An East Hampton Town official and a representative of Concerned Citizens of Montauk both confirmed this week that they have received reports of foul odors at Ditch Plain and people experiencing skin, eye, and sinus irritation after taking a dip in the water there in the last two to three weeks.

On its mission to transform an empty space in Montauk into a cultural center and community pool, representatives of the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation said this week that they have revamped their plans.

The agency has identified several "deficiencies" — primarily regarding the effect on a variety of fish species — in the South Fork Wind Farm transmission cable plan.

“Airports, in particular, are very important refuges because of their continued grassland maintenance, and their exclusion of people and deer,” said Marguerite Wolffsohn, East Hampton Town’s planning director, and the town’s airport, “is a refuge for native plants.”

The Town of Southampton is making significant progress on a range of sustainability initiatives to protect the environment, members of the town’s sustainability advisory committee told the town board last Thursday.

From notebooks and pencils to binders and scientific calculators, the Montauk School’s got all school supplies covered this coming school year.

A 20-year-old was arrested on a felony assault charge after stabbing his mother following a birthday party at their house in Springs on July 7, East Hampton Town Justice Court records show.

This year the competition has been named the Mike Diveris Battle of Southampton in honor of one of the founding fathers of the town lifeguard program, who died on June 17 at the age of 72. 

Mumford & Sons, called “one of the most successful acts to come out of the 21st century’s English folk revival,” will give an invitation-only performance at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Aug. 25 to benefit USA Warrior Stories.

At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, an award-winning dance ensemble from the Edge School of the Arts in Queens will perform classical ballet, jazz, African, tap, and hip-hop selections in a family program on Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.

An under-age man was arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge after flipping the Honda Odyssey he was driving in Amagansett on Friday night.

Someone stole an antique copper apple-butter kettle, weighing about 60 pounds and measuring 3 by 3 feet, from a Bluff Road property between June 21 at 4:30 p.m. and June 30 at 9:30 a.m. It is worth approximately $800. Police notified local antiques stores and told proprietors to keep an eye out for it.

Albert James Catozzi of Springs, a longtime clerk at the East Hampton Post Office, died on July 8 of complications of multiple myeloma at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Liliane M. Chapin, a painter who had lived in East Hampton for more than 20 years, died of heart failure on July 7 at South County Hospital in South Kingstown, R.I.

Mildred Doughty Granitz, a former director of publicity at Guild Hall, died at home in East Hampton on June 21. She was 98.

A head-on collision involving a pool company truck injured five people and shut down a portion of Noyac Road in North Sea during rush hour on Thursday afternoon. 

Visiting hours for Barbara Elizabeth Curran, formerly of Wainscott, who died on Sunday in Ocean Breeze, Fla., will be held at the Beecher Flook’s Funeral Home in Pleasantville, N.Y., on Tuesday from 2 to 5 p.m.

A celebration and remembrance of the life of Raymond Marisette, known as Cheech, who died on July 21, 2018, will take place on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Dock restaurant in Montauk. His ashes will be spread on the roots of a tree that will be planted, and there will be a Budweiser toast in his honor.

The National Parks Service, the federal agency that oversees the preservation of historic structures and districts, last week added the Sag Harbor communities of Sag Harbor Hills, Azurest, and Ninevah Subdivisions (known as SANS) to the National Register of Historic Places.

The 15th annual Soldier Ride the Hamptons will return to the South Fork on Saturday with a community bike ride to benefit the Wounded Warrior Project. Riders will bike alongside wounded veterans on a 25.6-mile route that starts and finishes at Amagansett Farm and passed through Amagansett and East Hampton Village on the way to Sag Harbor.