A relatively quiet weekend is ahead for the East Hampton Library, which has returned its self-service Starbucks coffee and tea machine to the main lobby. It had been removed when the Covid-19 pandemic first spread across the nation. The cost is $1 for those who supply their own mugs; $2 for those who don't.

After the isolation of the pandemic, "we all feel like we need to unite," Nia Dawson said, and so she has organized an East End Interdependence Day for Sunday, the Fourth of July, to celebrate unity and highlight food justice.

For many of East Hampton High School's 231 graduates, one obstacle that defined the last two years of school was merely a postscript to the graduation festivities. Instead of the masks, social distancing, and other limitations that were for many months necessary because of Covid-19, there were high-fives, hugs, and smiles in abundance.

Contrary to assumption, East Hampton Airport is not nearly as economically important as it was said to be in the past.

East Hampton will never build its way out of its housing crisis.

With some unknown number of those who live here put out at the idea that anyone would try to make a left turn onto Main Street at this time of year, we are perhaps overly unsympathetic to the folks who try. 

It’s been a year since I began writing “The Shipwreck Rose.” This column is number 52. Only 49 more years — not columns, years! — to go before I match the record set by my grandmother Jeannette, from whom I seem to have inherited my typographical verbosity.

A good time was had by all at Pierson High School's graduation ceremony — Fred Thiele in particular. 

On Father’s Day my daughter said I was a happy person, and that that fact was probably the greatest gift I could have bestowed upon my children.

July Fourth is a celebration of independence, and these are the reflections of an alumnus of the ’60s, the era of freedom.

The latest real estate transfers.

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A Hand Lane resident told police last week that an assortment of jewelry belonging to his late wife had gone missing sometime this past year. Jewelry cases holding items valued at around $15,000 were discovered empty, a redacted police report said, when the man was going through his things for the pending sale of his house.

It was a normal Sunday with a good crowd at Main Beach, said Drew Smith, chief of East Hampton Village lifeguards, when, around 2 p.m., a teenage girl was caught in a rip current. "A lieutenant at Stand Two called, 'Heads up!' " he said, and another lieutenant guard, Andrew Wilson, raced through the waves to the girl, calmed her, and assisted her back to safety with a float.

Two passengers and a driver were injured recently in separate accidents on local roads.

Caylynn McMaster, 27, was charged on the afternoon of June 20 with criminal possession of oxycodone and driving while impaired by drugs, both misdemeanors. East Hampton Town police said she had been driving erratically on Route 114, and that they found the car on Goodfriend Drive with her in the driver's seat apparently passed out. Asked to exit the car, she was "unsteady on her feet," according to the report, which said that 11 blue pills stamped "M30" were found in the center console of her 2014 Volkswagen. Ms. McMaster was held overnight and appeared in court before Justice Steven Tekulsky the next morning.

East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Pierson High School were all well represented among the nominees for 2021's Teeny Awards, given by East End Arts to high schoolers who have distinguished themselves in the performing arts. The awards ceremony, on July 11, will be held at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center and streamed on Facebook. Nominees will be there in person, not only for the celebrations, but also for live performances.

The Long Island Community Foundation's Long Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative has awarded a $100,000 grant to the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center. The center plans to use the grant to support the Teach Me How to Fish program, an initiative that aims to tackle the wealth equity gap by supporting Black communities on the East End.

Jester Jim will return to Guild Hall on Wednesday afternoon to kick off KidFest with juggling, comedy, and music. Two shows, one at 3 and one at 5, will be preceded by fun workshops for kids. Tickets are $15 for children, $30 for adults; masks are mandatory for all attendees over the age of 2. Guild Hall has suggested taking beach chairs or blankets to the outdoor performance.

Erica Abeel’s novel “The Commune” takes place in the summer of 1970, during the lead-up to the Women’s Strike for Equality, and recognizable literary figures abound as second-wave feminism comes in for some lumps.