Months ago, when a friend and I realized we were the same age and our birthdays were only a day or two apart, we agreed to celebrate together this year. Now, however, with our natal days upon us, I say “fuhgeddaboudit.”

It may be too soon to crow, but the $13 home electric bill I received this week could be the start of a happy relationship between me and the new solar panel array on my Amagansett roof.

The Global Climate Strike, a weeklong demonstration that starts Sept. 20, offers a chance to reflect on ethical choices we can make to do what’s right for nature and animals while we can still make a difference.

The summer of peace and love was also a summer of war and incendiary strife, from which East Hampton, a “backwater” then, in which every now and then ripples of the great national issues of the day were felt, was at one remove.

Beatrice Alda and Jennifer Brooke, owners of the boutique hotel on Route 114 between East Hampton and Sag Harbor, announced Sept. 2 on Facebook that they have sold it. A bright blue graphic with “Thank You” in looping yellow letters bid the bungalows’ friends and fans goodbye.

The Shed, a women’s co-working space on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, will be closing on Oct. 1, its founders announced on social media last week. The business had originally opened last year as a weekly pop-up at Estia’s Little Kitchen.

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

Vote Early
East Hampton
September 12, 2019

Dear David,

Just a heads-up as we all start to plan our calendars: Starting this fall, New York voters will have the opportunity to vote early in New York’s general election.

Applications for Southampton Town affordable housing units at Sandy Hollow in Southampton and Speonk Commons are still being accepted, the town announced Wednesday.

For the first time in a long time East Hampton High’s boys and girls cross-country teams were front and center here on Sept. 10, running two loops around the high school against their Mount Sinai peers.

East Hampton High’s boys and girls volleyball teams enjoyed back-to-back wins here last Thursday and Friday, besting Center Moriches in the boys’ case and Miller Place in the girls’.

A century of sports car racing in Bridgehampton, on the roads and at the track, now the site of The Bridge golf club, was celebrated last weekend in a well-attended concours d’elegance show of vintage, antique, and classic autos at the Bridgehampton Museum.

Soccer is one of those games in which the better team often doesn’t win, as East Hampton’s girls and boys both saw in the past week at home.

Pickleball’s back at E.H. Indoor-Outdoor, with clinics, and the weekend of Sept. 28 offers long-distance races in Montauk and Southampton.

The first Amagansett Mile is Saturday, while Bonac J.V. football returns to action Monday, and there’s soccer, field hockey, and volleyball at home Tuesday.

Fishing this summer for various species of tuna, including albacore, yellowfin, bigeye, and bluefin, has been the best witnessed in many years, and it looks like it will continue well into the upcoming fall season.

Just a month ago nine dogs died from drinking pond water in New York City’s Central Park that was thick with blue-green algae, oops, I mean cyanobacteria, which is not actually algae at all.

Strong-Cuevas’s studio is like a museum. Large-scale sculpture surrounds her house and a vast two-level indoor studio showcases more than five decades of work.

Explaining how the East End Special Players developed their newest production, Jacqui Leader, the group’s artistic director, said, “We try to work with the actors about what their real feelings are about their lives and what their dreams are.”

Here are some of the recipes from “Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume One” that were served at Almond.