Shoppers who came to Bridgehampton from near and far on Sunday to mark the closing of the retail giant’s last full-size store celebrated and mourned, recalling affordable clothing, first jobs, and a different era.

A trip in search of bay scallops with Harrison Tobi, an aquaculture specialist with the Cornell Cooperative Extension marine center in Southold, to examine the productivity, survivability, and density of the population both in the wild, and also those raised in plastic cages that were spawned at the center.

Amagansett residents weary of the long delay in repairing the impassable Cranberry Hole Road bridge were urged to take a few minutes at the computer and email someone who might actually help to speed the process along. 

Jeffrey Erickson was officially appointed chief of the East Hampton Village Police Department at Friday’s village board meeting, after a resolution to do so was unanimously passed by the board. He is the ninth chief of police since the position was created in 1920.