Villages

East Hampton Village will host a World Cup finals outdoor watch party at Herrick Park on Sunday, July 19, along with World Cup-themed events across town the following week.

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church’s annual summer fair — its 140th! — happens on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum’s 10th annual lobster bake fund-raiser happens on Saturday from 6 to 8:30 p.m.

New signs were installed last week at the three lifeguarded East Hampton Village beaches: Main, Georgica, and Two Mile Hollow. They were designed by Emma Edwards, the 21-year-old owner of Dama Creative Solutions.

The Wings Over Haiti School in Ranquitte stands two stories high, with eight classrooms and 130 students who follow a STEM-based curriculum. That so much has been accomplished there while violence and evil stalk the land underscores the resilience of this unlikely human chain that yokes Haiti and the East End. 

This photograph shows four members of East Hampton High School’s student-run literary magazine, Beachplums, as they prepared to appear at Guild Hall.

Kevin Schaefer, crew leader in the Department of Public Works, was named the village’s first Employee of the Year at an organizational meeting on July 1.

Fireworks of yore and a 1951 check-in with the Pallottine Brothers’ North Haven retreat-slash-novitiate contrast mightily with the sordid Lizzie Grubman nightclub affair of 2001.

World Cup fever gave way to malaise Monday night when the United States Men’s National Soccer Team disappointed fans with a spectacularly bad 4-1 loss to Belgium.

Mickey the Wonder Dog, Lora Tucker’s 10-year-old Shih Tzu, is the happiest dog Ms. Tucker ever met. He’s a wonder for another reason, though, she said: Mickey is her service dog, helping her manage her anxiety and physical disability. 

Like a fever breaking after a long illness, new businesses have sprung up in and around 136 Main Street, a 1920s-era building neighboring the Mobil station at the entrance to the hamlet’s business district.

Firework displays may sparkle a little brighter this year as the South Fork kicks off celebrations for America’s 250th anniversary, with the return of Fourth of July pyrotechnics to East Hampton’s Main Beach topping the list. 

A composition for the new republic by a Suffolk County Militia member. You can learn more about the American Revolution here in a pop-up display starting July 8 at the East Hampton Library.

House wrens are not shy of humans and are open-minded about where they construct their nests. A pair recently moved into a birdhouse under the eaves of our garage and I’ve watched them with interest. Conclusion? These birds are personable, noisy, and hard-working. They’re also evil little control freaks.

Following the departure of Rabbi Josh Franklin from the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Rabbi Debra Stein, the center’s cantor, has assumed that role while the congregation continues its search for a permanent rabbi. 

The East Hampton Historical Society will reopen the extensively renovated Mulford Farmhouse, at 10 James Lane, on Saturday, coinciding with America’s observance of its 250th anniversary.

From early warnings about development pushing out the locals to a wingding at Black Jack Bouvier’s place.

Blessed with perfect weather, Elizabeth Tickle Douglass and Oliver Cornelius Nihan exchanged vows on June 20 in a field overlooking Hook Pond.

One of the worst early-season droughts in recent memory is hitting the East End just as a heat wave and July 4th crowds, expecting wall-to-wall greenery and willing to expend precious water resources to meet those expectations, converge on the area.

A severely decomposed humpback whale was discovered washed up at Ditch Plain in Montauk Friday morning. Removing it will be a challenge for East Hampton Town, which is working in concert with a number of agencies to develop a plan.

Peter Shilowich of East Hampton and Alyssa Pelosi of Grand Island, N.Y., were married on the shores of Georgica Pond on June 13. 

In a month when Elon Musk became the world’s first trillionaire by taking SpaceX, his satellite and space flight company, public, it’s worth asking, do you know what might happen if you were hit by a fleck of dried paint moving at 17,000 miles per hour? 

One day before his 90th birthday, Sherrill Dayton received an early gift in the form of a proclamation thanking him for many years of service to East Hampton Village. 

When Gen. Nathaniel Woodhull of Mastic wrote to Col. Josiah Smith of East Moriches about activating Long Island militias amid the threat of the British Navy off Manhattan.

The East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will take on Northwest Woods by foot, bike, and kayak or paddleboard this weekend. Saturday brings two choices at 10 a.m.: a three-mile walk in the Grace Estate Preserve loop or a 25-mile bike ride from Cedar Point County Park. On Sunday, it’ll be an Alewife Brook and Cedar Point paddle.

“The Glorious Fourth will be celebrated in good style throughout the Hamptons,” it was reported in these pages 100 years ago. “It will be observed here with the usual big fireworks display that night,” while “Hampton Bays will see Governor Al Smith, who comes to Canoe Place Inn every summer.”

A cocktail party for the Sag Harbor Whaling Museum, the Wainscott Strawberry Festival, and the East Hampton Historical Society’s annual membership party are just a few of the things to keep you entertained this weekend.

The golf world is totally focused on the 126th U.S. Open underway at Shinnecock Hills, and while the patrons watch, the event itself would not happen without the 3,000 volunteers who line the 7,440-yard course and expansive surroundings.

At Amagansett Square, fans of every level of dedication — from fair-weather to die-hard — came out to watch Game 5 of the N.B.A. finals on the big screen.

The Mary Nimmo Moran etching seen here features a type of landscape often depicted in her work: sand dunes in the foreground with detailed trees and in back a windmill, maybe the Gardiner Mill, which she would have been able to see near her rental property.