A marathon story-shaping Freedom Forum at Stony Brook University on Saturday is dedicated to the memory of Marcelo Lucero, the Ecuadorean immigrant who was stabbed to death in Patchogue in 2008.

Time for gathering swallows to twitter in the skies, and yet all’s not melancholy; there’s a spring in my step even as winter, inevitably, is coming on.

Several East End entrepreneurs will vie for a $50,000 investment in their businesses on Saturday in the final round of a local “Shark Tank”-like venture competition.

Thinking about the passage of time coupled with the start of the school year highlights how important it is to create a plan for saving for your child’s or grandchild’s education. 

The next East Hampton Chamber of Commerce meeting will feature a WordHampton presentation on the right and wrong ways to use social media.

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The composition of the East Hampton Town Board will be unchanged for at least two more years, as Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Councilwoman Sylvia Overby, and Councilman David Lys cruised to re-election.

Jay Schneiderman won a third term as the Southampton Town Supervisor, fending off two challengers, and while only one of his running mates won election, the supervisor will continue to enjoy a Democratic majority on the town board. 

East Hampton High School’s girls volleyball team, after playing a bit ner­vously in the first set here last week, which they lost 25-17, cruised the rest of the way against Half Hollow Hills West, winning in four. “Everybody played well,” Alex Choi, the team’s coach, said, “it was a good match.”

James Bradley, an eighth grader who played number-one on East Hampton High School’s young golf team this fall, “was three shots shy of making all-county” as a result of the 86-83-169 he shot in the recent Suffolk County individual tournament at Rock Hill in Manorville.

Twenty mixed teams of men and women vied outside the Montauk Brewery Saturday in the Old Montauk Athletic Club’s Brewathlon, a relay race comprising a 5,000-meter rowing machine leg, a 7-mile bike, a 3.1-mile run, and a 2,500-meter row.

Anthony Daunt ran seven marathons in seven days on the South Fork between Oct. 19 and Oct. 25, raising close to $14,000 through a GoFundMe account on behalf of a relative who had recently undergone a breast cancer operation.

A javyee football wrap-up, Bridgehampton’s Carl Johnson is honored, and Bonac’s Evan Masi was 12th in the county at Sunken Meadow last week.

The cross-country teams hit the state qualifier at Sunken Meadow Friday, while Bonac boys volleyball hosts Hauppauge in the playoffs. Sunday brings the Dock Race out in Montauk.

In 2018 the California Building Codes Commission approved a first-of-its-kind state law that requires almost all new houses to be solarized beginning Jan. 1, 2020. The building trades group says this will increase the cost of building a new home by $10,000. On the other hand, it will almost eliminate the expenditure of a considerable amount of money each year to electrically power a house through the burning of fossil fuels.

A Chowdah Chowdown, featuring soups from Stuart's Seafood, Smokin' Wolf BBQ, Peter Ambrose, the Clubhouse, Breadzilla, Salt, and others, is planned for Saturday, Nov. 9, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Springs Tavern.

The word “very” just seems to go with Ralph Lauren. The way his citrus-hued puffa jackets just seem to go with all that green-and-blue tartan that is his trademark.

After years of discussion, restoration, and reconstruction, the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio, open to the public for two seasons, is still not finished, but it is well on its way.

Louis Begley wraps up his Jack Dana crime novel series in the most gruesome way imaginable.