Coronavirus

The organizers of a July 25 Chainsmokers concert have been slapped with a single citation covering multiple violations of town ordinances.

Ever since shelter-in-place orders took effect, post offices have been inundated with packages and mail at record-breaking volumes, and even as the economy has reopened, volume remains high. In Montauk, the post office has seen package volume double since the start of summer, keeping customers waiting weeks for critical deliveries.

The impact of Covid-19 on all walks of life includes big changes for those that walk on all fours and the people who care for them.

South Fork school district officials have been working nonstop over the last several weeks to determine reopening plans, which were due in to the state by July 31, but regardless of the details, all of the plans may as well have a big asterisk on the first page, because Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is expected to make a big school-related announcement Friday.

"Should I send my kids back to school this fall?"

Of all the Covid-19 questions that I'm asked as a family medicine physician, this is the hardest to answer.

The Sagaponack School has received so many new student inquiries over the last several weeks that the chief school administrator is searching for extra space to supplement the Little Red Schoolhouse's own classrooms.

For those who have been using the pandemic as an excuse to avoid going to the dentist, Dr. David Mambrino, an owner of the East Hampton Dental Group, has a message: "I want people to know that it's safe."

East Hampton Village's ocean beaches are closed to swimming Friday after a shark sighting off Georgica Beach, and East Hampton Town officials have warned prospective beachgoers that popular ocean beach parking lots could again be closed this weekend as they continue to limit beach capacity to comply with Covid-19 safety regulations.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Friday announced that for the first time since March 8, it has no new, suspected, or confirmed Covid-19 patients.

On a normal Monday in a normal July, the Quinipet Camp and Retreat Center on Shelter Island would be buzzing with activity, its lodgings, spread out over 11 buildings on 25 acres, filled with sleepaway campers newly arrived for a week of technology-free summer fun, complete with multimillion-dollar views of Peconic Bay. Now those spectacular views are being offered for a not-so-hefty price tag to families looking for a different sort of retreat.

Seven in 10 New York State voters believe that recovery from the coronavirus pandemic presents an opportunity to realign our relationship with the natural world and plan for future challenges including climate change, according to the Nature Conservancy, which surveyed 640 randomly selected likely voters in June on a range of environmental issues.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called a drive-in concert held Saturday in Bridgehampton "a gross violation of common sense," while Southampton Town officials responded to a state inquiry into the event by saying they were conducting their own investigation.