Meditation, a pond exploration, hiking, and historical walking tours are on the outdoors agenda in the coming weeks.

A westbound Long Island Rail Road train struck a pedestrian on the tracks near the Bridgehampton station around noon on Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police and the Southampton Town Police Department.

The Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation’s Virtual Swim Challenge to benefit the construction of an aquatics center at the Playhouse will run from Saturday through July 31.

We are getting close to August and it's clear that the fishing scene has shifted into full summer mode. The summer menu of fish includes everything from wahoo to swordfish, codfish to red hake, as well as dozens of other fish in between.

Absent from the summer's sports scene last year, triathlon competition returned to the South Fork last weekend, with one on Saturday at Long Beach in Noyac that benefited Theresa Roden's award-winning I-Tri program for teenage girls and one on Sunday with a dramatic finish at the Montauk Lighthouse.

The teams that contested the finals of the town men's slow-pitch softball league last summer met for the first time this season in Amagansett, with the Clubhouse, the 2020 runner-up, soundly defeating McMahon's, the defending champion.

Maidstone Market's 7-on-7 men's soccer team clinched the top playoff seed by virtue of playing to a 2-2 tie with the East Hampton Soccer Club at East Hampton's Herrick Park last Thursday.

James P. Daly, who worked in the resort industry in East Hampton, died in his sleep on July 5. The Union, Ky., resident, also formerly of Acton, Mass., was 71 years old.

A discrimination complaint filed by a civilian employee of the East Hampton Village Police Department, who claims she was harassed because of her gender, will be given a hearing in front of a New York State Division of Human Rights administrative law judge.

Eileen Patricia Eagan, who worked for the Suffolk County Water Authority for 26 years, died of cancer on June 30 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. Ms. Eagan, who had been living in Springs with her sister, Anne Marie Brierley, was 80.

Marilyn Galanter Lukashok of East Hampton and New York City died in her sleep at home in New York on July 12. She was 94.

Rose DeFina first trip to Montauk coincided with a hurricane, but she fell in love with the hamlet, and she and her husband became full-time residents. She died on July 11 at home in Miami. She was 88.

The owner of a Toyota Tundra parked it, unlocked, overnight last Thursday on Crystal Drive in East Hampton, with a window rolled down and $8,000 in the center console. The money, including 50 two-dollar bills, was gone when he returned at 6:30 a.m. Friday.

Reynold Ruffins, an acclaimed illustrator and artist, died at home in Sag Harbor on July 11. He was 90.

Redjeb Jordania, a boatbuilder, author, college professor, teacher, trained musician, arranger, and composer who played the piano for ballet companies in Paris during the Roaring Twenties, and a longtime resident of Springs, died last Thursday at his home there, surrounded by family. He was 99 and had been ailing for only a short time. 

Police did a thorough sweep of Montauk party spots last week, leading to five arrests.

Two men, one from Southampton and the other from Springs, were charged by East Hampton Town police last week with misdemeanor drunken driving.

Following a public hearing last month, the board voted to acquire three parcels on Gardiner's Bay near Albert's Landing in Amagansett, together comprising about five acres of vacant waterfront property. Two were bought with community preservation fund money; the third was donated by its owner, who has also pledged a sizable amount toward the purchase of the other two. 

It seemed that few, if any, were happy when the East Hampton Town Board finally concluded a six-hour meeting that saw scathing criticism from residents on a proposal to erect a 185-foot emergency and cellphone communication tower on a wooded parcel in a residential area in Springs.

Ask any bayman, and all would agree that the bay scallop fishery in the Peconic Bay estuary system in the past two years was a total calamity. As such, it was no surprise to learn that the United States Department of Commerce recently declared the events of 2019-20 a fishery disaster.