Paul J. Muñoz was trying to relax while recovering from hernia surgery at home in Springs recently when all he could hear was the sound of leaf blowers and mowers. “It was very loud and annoying. I thought there’s got to be a better way.”

Molly Cuevas, a former all-American field hockey player at Adelphi, finished the last leg of her 3,000-plus-mile cross-country fund-raising run at around 10 a.m. Saturday morning at the Circle in Montauk, where she was greeted by a crowd of about 50.

Both of East Hampton’s traveling all-star baseball teams were on a good footing as of Sunday, with the 11-12s heading out of pool play looking especially strong and the 9-10s pretty good.