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Colton Givner, an advertising art director, graphic artist, and illustrator, died of emphysema at home in New York City on June 15. He was 81 and had been ill for a year. A part-time resident of East Hampton since 1979, among his accomplishments was the design of the logo for the Palm restaurant on Main Street.

Live music returns to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett Thursday night at 7:30 with G.E. Smith on guitar accompanying Joseph Arthur, a singer and songwriter.

The question of whether Wainscott should be carved out of East Hampton Town as its own village has divided residents of the hamlet. One group has gathered more than 200 signatures on a petition to draw a line of incorporation, and on the other, a new collective called Wainscott United has begun a campaign of its own in opposition to that idea.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced last Thursday that legislation he co-sponsored that would strengthen oversight of mining to protect water quality unanimously passed both houses of the State Legislature. The legislation was based on recommendations of a grand jury empaneled in the county in 2018 and 2019 regarding illegal dumping and sand mining regulation.

With the release of a new report on Plum Island and its future, environmental groups and elected officials have renewed the call for the federal General Services Administration to call off the island's sale and preserve it instead.

A series of recent humpback whale strandings on the East End are evidence of another year of high mortality rates for the species along the Atlantic Coast and particularly in New York, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.

Several people called 911 on Sunday after watching girls who could not swim struggling in the water near the North Haven side of Sag Harbor Cove. Adults who went in after them were soon in trouble too. Good Samaritans at a nearby marina who heard the commotion leapt into action to save them.

A mom told town police that she had been distracted by her 5-year-old daughter in the backseat when she drove off Northwest Road and into a tree on the afternoon of July 20.

A woman was leaving the Gulf gas station on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor on the evening of July 22 when she saw a young child, visibly upset, running across the road yelling "Mommy" and continuing on the side of the road.

East Hampton Village police responded to a social distancing complaint. There were 30 guests present, whereas the limit is now 50, so there were technically no violations, although officers asked the homeowner if the guests could be more spread out and wear masks. She said she would do her best.

Southampton Town police have found the two teenagers who went missing last week from their homes in Flanders.

It might have been just another big summer event in the Hamptons, except that Saturday's Chainsmokers' concert at Nova's Ark in Bridgehampton took place in a world where concerts and other major events have been silenced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the Chainsmokers' event management companies are being investigated.

The East Hampton Town Trustees and the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation have applied to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and the town board for emergency authorization to use an aquatic weed harvester in the Georgica Cove section of Georgica Pond.

A recent cold soup recipe testing tear (vichyssoise, cantaloupe, beet-jalapeño, Sungold tomato, and zucchini-basil) has been easy, fun, very inspiring, and economical, as well.

New Vietnamese at the Hampton Racquet Club, Moby's has a market, and new specials at Bridgehampton Inn and Nick and Toni's

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called a drive-in concert held Saturday in Bridgehampton "a gross violation of common sense," while Southampton Town officials responded to a state inquiry into the event by saying they were conducting their own investigation.

The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill will open its galleries for the first time since March on Aug. 7, with three exhibitions of works by and about East End artists drawn in large part from its permanent collection.

Beginning on Saturday, the Arts Center at Duck Creek will host a series of talks that highlight and describe the work of the Plain Sight Project, which has been documenting the history of East Hampton's slave-owning past for several years.

East End Photographers and Artists Alliance have new exhibitions along with new gallery shows at Halsey McKay, MM Fine Art, BCK Fine Arts, Chase Edwards, and more.