The 847 participants in the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s 3 and 6-mile races around Montauk’s Fort Pond on Thanksgiving Day constituted a record. That was the good news.

East Hampton High’s boys basketball team scrimmaged impressively twice last week, while the wrestling squad will have 22 competitors on the mats at the Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament here Saturday.

Cami Hatch, an East Hampton High School junior, swam close to her best time in the 100-yard freestyle at last week’s state girls swimming meet, and showed "a level of mental toughness and maturity beyond her years," her coach said.

The other night, I came across my first fishing logbook, started back in 1978, in which I began to inscribe my saltwater exploits when I was 15 years old. Back then I considered it a chore to take time to make notations of success or failure in my fishing excursions and wondered how it would ultimately serve me. But now I finally know.