The Montauk Library will be busy this week with programs both practical and fun. On Saturday, kids in second grade and up can drop by all day to personalize their composition books with supplies provided by the library.

AMAGANSETT LIBRARY
215 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3810
Grandparents Day reading circle, Sunday, 1:30 p.m. * Drop-in craft time, Mondays in September, 3:30 p.m.

The East Hampton Sons of the American Legion will dedicate a 9/11 memorial on the post’s grounds in Amagansett on Wednesday at 5 p.m.

John Carl Loewen, a former pastor of five United Methodist churches in Pennsylvania, died of heart failure on Aug. 11 at the Green Ridge Village senior citizens living community in Newville, Pa.

Kenneth J. Bialkin, one of the leading corporate lawyers of his generation and the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations from 1984 to 1986, during which time the conference was instrumental in winning freedom for Soviet Jews before the collapse of the Iron Curtain, died of a stroke on Aug. 23 in Manhattan.

Joan Black Bakos, a former East Hampton resident who loved gourmet cooking and had a long career with a restaurant publication, died of heart failure on Aug. 26 after a brief illness.

Catherine Mary Whelan-Foley died at home in Montauk with her family at her side on Tuesday. She was 57. The family will receive visitors at Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton tomorrow from 4 to 7 p.m. A Mass will be said at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk on Saturday at 10:30 a.m., with burial following at Fort Hill Cemetery.

It’s Harborfest weekend so Saturday and Sunday will be packed with activities. in Sag Harbor Village, including a crafts fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Marine Park, sidewalk sales from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the business district, and children’s games from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Long Wharf.

Classic aircraft, vintage cars, and modern jets will be on display at the East Hampton Aviation Association’s Just Plane Fun Day on Saturday, after having been moved to the rain date of Sunday temporarily, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at East Hampton Airport.

The Hamptons International Film Festival will screen Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" as its Friday Centerpiece film on Oct. 11. Several other films were also announced this week.

The artist Neke Carson has always defied convention and shifted art's shapes. His first drawing, dating from 1949, when he was 3, shows his mother screaming while spiders crawl up her dress toward her open mouth.

It seems only right to offer a tip of the cap to the professionals and volunteers who answer the call at any time of day or night even as the population of residents and day-trippers doubles and then doubles again then returns to normal after Labor Day.

A recent little-noticed report about East Hampton Town’s wastewater system upgrade program deserves wider attention. Produced by the town’s water quality advisory committee, the report offered five ways to increase the rate at which property owners are signing on.

How awful it is to have to hold a collective breath this week as our children, and grandchildren, begin a new school year. How unnerving that gun violence has caused us to doubt the lyrics that our “country ’tis of thee” is still a “sweet land of liberty.”

There was scarcely anyone else around when I fell asleep on the ocean beach late Labor Day afternoon. I had left my pickup truck in the parking lot and walked to the west to look for whales and meditate a bit. The town lifeguards, with no one to keep and eye on, lazed around under a plastic shelter and took turns in the stand, looking out at nothing much at all. Two people and a dog were in the distance.

Just when I thought I had seen every last obscenity the 2019 Hamptons summer scene had to offer, things took a turn for the strange. On an afternoon walk down Job’s Lane in Southampton on a recent afternoon, I was greeted by a number of “keep out” and “no trespassing” signs as I approached my favorite people-watching spot.

Labor Day weekend is always bittersweet.

I should probably have my head examined, for I still like to watch football — perhaps all the more so because, aside from wearing pads in the seventh grade (though I don’t think we played any games) and aside from some touch football (I always wanted to be an end, not a blocker), I never played it.

Gansett Green Manor, a 14-room hotel on Main Street in Amagansett, was purchased for $6.175 million in July by WTI, a private investment firm based in California.

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