“Soccer, wrestling, football, no matter which of those sports you play, rugby is totally addictive — it’s called the rugby bug,” Kevin Bunce Jr. said.

Drew Harvey of Sag Harbor and his friend Payton Dwight cycled 3,400 across the country to raise money to build pull-up and parallel bar fitness stations under the banner of the Dawgpatch Bandits, a group founded in reaction to the 2016 overdose death of a Sag Harbor teacher, coach, lifeguard, and triathlete.

Representative Lee Zeldin of New York's First Congressional District is the Republican Party's presumptive nominee for governor of New York, following the state party's straw poll of county Republican committees last week. The congressman, who declared his candidacy in April, won more than 85 percent of the vote.

A public hearing on a proposed code amendment that would prohibit trucks greater than nine tons from a stretch of Accabonac Road in East Hampton drew three speakers urging its adoption, and one opposing it, as the East Hampton Town Board met in person for the first time in 16 months last Thursday.