Long Island Restaurant Week is back, Day of the Dead specials at La Fondita, an Artists and Writers dinner with Fitzhugh Karol at Almond, and new sauces from Loaves and Fishes.

Paid Notice: Dr. John J. Cossentino, age 93, of St. Petersburg, Fla., and formerly of Fort Myers, Fla., Brooklyn, Malverne, Rockville Centre, Montauk, and Southampton, sadly left our world on October 5, 2025, after a life richly lived in service and kindness.

The public has been invited to “Times That Try Our Souls — Let the Healing Begin,” which will bring together leaders from Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, on Sunday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork in Bridgehampton.

Joe McKee, East Hampton’s head football coach, had nothing but good things to say about his team in its 31-28 loss to West Islip High School on Saturday. 

East Hampton High’s girls swimmers endured an intense week of competition last week, with a win over Sayville and a loss to Connetquot.

East Hampton High’s golf team owns a 9-1 regular-season record — good for a first-place tie with Westhampton Beach — and is riding a nine-game winning streak into the county team tournament, which is to begin Thursday at 3 p.m. at the Amagansett Golf Club. 

The East Hampton Town Board reported that work was imminent on two long-awaited projects in Montauk: the Ditch Plain dune reconstruction and the dredging of the Lake Montauk Inlet.

It’s been nearly a year since East Hampton Town asked builders to submit proposals to design and build houses for the affordable housing subdivision called Cantwell Court. All the estimates they got back were too expensive.

From the Building Department to the senior center, contrasts were drawn between the town board’s Cate Rogers and Ian Calder-Piedmonte, incumbent Democrats, and J.P. Foster, their Republican challenger. 

Monday’s Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee meeting saw an appeal for support from a resident of Further Lane whose new neighbor at number 370 has planted a double hedge along the lane, blocking a cherished vista. ACAC members were sympathetic.

The opening of scallop season in state waters is Nov. 3. In town trustee waters the date is Nov. 9. But the harvest may not be very good.

In Suffolk County, early voting runs from Saturday to Nov. 2, locally at Windmill Village on Accabonac Road.

Research and memories are the underpinnings of Robert Hefner's bacykard orchard in Amagansett.

This turn-of-the-20th-century photo shows the James Huntting house in the village in its original majesty, ghosts or no.

It happened here, news junkies.

Air Force Maj. Kevin Joseph Reilly Sr., formerly of Montauk, died on Sept. 16 in San Diego, where he had moved in March. He was 77.

Darlene Marie Lancaster, a former deputy East Hampton Town clerk and member of the Montauk Fire Department’s Ladies Auxiliary, died at home in Montauk on Oct. 16. She was 76.

Rabbi Josh Franklin will be leaving the Jewish Center of the Hamptons when his contract concludes in May, after nine years in the position. 

Jerry P. Keeler of Springs died on Oct. 6 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. He was 86.

A dog had been barking on and off in a fenced-in backyard for four days, a Springs-Fireplace Road neighbor reported on the night of Oct.15, adding that the house appeared to be empty and abandoned. Police went to the property and found a large black-and-white husky, “whimpering and shivering.”