After watching the devastation wrought by the wildfires raging through Los Angeles County, three Sag Harbor Elementary School students spearheaded a read-a-thon to raise money to buy books for children who lost their schools and, in many cases, homes to the Eaton fire. It brought in close to $15,000.

The Peconic Estuary Partnership, which was to receive $2.7 million in federal funding toward projects that include a $200,000 stormwater mitigation effort in Sag Harbor and $100,000 of wetlands work in Southampton, is now unsure if that funding will be available following an executive order by the Trump administration that froze billions in federal grants.

East Hampton school officials have reached a new five-year tuition agreement with districts in Montauk, Springs, and Amagansett allowing them to send students to East Hampton schools after they age out of their home districts.

A tree once grew in East Hampton. A big tree. A “perfectly healthy tree” that was likely “a couple of lifetimes” old, according to Dave Collins, the East Hampton Village superintendent of public works. Then, a homeowner decided it needed to go and in a spasm of governmental efficiency, it was promptly removed by the state. The tree seems to have fallen victim to a cross-jurisdictional communication gap.