A microscopic wormlike creature is rapidly killing American and European beech trees on the East End, and there is not much to be done about it. Beech leaf disease appears to have started in the United States in Ohio sometime before 2012. By 2019, it was on Long Island.

East Hampton's first annual Pride parade took place on Saturday and it was a joyous, color-popping celebration of freedom and equality that attracted members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, their allies, clergy, local politicians, storekeepers, well-wishers, the young, the old, and the curious.

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of 10 bills aimed at reducing gun violence on Monday. Her key challenger, Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District, said at a campaign event last month that a raft of laws regulating possession of guns should be overturned.

By all accounts, the highly savored scallop is very much imperiled. But can the popular bivalve, which lives for upward of 22 months, be saved?