After a child and a counselor tested positive for Covid-19, the Hayground Camp in Bridgehampton closed this week out of an abundance of caution, Doug Weitz, the camp's director, confirmed Tuesday.

A law that will require East Hampton Village residents to install low-nitrogen septic systems when conventional systems fail was passed by the village board at a meeting on Friday. The law will take effect in a few weeks, after being filed with New York's secretary of state.

This newspaper clipping from the Aug. 4, 1977, East Hampton Star advertises the upcoming Fisherman's Fair at Ashawagh Hall, benefiting the Springs Improvement Society. The ad is from the Springs Historical Society Archive.

A dozen or so Springs residents, along with the hamlet's board of fire commissioners and attorneys for various property owners, protested to the East Hampton Town Board Tuesday over its plan to site a 185-foot monopole for emergency and personal wireless communications in a residential area.