Marc Murphy, a noted chef and restaurateur, will stir the conversational pot at Guild Hall with Florence Fabricant, and the Grill at Ruschmeyers in Montauk has a new executive chef.

A brush fire along the north side of Montauk Highway on a remote stretch of Napeague was reported on Wednesday afternoon and burned an area roughly the size of a football field before being extinguished.

A special event, purportedly for an electric vehicle educational display in Herrick Park, went awry on July 9 and was promptly shut down by Marcos Baladron, the East Hampton Village administrator, after he fielded multiple complaints from residents about a General Motors “car dealership” at the park’s entrance.