlo, who’s about to enter her sophomore year at Hofstra University, where she’s playing on its women’s lacrosse team and majoring in business, was a member of the Argentine lacrosse team that recently qualified to play in the World Cup championships next summer in Tokyo.

The East Hampton Little League’s 10-U all-star baseball team became one of only a few in local annals to advance to sectional competition.

Kerri Walsh Jennings, a five-time Olympian (and three-time gold medalist) from California, will be in town this week to give a youth volleyball clinic at East Hampton High School Monday morning that is to be followed by a pro-am beach volleyball tournament Tuesday at Kirk Park in Montauk.

The week ahead will feature the Hampton Lifeguard Association’s run-swim-run tomorrow at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett and what could be the last 18-mile Paddlers 4 Humanity paddle from Montauk Point to Block Island Saturday.

There were 163 finishers in the I-Tri empowerment program’s 16th youth triathlon Saturday at Long Beach in Noyac — 129 of them being I-Tri members.

East Hampton Town experienced a total governmental funds loss of $27.3 million in 2024, primarily due to losses in the general fund and the community preservation fund, the latter impacted by last year’s $56 million purchase of a 30-acre lot at 66 Main Street in Wainscott, the largest C.P.F. purchase in the town’s history.

A choice find on Rummage Sale Saturday, and other summertime pleasures (and occasional kvetches).

East Hampton Village is on the right track to target noise from landscaping equipment, but it is wrong in its way of going about it.

If Nick LaLota is not willing to speak up for Congress, he should look for another job.

There are more people crowded out here than ever before, but fewer of them are willing or able to raise their hand to volunteer to keep our community institutions going.

My own summer jobs history provides a look at just a few of the roles a young person can find on the South Fork — and the memories they create.