The East Hampton Town fire marshal's office is investigating the cause of a fire on Tuesday morning that "totaled" a Springs house, said Springs Fire Department Chief Tim Taylor. The family who lived there had gotten out safely by the time firefighters arrived.

"Get Dancing" at Guild Hall will celebrate the choreography of the late Andy de Groat, a frequent collaborator of Robert Wilson, who will take part in a panel discussion about the early years of downtown performance.

Yung Jake's Nerf guns at Tripoli, Christmas in the Shed, paintings by Grace Hartigan at Christie's, and new work by Candace Hill Montgomery at Fireplace Project are among this week's gallery highlights.

A discussion of mid-century modernist architecture in the Hamptons, the Montauk Film Festival will return, plus jazz, live theater, and a silent disco are on the entertainment horizon.

Jazz is alive from Southampton to Montauk, the HooDoo Loungers will bring New Orleans to Sagaponack, and Judy Collins and Steve Earle will play the Talkhouse, as live music continues its comeback on the East End.

Amid the disease threat posed by ticks, SUNY is offering a free lab service for testing them.

Brenda Simmons became a curator while working at Southampton Village Hall — commissioning school kids to create art for Black History Month. Now, she's the director of a new African American cultural museum.

House-made exotic ice cream at Rosies, an artists dinner at Watermill Center will feature the food of Adam Mayer and a tribute to a choreographer, and Wolffer plans a culinary tour of the Rhone Valley.

A driver who East Hampton Town police said was intoxicated and his female passenger were seriously injured in an early morning crash on Monday in Montauk.

Medium or high levels of the enterococcus bacteria were reported in 14 of the 28 water bodies tested by Concerned Citizens of Montauk last week, with notably high levels found in Montauk at a site on Fort Pond Bay off Tuthill Road.

An Amagansett man was arrested after a police search of an apartment revealed mushrooms, Ecstasy, and a stolen handgun.

There will be a memorial service for Craig Eisenberg on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton.

This week's enriching outdoor excursions include a buck moon hike, a trek to the Truman Capote marker at Crooked Pond, and an exploration of a salt marsh in Northwest.

Last week, I was mugged. Someone pulled my lobster traps, whatever lobsters they may have contained, and three dozen oysters I had placed in the traps and left the rope tangled in knots. "Some people really suck," said my companion, who helps me on deck.

Kai Alversa struck out 14 of the 17 batters he faced when East Hampton's 11-12 traveling all-star tream played Southampton in a District 36 playoff game last week. And it might just be the first time that's ever happened in a playoff game here.

East Hampton's Little League 9-and-10-year-old softball team routed Eastport-South Manor 17-5 at the Pantigo fields last Thursday evening, becoming the first Bonac softballers to win a District 36 championship since 2013.

East Hampton's 9-10 boys Little League all-star team came close to joining the 9-10 girls in the District 36 winner's circle this past week, but fell short in a championship game played at Riverhead's Stotsky Park Saturday morning.

An overhaul of East Hampton Town's emergency communications system is well underway, but additional towers are still needed for it to achieve comprehensive coverage. Meanwhile, the town's overtaxed wireless communications infrastructure is causing poor-to-nonexistent cellphone service in Springs and other areas.

By a split 3-2 vote, Riverhead became the first East End town to pave the way for retail sales of adult-use recreational marijuana and cafes for on site consumption. "If we don't regulate this, the black market is going to thrive, and the black market is not where we want people to buy it; that's where you start having issues," a town councilman said.

Sallie Rembert Quirk, a Sag Harbor artist, liked to laugh that she lived and worked on three islands: "Manhattan Island, Long Island, and the island of Mallorca," as it says on her website. And it was on that Spanish isle that she died on June 5 from a lung infection at age 82.