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An annual event eagerly anticipated by dog owners across the South Fork, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Stroll to the Sea is set for Saturday, with the designer Isaac Mizrahi once again acting as M.C.

Cole Brauer, East Hampton High School grad and the first American woman to sail solo nonstop around the world, has just released her first book, “First Light: Sailing Solo but Not Alone.”

ChangeHampton, which promotes sustainable landscaping practices on the East End, will celebrate participants in its Humanity for Habitat project at an East Hampton residence Friday at 11 a.m. 

Traffic to and from East Hampton Town Airport this past summer was up 8.3 percent over last year, the Wainscott C.A.C. was told Saturday, but “the big headline is helicopter traffic was up 26.9 percent versus 2025,” the developer of a flight tracking platform said. 

As seen in this Star archive photo, surfcasting at Montauk Point looked different then, but remains a draw. Here’s a bit of background.

Montauk’s 45th annual Fall Fest, a celebration of the season, will take place on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the downtown green. 

Southampton Town may have insisted on gray for the exterior of the Bridgehampton Target, but there was a sea of red at the store’s V.I.P. opening event on Tuesday, when the retail giant rolled out an actual red carpet for red-shirted employees and their guests before opening the registers for the first time at 5 p.m. 

In 1951, a veteran Railway Express man retires. In 1976, a professor suggests wind power over nukes. And more from our deep reserves of news coverage.

The D.E.C. has confirmed the presence on the East End of epizootic hemorrhagic disease in deer. At the same time, East Hampton Town is considering a pilot program to hire professional hunters to cull 100 deer in Springs.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons is calling on the Hamptons International Film Festival to cancel the screening of a documentary by Israeli filmmakers that the festival’s guide describes as detailing “the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” 

Eighteen senior citizens over age 90 were honored by East Hampton Town with a proclamation at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett in a celebration of the town nutrition program’s 52nd year.

This guide, with a cover featuring paintings by Eric Fischl, is from the first annual Hamptons International Film Festival here. Here’s a quick story of its start.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ Largest Clam Contest will now be held on Saturday, Oct. 10, from noon to 3 p.m. Would-be contestants can begin harvesting on Oct. 3.

The Montauk Historical Society has appointed David Bunn Martine, an artist who ran the Shinnecock Museum for 20 years, as director of its Montaukett Indian Museum, which is on the grounds of Second House.

This year’s SpringsFest, a benefit for Heart of Springs, will take place on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Parsons Blacksmith Shop, with performances by three local bands, a craft fair with 15 local vendors, refreshments, yard games, raffles, a blacksmith demonstration, and a history lesson from Hugh King, the town historian.

The Bridgehampton Target, set to open in the space long occupied by Kmart, is the smallest of seven Targets opening across the country in October, but at about 90,000 square feet it will be the largest retail store east of Riverhead.

Reaching far enough back to reference horse and wagon, and lo and behold, in 2001 three days of northeast winds wreaked shoreline havoc.

Vincent Waddey Vigorita and Victoria Marilyn Schlaepfer of Park City, Utah, were married on Sept. 12 at the Roundtree in Amagansett.

The antifungal pesticide Broadform, previously banned by the D.E.C., has been found to be effective against beech leaf disease in a far lower dose. Arbortech, a fungicide that is injected rather than sprayed, has also shown some effectiveness with less of an environmental impact.

ChangeHampton will host a Bio-Blitz, a citizen-scientist training initiative at the Community Pollinator Garden and Native Grassland Meadows on the East Hampton Town Hall campus. 

Hamptons Whodunit, the festival that brings mystery and thriller fiction authors as well as true crime experts to East Hampton Village each spring, is expanding from its local origins with the first true crime weekend in Savannah, Ga. 

The lengthy, arduous, but money-saving effort to preserve the old Napeague lifesaving station, still in use at Star Island.

Never before, and never again, will there be such an opportune but fast-fading moment, Sylvia Earle said at Guild Hall, to reverse or slow the trends in biodiversity loss and changes to the atmosphere and oceans.

Lucia (LuLu) Lee and Mack Dowdall were married on Saturday at the Mulford Farm in East Hampton, with Mark Toubin officiating. A reception followed at their house in East Hampton.

Nearly 60 years ago, a halcyon family outing turned into in unforgettable experience when a mysterious glowing craft suddenly appeared overhead, hovering in eerie silence before vanishing over the horizon without a trace, leaving a stunned family convinced they had witnessed something not of this world. 

History runs deep here, and The Star has been there to record it.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows a two-horse-powered threshing machine at the Water Mill farm of Charles E. Halsey in 1897. On Saturday, a panel discussion, “Returning to Our Roots: East Hampton’s New Farms,” comes to the library.

A reliable cellphone signal is no longer a convenience but a necessity, and during summer months residents say it’s nearly impossible to access service in some areas because of increased strain on networks.

Yom Kippur will be observed with services in East Hampton and Sag Harbor beginning on Sunday evening.

From the other Winston Churchill to 1926 astonishment that someone, anyone, overwintered here.