“This has been a longtime problem on the South Fork,” Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. said in reference to a universal truth about Long Island: that gas prices generally get higher the farther east you go. The change in gas prices between UpIsland and the South Fork can be startling, and the change from just Southampton to Montauk even more so.

On Sept. 6, 1898, Col. Theodore Roosevelt paid a visit to the Montauk Lighthouse, signing this guestbook owned by Capt. J.G. Scott, the Lighthouse keeper.

“For me, it was one of the most challenging — grueling at parts — but challenging things I’ve ever done. And yet, it was one of the most exhilarating and euphoric when it was over,” Bennett Schmidt of East Hampton said of his participation in the 434-mile Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI.

John Wanag, who ran MTK Custom Rods and Repair, died of cardiac arrest at home in Springs last Thursday. He was 64.