The 7-on-7 men's soccer league's top two teams in the regular season, Maidstone Market and the East Hampton Soccer Club, were upset in playoff semifinal games played last Thursday at East Hampton's Herrick Park.

A graveside service for Daniel King will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Green River Cemetery in Springs.

Waterborne bacteria counts have surged at ponds, beaches, and bays this summer, including at Fort Pond Bay in Montauk.

Matthew J. Harris, an attorney formerly of East Hampton, died on Aug. 2 at Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. He was 79. No cause of death was given.

Ronald Lewis, an entrepreneur, artist, and gallerist who lived in East Hampton since 1988, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on July 31 after a brief illness. He was 87.

Kenneth Freeman, a lifelong horse lover and carriage driving enthusiast, died on Aug. 3 at Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue, following an accident doing what he loved most, driving his carriage. He was 76.

Florence M. Bevan, a Springs School kindergarten teacher for 16 years, died of cancer at home on Shelter Island on Aug. 4. She was 89. 

Too many cars are not reacting to silent blue or green flashing lights in fire and ambulance volunteers' vehicles the same way they would to a siren, said East Hampton Fire Department Chief Gerard Turza, and this summer is worse than ever, because, he suggested, the pandemic has attracted more people unfamiliar with how local emergency services operate.

A handwritten note showed up in an Orchard Lane resident's mailbox on July 29 saying that her pool pump was broken, that it was very loud, and requesting that she turn it off. The next day an unknown person entered her backyard and unplugged the pump. A repair company was to have arrived last week.

A teenage driver who reportedly fled the scene of an accident late Tuesday night that left a pedestrian with serious injuries was arrested a few hours later, at 2:40 a.m. yesterday, at his home in Montauk.

A few more details have emerged regarding an accident reported here last week, in which Paul Brennan of Sagaponack had to be extracted from his 2020 Land Rover after a near head-on collision on Stephen Hand's Path near Two Holes of Water Road, East Hampton.

A 78-year-old woman who lives on King's Point Road in Springs was arrested on Aug. 3, charged with menacing with a weapon and criminal mischief with intent to cause injury, misdemeanors. 

Four recent accidents on local roads ended in charges of driving while intoxicated against all four motorists, according to East Hampton Town police.

"Cousin Belle," presumably 15-year-old Caroline Isabella Homan (1846-1923), daughter of Egbert Homan (1812-1888) and the former Caroline Conklin (1821-1898), wrote this detailed letter to Joshua B. Edwards (1830-1915) in October of 1861.

With Covid-19 infections on the rise again in Suffolk County, South Fork business owners are reinstituting mask mandates and other safety protocols. "We got to a point where we realized we had to take a stand," said one, Eric Lemonides, a co-owner of Almond in Bridgehampton, where patrons 12 and over are being asked to show proof of vaccination or a recent negative Covid test.

The East Hampton Town Board held its first substantive discussion of adult-use cannabis since Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed legislation legalizing its recreational use in March. 

Robert Cornicelli, a Republican and service-disabled veteran who is an advocate for veterans and the developmentally disabled, has announced that he is seeking the G.O.P. nomination for the First Congressional District seat.

Moody's Investors Service affirmed East Hampton Town's Aaa credit rating, the highest rating it assigns, in a credit opinion issued last Thursday.

A proposal to extend a moratorium on waterfront development in Sag Harbor Village to Feb. 1 was approved by the village board on Tuesday.

In collaboration with New York Natural Heritage Program and Cornell Cooperative Extension, Save the Sound's private donors sponsored a first-of-its-kind dive: five days underwater to survey biodiversity where the Long Island Sound and Peconic Estuary empty around 822-acre Plum Island.