The Montauk Seafood Festival returns on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. on the downtown green.

Eighteen months after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that “Today, at long last, we flip the switch and turn on the future,” the Trump administration is systematically switching that future off in favor of the past, in the form of fossil-fuel energy.

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, who is rumored to be mulling a 2026 run for East Hampton Town supervisor, said last week that he had not “made a final decision” and won’t do so until after the election this November. Supervisor Kathee-Burke Gonzalez, a Democrat, is running unopposed on this year’s ballot. When she wins, however, it will be only for a one-year term because of a change in the state election calendar.

The East Hampton Town Board has negotiated “important provisions” in connection with a lease renewal for the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been closed for almost three years and remains the subject of litigation brought by several residents who say bullets fired from the club have hit their houses.