Though his name does not appear anywhere on the EH Fusion Party ballot line, David Gruber, a former Democratic Committee chairman running for East Hampton Town supervisor, is by far the splinter group’s largest supporter.

New ideas and new management will birth a new culture at LTV, said Michael Clark, the public-access broadcaster’s new executive director.

Waters under jurisdiction of the East Hampton Town Trustees will open for scalloping on Nov. 10, the governing body agreed on Friday.

Only one drunken-driving arrest was made over the course of the last week. East Hampton Town police charged Jose R. Llivisaca-Nieves, 45, who lives in the town, on Sunday during a routine traffic stop.

A motorcyclist escaped serious injury Sunday morning after a 91-year-old driver failed to yield the right of way at an Amagansett intersection.

Students at the Sagaponack and Wainscott Schools learned last week that when two small schoolhouses go on one field trip together, it adds up to tons of fun.

Springs School officials put families on guard this week about a website called Omegle, which connects internet users to strangers for the purpose of anonymous chatting.

David Talmage, a candidate for East Hampton Town trustee, has invited the public to meet him and his fellow candidates of the EH Fusion Party on Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Talmage homestead, 869 Springs-Fireplace Road in Springs. “Clams, chowder, chili, chatter, and cheer” will be served, according to a campaign flier.

Two federally mandated programs requiring village employees in the Department of Public Works to receive training on safe handling of hazardous chemicals and on responding to emergencies involving hazardous materials were adopted by the East Hampton Village Board on Friday.

Instead of buying more plastic Halloween decorations, how about making them from recycled materials? Families can do just that at a workshop on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton. Advance registration is required.

Police across the South Fork will be collecting unused and expired prescription medications on Saturday, as part of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. 

East Hampton Town police will be at Town Hall on Pantigo Road from 10 a.m to 2 p.m.

Police were called to check on a man sleeping in his vehicle on Dunemere Lane on Saturday morning around 10:20. As it turned out, the 57-year-old man was just catching some shut-eye while waiting to pick up an 11 a.m. fare on Old Beach Lane.

Gary L. Babin, who grew up in Montauk and went to East Hampton High School, died at home in Smyrna, Del., on Sept. 27. He was 71 and had been diagnosed with mesothelioma in April.

Albert Edward Bevan of Shelter Island, a former guidance counselor at East Hampton High School, died of complications from pneumonia on Oct. 13 at Stony Brook University Hospital. He was 89.

For waterfront property owners and upland town residents alike, participation in this and upcoming sessions should be a priority.

One of the surest ways to instantly tell if someone was born and bred out here is to note how he or she refers to the neck of land between Accabonac Creek and Three Mile Harbor.

The pleasure of singing, for me, has been greatly magnified over the years by my involvement with choral groups. I sang with the chorus at the Church of the Heavenly Rest on Fifth Avenue after college, but when I married and moved to East Hampton back in the 1960s, I never imagined I would find a similarly excellent group here.

Tis the season, as the water cools rapidly, that many minds, around here anyway, turn to scallops. New York State will allow the start of harvesting from its waters on Nov. 4; town waters will open on Nov. 10, a Sunday. How good the take will be remains to be seen. I have my doubts.

It’s occurred to me that I’ve met (and written about) one Kurd in my life, 23 years ago, and while the situation of his people, mountain livestock herders, was then dire, squeezed as he said they were by five powers, the United States being one, it could well be even more so now, now that Trump has hung them out to dry — the Kurds, as staunch an ally as one could hope for when it comes to fighting, who did a lot of heavy lifting when it came to defeating ISIS.

I doubt Roy was thinking “last time” on Jan. 2, 2010, as he walked down the driveway of the Montauk house where we had shared 36 years of summers and weekends. But that’s just the thing about the last time: Plans don’t matter.