The Painters Union political action committee has endorsed Representative Lee Zeldin's re-election campaign.

A political action committee has added $550,000 to its advertising buy in New York's First Congressional District, where Nancy Goroff is challenging Representative Lee Zeldin.

In an election year that is anything but normal, gone are the traditional in-person events like door-to-door canvassing and gatherings for fund-raising and enthusiasm-building. Instead, people eager to help their respective parties are working phone banks and text banks targeting voters in battleground states, distributing mail-in ballot applications and lawn signs, and making sure people where, how, and when to vote.

The Suffolk County Aquaculture Lease Program's 10-year review advisory group will hold a public meeting on Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. via Zoom. Members of the public will have the ability to comment.

Because of a booming real estate market, revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund in August were $11.16 million, an increase of more than 85 percent from same month last year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced on Monday.

The East Hampton Town Trustees unanimously approved signing on to the joint proposal submitted two weeks ago by Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource Energy to the New York State Public Service Commission in support of the proposed South Fork Wind farm, to be situated approximate-ly 35 miles off Montauk Point.

A proposal to impose a moratorium until March 1 on commercial redevelopment in Sag Harbor Village's waterfront areas moved one step closer to becoming a reality on Wednesday, when the village board voted in a straw poll to approve the measure once it has been approved by the Suffolk County Planning Commission.

At 58 Ocean Avenue in East Hampton Village, the Cyrus L.W. Eidlitz House is frequently overshadowed by the often-imitated neighboring Schuyler Quackenbush House, which Eidlitz (1853-1921) designed for his sister Harriet Eidlitz Quackenbush and her husband.

Joseph LiPani of Stuart, Fla., formerly of Montauk, died on Sunday at Martin Hospital South in Stuart of pneumonia. He was 92. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

Annie Solomon, who, with her husband, the artist Syd Solomon, was at the center of the South Fork art scene from the 1950s through the '70s, died on Friday in Sarasota, Fla. She was 102.

Audrey Joan Roberts, a former assistant to the president of the State University at Farmingdale, died on Aug. 28 at Arden Courts Memory Care Community in Naples, Fla. She was 104 and had lived in East Hampton for many years.

William Q. DeNatale, a fashion designer and artist, died on July 28 at his home near Cedar Point in East Hampton. He was 79.

Alice Bean Brown, who taught English at the East Hampton Middle School for nine years, died at the Swedish Medical Center in Denver early on the morning of Aug. 30 after a stroke. She was 81.

Harvest lunches and tastings at Wolffer, a tented Moby's for the cooler months, and specials at Fresno

Since 1921, the Ryder family lived in the white farmhouse next to a small pond on North Haven that has been known in local lore as Ryder's Pond. This week, the Village of North Haven held a name dedication ceremony to officially designate name the pond for the family.

A single accident on the roads was reported last week, involving a car and a bicycle.

Two young East Hampton men were charged in recent weeks with driving while intoxicated.

"Harry Chapin: When In Doubt, Do Something" will transport viewers of a certain age to a time that seems both comfortingly familiar and scarcely recognizable.

Wilkin Delossantos of the Bronx, 29, was charged in the Village of East Hampton this week with leaving the scene of an accident, as well as unlicensed operation of a vehicle.

Police arrived at CVS in East Hampton Village on Saturday evening in response to a complaint of over 100 people inside the store and 50 on the pharmacy line who were not socially distancing. Police did not observe any violations of state orders.