East Hampton Town has filed an appeal of the May 16 temporary restraining order granted to plaintiffs who sued to prevent the planned May 17 closure of East Hampton Airport and its reopening 33 hours later as a private airport with new restrictions.

East Hampton Village’s Tuesday night Main Beach concerts, an instant hit in their inaugural season last year, will be back for the summer this week, with reggae by Winston Irie kicking off the series.

In honor of the June 23rd birthday of Alan Turing, the “father of modern computer science,” this week we feature a portrait of Thomas L. Collins (1921-2011), East Hampton’s own code-breaking computer specialist.

Simon Perchik of Springs, “one of the best-kept secrets in contemporary American poetry,” died of Covid-19 on June 14. He was 98.