The Watermill Center’s Viewpoints lecture series, which draws speakers from diverse disciplines to discuss ideas and issues important to contemporary discourse, will launch next Thursday with Penny Arcade.

Dining, creativity, surfing, and roots music are on Guild Hall’s cultural menu this week, starting Sunday morning, when “Stirring the Pot,” a series of culinary-centric conversations, will feature Tim and Nina Zagat, who founded the Zagat Survey 40 years ago. Initially a collection of reviews of New York City restaurants by diners, the survey at its height included 70 cities. In 2011, Google acquired it for $125 million.

Studio tours, Ann Temkin talk, Claude Lawrence at Keyes, new group at Grain Surfboards, and more

New environmental film festival in Montauk, Laurie Anderson at Ross School, a drama set at Camp Hero, and more

A three-year study of tick infections in Suffolk County's 10 townships showed them to be consistent with ranges of infection rates in New York State, county officials announced Monday.

The man, who was in his 50s, had been fishing off Montauk Point on a boat based in Niantic, Conn.

 A Sag Harbor man was arrested late Saturday night after crashing a boat into a North Haven bulkhead, injuring himself and two passengers.

In its latest round of water testing results for the week of July 15, Concerned Citizens of Montauk identified East Creek at the south end of Lake Montauk as an area of serious concern. Water sampled there showed the highest levels of the bacteria enterococcus of any of the more than two dozen sites monitored by C.C.O.M.

The Bridgehampton Carnival, which raises money for affordable housing in the Town of Southampton, starts Friday — it was supposed to begin on Thursday, but rain seems to have delayed the opening — and runs through Sunday, returning from July 24 through July 27.

Tickets have gone on sale for the 15th annual East Hampton Library Authors Night on Aug. 10 starting at 5 p.m. under a tent in Amagansett.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Thursday that Sunrise Wind, a joint venture of the Danish energy company Orsted and the Connecticut company Eversource, and Empire Wind, proposed by the Norwegian company Equinor, have each been awarded contracts to develop offshore wind farms — one of them some 30 miles east of Montauk.

Following reports that the Trump's administration was planning raids across the country to arrest undocumented immigrants, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Office for New Americans offered tips earlier this week on what to do if federal immigration enforcement authorities arrive at people's homes or workplaces or approach them in public.

A Greenlawn man was charged with a felony after throwing a cement block through the windshield and rear window of a 2018 Tesla that was parked at a rental house on Big Reed Path in Montauk on Saturday night, East Hampton Town police said.

After several beachgoers attempted to free a humpback whale entangled in a fishing net off Town Line Beach in Sagaponack on Monday, the whale, which had been trapped for hours 75 feet from shore, ultimately freed itself.

The mound of earth behind the Bridgehampton School is one of the biggest John Daniels has seen in his lifetime on the East End.

Some 10 feet tall and four or five times as long, it’s not just any old pile of dirt. It is Bridgehampton loam, and it might as well be a pile of gold.

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.