An accident in East Hampton Village at 5 p.m. last Thursday tied up traffic for a while in the vicinity of North Main Street by Hook Mill Road.

East Hampton Town police stopped three allegedly unlicensed drivers last week, two in Montauk and the third in East Hampton.

Austin Allen and Tucker Bock, rising seventh graders at the Springs School, are pursuing their passion for race cars at the Riverhead Raceway and beyond in small cars called Bandoleros that are powered by lawn tractor engines and can reach speeds of 70 miles per hour.

"Make no mistake, East Hampton Town Board, we will not take this sitting down," Jacki Esposito said on Monday evening, as around 50 of her Springs neighbors murmured in agreement during a backyard meeting on Crandall Street, where a campaign to thwart the town board's proposal to site a 185-foot monopole for emergency and wireless communications equipment in an adjacent wooded area was gathering strength.

A new downsized plan for an emergency room annex Stony Brook Southampton Hospital will build in East Hampton received a mixed reaction from East Hampton Town Planning Board members, who expressed concern about traffic snarls the facility could create.

The long-running dispute between East Hampton Town and the owner of Duryea's Lobster Deck on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk continues, with the most recent focus an effort to expand a dock and a contract with a boat share company.

Two lawsuits involving local sand mines, one in Noyac and one in East Hampton, are making their way through the state court system, with two recent rulings appearing to conflict with each other.

The East Hampton Town Trustees approved a special season and designated areas for harvesting soft clams by a technique known as powering, or churning, last month.

Anna Throne-Holst, a former Southampton Town supervisor and the Democratic Party's 2016 candidate to represent New York's First Congressional District, has endorsed Suffolk County Legislator Kara Hahn in a bid for the Democratic nomination in 2022.

Guild Hall will host Pirate School, "a madcap, swashbuckling comedy variety show," in person on Wednesday at 3 and 5 p.m. There will also be pirate-theme workshops before both shows, at 2 and 4 p.m., in partnership with the Golden Eagle art supply store. Tickets to the shows are $15 for children and $30 for adults, and the workshops cost $35 per child (free for member families).

The Sag Harbor School Board and the Mashashimuet Park board continue to hash out their differences with ongoing negotiations about the district's use of park facilities for school sports.

A notice from Eversource Energy, which is developing the wind farm with Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind, said that 23 test borings will be made using a track-mounted drill rig at locations along the Long Island Rail Road right of way between Wainscott Northwest Road and Cove Hollow Road.

East Hampton Town has gotten a $5,600 grant from the Preservation League of New York State to fund a cultural resource survey of cemeteries. 

After two months of nutrient-gobbling, the floating wetlands in Montauk's Fort Pond are healthy, if a little rattled by Tropical Storm Elsa earlier this month. The storm's strong winds flipped several of their corners and caused some of the 7,200 plants to fall from their plastic holders.

Sag Harbor Village Mayor James Larocca announced an initiative to develop affordable housing on Tuesday. "Preserving, protecting, and nourishing the community requires making it possible for our young to be able to afford to live and prosper here," he said in a statement. 

Ibogaine's psychedelic nature allows patients to confront the trauma and circumstances which lead them to become opioid users. The trip lasts between 24 and 36 hours. "It's clinical and supernatural at the same time," Spero Alexio said.

This photograph from the Amagansett Historical Association's Carleton Kelsey Collection shows Lodowick H. King (1844-1904), a native of Amagansett, seated for a portrait. He wears his Union Army Civil War uniform with his hat, which features his regiment number within a cross, set on a table next to him.

Louis J. Trakis, a prolific sculptor, cartoonist, and teacher whose work reflected deep philosophical commitments to nature, died at home in Southampton on July 7. Also a resident of Brooklyn, he was 94.

Dorothy M. Sinclair of Montauk, who taught elementary school for more than 30 years in Syosset, died of an unexpected illness at Stony Brook University Hospital on July 12. Most recently a resident of Greenport, she was 84.

Catherine Pombo, 91, of East Hampton died at home on June 24.