The Montauk Chamber of Commerce and the Montauk Visitors Center will hold a Montauk Holiday market on the downtown green on Saturday from noon to 4:30 p.m. Santa will be there from 3 to 4 p.m.

Even though Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has the largest number of admitted Covid-19 patients it has seen in about two months — 11 people as of Tuesday afternoon, none in the intensive care unit — there is good news to be had, the hospital’s chief medical officer said this week.

The longstanding question of how to complete the upgrade of East Hampton Town’s emergency communications system moved forward on separate fronts on Tuesday when the town board agreed that the best spot to put temporary communications equipment appeared to be Maidstone Park.