The Aboff family of Aboff’s Paint Stores has donated 3,200 N95 respirator masks to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital as part of a donation of personal protective equipment to several health care providers across Long Island.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said last week that he will issue an executive order to expand absentee voting in the state’s June 23 primary elections.     

The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce is offering free 30-minute virtual appointments to help small businesses apply for loans the federal government has made available for those economically impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two North Fork companies are working together to provide face shields to fire departments, ambulance agencies, and hospitals across the East End for use when dealing with patients suspected of having Covid-19.     

Writing in the first person, East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc issued a rare press release this week listing some of the things he has been up to since the Covid-19 crisis began.

Social distancing has appeared to slow the transmission of Covid-19, but the number of new cases remains alarmingly high.   

It is therefore with quite a bit of poignant nostalgia, but perhaps just as much anticipatory relief, that I have made the decision to write my final weekly “Connections” next month, for the big Memorial Day issue.     

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A 31-year-old man was arrested on a drunken-driving charge on Saturday in Water Mill. Other motorists called Southampton Town police about a “reckless, erratic” driver on Montauk Highway around 10 p.m.

Watching a live stream of the East Hampton Town Board’s Tuesday meeting, I began to think about the tattletale impulse.     

The culture critic and iconoclast Katie Roiphe is specific about a particular preoccupation: “women strong in public, weak in private.”

The prices listed here have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

For me, boredom has always exerted a siren pull — to the extent that once, inspired by a spate of entropic films coming out of Europe in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, I dreamed of heading up my own film studio dedicated to producing the kind of profoundly listless screenplays that I couldn’t get enough of.

The similarities between Covid-19 and climate change are striking. In both cases, it isn’t too late to make it less bad than if we do nothing, and “less bad” is as good as it gets.

Yani Cuesta, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls track team, said during a telephone conversation on Friday that she thought there would be no spring season, at least insofar as girls track was concerned.     

The Rev. Jim Erwin said parishioners or any member of the public can donate canned goods, dried goods such as cereal and snacks, and toiletries in the outdoor box, and then those in need can stop by any time of day or night.   

New York State’s total Covid-19 hospitalizations have been flat and “even a tick down,” according to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Tuesday, and Stony Brook Southampton Hospital’s confirmed Covid-19 admissions appear to be following suit.     

Takeout options, grocery delivery, meal donations to health care providers, and more.

A homeless man who stole a sport utility vehicle in New York City was found with the car in Wainscott on Friday night.