East Hampton Town will begin enforcing summer beach parking regulations on Friday, April 24, weeks earlier than the regulations usually take effect, in order to forestall overcrowding at beaches and in parks during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Bluefish Jump

Manhattan

April 20, 2020

To The Star:

Eight decades of life summarized in five words, captured by an early morning memory, the image so clear. Barely awake, alone in a skiff, no others around. Dressed in raggedy shorts, bleached T, threadbare sneaks.

HE WORKS OBSESSIVELY every night, often till the sun comes over his compound: the farthest-out home on Long Island’s South Fork. Hours later, after a restless sleep, Peter Beard walks out to the edge of the bluff, sits on a boulder, and watches the birds wheel and keen over the sea. “I always feel better,” he says, “when I’ve done a bit of this.”

At one point the county was seeing at or more than 1,000 new confirmed cases every day. From Monday to Tuesday, that number dropped to 587, the lowest since March 26.

The Southampton Arts Center is celebrating Earth Day with Trash to Treasure, the third in its weekly Creativity Challenge series.

The South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center has introduced a new digital program to help people stay connected to nature while stuck at home helping to stop the spread of Covid-19.

A brigade of sewers and cutters is turning donated fabric into 1,600 protective masks outfitted with surgical-grade filters for East Hampton health care workers, first responders, and essential personnel in the town and village.

Apparently in reaction to his appearance on the cover of the New York Post Tuesday morning, the "Good Morning America" host George Stephanopoulos turned to Twitter to explain himself.

Katherine McMahon of the Elaine de Kooning House gets creative for displaced restaurant workers.

Private golf clubs, while still deemed nonessential, have been allowed to reopen to their members, the governor said, with restrictions.

The ferries connecting the South and North Forks with Shelter Island now require that all customers wear a mask or facial covering, even inside their cars.

On Sunday afternoon, County Executive Steve Bellone reported receiving word of 132 more deaths, bringing the county's total to 825.

Pending positive identification, the body of the photographer Peter Beard, who disappeared from his Montauk property on March 31, was found not far from his house on Sunday.

Officers have begun enforcing social distancing, limiting visitors, and closing parks when they reach a certain capacity.

Confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Suffolk County jumped by more than 1,200 to 26,702, but hospitalizations in the county have been down for the past three days, indicating a possible plateau.

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center has launched a series of online meet-ups just for teens.

Meet-ups are twice weekly, on Sundays and Thursdays. The first one is Sunday at 5 p.m., when there will be a virtual murder-mystery game.

April is Global Astronomy Month, and the Hamptons Observatory has some suggestions for how you can enjoy the stars from the comfort of your own home.

A team of more than 100 people have been rushing to provide medical workers with 10,000 isolation gowns, which have been in high demand and short supply as the Covid-19 pandemic rages.

The task force's mission is to "work together with the White House to chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity," amid an economic contraction that has seen 22 million new claims for unemployment insurance in the past four weeks.

On Thursday, as confirmed cases of Covid-19 neared 222,300 and deaths across the state climbed above 12,000, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo extended the New York State on PAUSE executive order to May 15. Schools and nonessential businesses will remain closed and social distancing restrictions will remain in place.