A Stony Brook University Ph.D. student studying triploid oysters in Napeague Harbor and Great South Bay was disappointed to learn that someone had raided both study areas and waded away with thousands of mature triploid oysters over the last several months.

As the weather grows colder, Covid-19 is once again on the upswing in New York, including in East Hampton Town and across Suffolk County, and health care professionals are pleading with the public to remain vigilant and, yes, get vaccinated if they have not yet done so.

The National Weather Service has said that a record-breaking six tornadoes touched down on Long Island during Saturday’s powerful storm, hitting with force as far east as Hampton Bays and North Sea, and though East Hampton was spared the worst of it, one family in Springs had huge trees fall on their house and car. The house was intact, but the car was totaled.

The tanks holding effluent from the pump-out boats operated by the East Hampton Town Trustees in Three Mile Harbor and Lake Montauk are undersized and in need of replacement, representatives of the town’s water quality technical advisory committee told the town board.

East Hampton Town is set to proceed with the creation of an administrative adjudication bureau to expedite processing minor code violations, allowing people to pay fines for them by mail or online, rather than having to appear in town justice court.

A Nov. 9 announcement that the Long Island Power Authority and the New York State Department of Public Service had agreed on a new management contract with PSEG Long Island came with reassuring words from LIPA officials but also continued criticism from government officials and activists.

Sag Harbor’s First Presbyterian Church, often called the Old Whalers Church, has experienced many evolutions since its first building was constructed in 1766. In 1816 that building, known as the Old Barn Church, was replaced with a larger meeting place for a growing congregation.

In her new novel, Eileen Obser clearly shows herself to be an authority on her subject: renting rooms to the young, self-absorbed, inconsiderate, conniving, and broke.

The driver in a fatal crash in Amagansett that took the life of a mother walking her children in January took a plea deal last week, accepting a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death.

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming has teamed with Suffolk County Sheriff Errol Toulon and his Sheriff’s Transition and Re-entry Team, New Hour LI, and the Sound Justice Initiative on a clothing drive to help those transitioning to life after incarceration.

Two recent car accidents on East Hampton Town and Village roads resulted in injuries, including a suspected concussion suffered by an 8-year-old girl in a crash on the afternoon of Nov. 9.

Three drivers who crashed their vehicles on town and village roads recently found themselves facing alcohol-related charges.

House painters showed up at the wrong Atlantic Avenue, Amagansett, address on the morning of Nov. 10. They discovered their mistake about 45 minutes later when the homeowner contacted police about two suspicious vehicles on the property.

The idea that East Hampton High School’s teams ought not to have to travel so far afield to play games has been around for a while. Now Section XI finally may have come around to that way of thinking.

Sienna Salamy, a freshman at East Hampton High School, has inherited a nonprofit organization called Play It Forward, which her older sister started when she was a three-sport athlete here.

Rick Pickering, the owner of Ship Ashore Marina in Sag Harbor, broke the bad news: “The turbocharger on the engine of your boat needs to be rebuilt, or we can get you a new one.”

Lee Zeldin was a House of Representatives back-bencher until Donald Trump announced his bid for president.

A proposed revision to the East Hampton Town ethics law discussed this week goes too far.

My teen years here in the 1970s, in retrospect, seems a halcyon time.

When I was a teenager, the doomed trajectory of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life story caught my attention.