Reports of electrical outages from Montauk to Wainscott, and all the way up through Shelter Island and the North Fork, rolled in on Thursday beginning shortly after 10 a.m.

For Karen Theiss the job of school nurse in Montauk has always been about creating a safe environment for children. “It’s not just fixing,” she said by phone last week, “it’s making better.” Ms. Theiss will retire from her longtime position at the end of June.

The nonprofit advocacy group led a workshop for tenants at the East Hampton Village manufactured home community on Oakview Highway this week so residents can advocate for themselves "to make sure it’s healthier, safer, that you’re able to be in a place that has good roads, regular electric, heat, septic, water,” Minerva Perez, OLA’s executive director, said.

For Eagle Boat 17, thick Atlantic fog off East Hampton spelled disaster on May 19, 1922, as it was en route from the naval base at Norfolk, Va., to New London, Conn.