The East Hampton Village Foundation will recognize the village’s first responders at a fund-raiser on Aug. 13 at Swifty’s, the restaurant at the Hedges Inn.

The pace at which Lenny Ackerman moves belies his 86 years. The prominent East End attorney writes a weekly column for The Mountain Messenger, has taken up painting, and has just published his fourth book.

This photograph from the C. Frank Dayton Photo Collection at the East Hampton Library shows the A.O. Jones Hardware Store at 51 Newtown Lane. Owned by Asa O. Jones (1857-1953), it later became East End Hardware and today is A.L.C., a clothing store.

Neighbors of a Beach Hampton couple who live at 183 Marine Boulevard in Amagansett made it known to the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on July 22 that they would be no happier living near a house 10 feet higher than it is now whether its roof is gabled or flat.