​​​​​​​Fran Castan, a past Long Island Poet of the Year who lived in Springs for many years, has won the United Kingdom's Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine.

While turnout was low almost across the board, the vast majority of voters in all but one local school district gave their stamp of approval to their districts' budgets on Tuesday. The Bridgehampton School District fell just short of the 60-percent supermajority of voter approval it needed to pass an over-the-tax-cap budget proposal of $20.66 million, but other districts — including East Hampton, Montauk, and Amagansett — saw budgets pass with more than 80 percent voter approval.

East Hampton Town is asking residents to weigh in on the preliminary redesign of the Montauk skate park via an online survey. Conceptual designs by Pivot Custom aim to reconfigure the park to appeal to boarders of all ages.

Fearlessness and self-confidence have informed Toby Molenaar's long career as a photojournalist, filmmaker, and writer whose work took her to India, Brazil, Afghanistan, the western Sahara, Lapland, Kenya, Mongolia, and Uzbekistan, among dozens of other far-flung locations. “I was involved in many situations where people said, ‘No, you can’t do that.’ I thought, who says I can’t?"