Democratic voters pushed back against East Hampton Reform Democrats' efforts to upend the Democratic Committee's picks for town justice and town trustee in Tuesday's primary, with Andrew Strong winning the justice nomination and Reform Democrats' choices trailing in the trustee race.

As the Montauk Historical Society looks ahead to two big projects at the Montauk Lighthouse — the $24 million rebuilding of the revetment protecting it from the ocean’s ravages and a tower renovation that could start as early as next year — a more modest renovation underway now is offering a glimpse of parts of one lighthouse structure not seen for nearly a century.

“It’s a rite of summer,” said Scott Barter as about 150 youngsters ages 9 through 15 gathered on “the mound” at Amagansett’s Indian Wells Beach Saturday morning, where they were welcomed by John Ryan Sr. and John Ryan Jr. to the 2019 junior lifeguard season.

Richie Daunt, the wiry, hard-punching fighter from Montauk, two for two in recent bouts, is looking forward to a regional tournament early next month. The winners are to advance to the nationals, whose winners, in turn, are to go on to the Olympic trials.

The postseason slate of District 36 Little League playoff games began last weekend, with good results insofar as East Hampton’s traveling all-star boys teams were concerned.

Molly Cuevas, 24, a former All-American field hockey player at Adelphi, can also say come Saturday that she is a cross-country runner, inasmuch as she will have run in the course of three months 3,000-plus miles from Santa Monica, Calif., to Montauk.

A look back at the baseball exploits of East Hampton's Ross Gload, plus the Potatohampton 10K follies.

The Little League tournament is here, plus plenty of slow-pitch in the coming week.

After months of eager anticipation, the black sea bass season in New York finally opened on Sunday. While anglers in New Jersey and Connecticut have been allowed to retain the popular fish as of May 15 and 19 respectively, folks in New York have had to sit on the sidelines while their nearby neighbors have enjoyed bountiful catches for over a month. To rub salt in the wound, Jersey anglers could keep 10 fish per day, while those in the Nutmeg State could retain five. A huge, if unfair, advantage.

On Sunday night at 8 o’clock I began watching out of my front window on Noyac Road in anticipation of the firefly show to begin. The first flash down low in the herbage at 8:46 started what would become a barrage of flares, 127 of which I tallied until 9, when I stopped. 

A visit to the home of Jeremy Grosvenor, Saskia Friedrich, and their son, Mamoun Friedrich-Grosvenor, 23, in northern Sagaponack provided an object lesson of sorts, specifically with respect to the behavioral trait of creativity. All three are artists, although there are distinct differences in how they think about art and characterize their practices.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc announced on Tuesday that PSEG Long Island will abandon a proposed site in Hither Woods for a new electrical substation and instead build it on a Long Island Power Authority-owned parcel on Shore Road in Montauk, near the site of the present facility.

Here is what I have learned from organizing a party long distance: Find your venue first if you can. Decide on a firm budget but be prepared to be flexible. Compile the guest list and pray that they will respond in a timely manner. Or at all.

A second annual benefit program for the Amagansett Life-Saving Station, “The Cozy Side of Beethoven: An Intimate Concert,” will be performed tomorrow, featuring some of the master’s well-loved favorites and some of his less-well-known vocal works.

A cancer diagnosis in the family was the impetus behind Joel Sartore's National Geographic Photo Ark, an ongoing effort to raise awareness of and discover solutions to some of the most pressing issues affecting wildlife and habitats by creating a photo archive of global diversity.

Those who were enthusiastic about the possibilities inherent in the restoration of the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio years ago will rejoice in the announcement of the exhibition “Thomas Moran Discovers the American West,” which will go on view there on Saturday, running through early November.

Have some Little Nipper signature cocktails, and break lumpia together, even better.

Poetic titles, thin washes of color inspired by J.M.W. Turner, and a playful use of collage all characterize Sally Egbert’s work, which will be on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs beginning Saturday.

In a booze-soaked Montauk share house one summer, the housemates were grouped into three categories, “the girls, the finance guys, and the gays.” At 27, John Glynn didn't fit into any of them. “Out East” is his story of coming out and growing up.

This year’s artist at the Dan Flavin Art Institute is Jacqueline Humphries, who divides her time between New York City and Southold. Her recent black light on fluorescent cast works are an expansion of the black light paintings she has been making since a 2005 fire in her studio caused her to rethink her practice.