Summer crushes, wedding flings, and academic rivals. These are the tropes in this trio of young adult romance books that are perfect for reading on a fine spring day.

A strong turnout from East Hampton residents dubious about plans to build affordable housing in their neighborhoods has at least temporarily derailed the town’s efforts to purchase four parcels of land from Suffolk County.

In his new book, “The Angry Skies: A Physician’s Journey Into Cambodia’s Heart of Darkness,” Dr. Blake Kerr writes of his six trips to Cambodia, traveling to Khmer Rouge enclaves, meeting some of the architects of the genocide, and gathering information from victims and perpetrators of the atrocities there.

A theme of “Keep Calm and Carry On” may seem incongruous with the barrage of dire environmental statistics, but the 2025 State of the Bays report on Long Island’s waterways, delivered by Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, did include some encouraging though smaller-scale developments.