The Springs School District got a financial boost from New York State this week when Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. stopped by the school to present a check for an extra $50,000 from state coffers.     

After auditors said late last year that the Sag Harbor School District had missed out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in New York State funding for summer special education programs, district administrators came to a different conclusion: They had overestimated the amount of money they were due to collect.   

The East Hampton School District took its first step this week toward installing solar panels and other energy-efficiency upgrades, having recently received the go-ahead from the State Education Department.     

Children’s Fair     

In any inventory of the most influential documentary filmmakers, certain names inevitably appear: Dziga Vertov, Robert Flaherty, Marcel Ophuls, Frederick Wiseman, Michael Apted, Errol Morris, Albert and David Maysles, and the Maysles’ contemporary and onetime associate, D.A. Pennebaker.     

A funeral Mass for Daniel Otto will be said on Saturday at noon at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church in East Hampton.

Ines Angelica Wildner-Fox, a former teacher at the Montauk School who started the school’s English as a foreign language program and co-founded the hamlet’s food pantry, died of pulmonary fibrosis on July 17 at Hope Hospice in Lehigh Acres, Fla.     

The attorney for Tenia Campbell of Medford, who is accused of killing her twin toddlers in Montauk in June, has formally submitted notice that he is working on a psychiatric defense.

An officer on foot patrol heard yelling and saw a man sitting in his car with the interior lights on and the door open. Another officer stopped a car without headlights on. Two felony cocaine possession charges followed.     

Just after Friday midnight, an East Hampton Town police officer arrested an alleged drunken driver whose brand-new Mercedes had been clocked at 91 miles per hour on Town Lane in East Hampton, three times the 30 m.p.h. limit there.   

At about 7 a.m. on July 30, a beachgoer spotted some curious debris in the water at Main Beach, and called police, saying it looked like “safety markings” attached to “something floating in the water.” Police used binoculars and saw it was a cluster of balloons.

Art workshops, puppet shows, movies, and performances for the kids and families.

The Springs Improvement Society’s 87th annual Fisherman’s Fair will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ashawagh Hall grounds, with a children’s area for games and crafts, food and craft vendors, a restaurant raffle, live music, and, inside the hall, the Artists of the Springs invitational exhibition, which will be on view through Sunday.     

Jhony Chumi-Rodas, 30, died on Sunday night when his Dodge Ram pickup truck hit a traffic light stanchion on Route 24, Southampton Town police said. 

Services will be held on Saturday for Jhony Chumi-Rodas, who died in a car crash in Flanders on Sunday night.

Two sides are circling each other in regard to a new, consolidated town shellfish hatchery off Gann Road at Three Mile Harbor. Untangling this will help guide what has been an excessively contentious debate toward an amicable resolution.

It seems somehow crazy that Donald Trump is to arrive on the East End tomorrow for a fund-raiser, after two mass shootings within hours of each other, as if nothing were wrong.

Like many of you, I have been glued to television-news debates about mass shootings and what can, or should be, done to stop them. Gun control is a frequent topic as the contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination face the cameras. But my attention is drawn to my desk, where the focus is narrow and a book called “Semicolon” by Cecelia Watson sits alongside one I have mentioned before, Mary Morris’s amusing and astute “Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen.”

Over dinner on Sunday, the subject turned to sharks. Since it was the Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week blitz, this was not surprising.

Over the years I had received those familiar email requests from people asking me to be the conduit for money to be deposited in my account and sent elsewhere, and those obvious scams were always deleted. Why not this one?