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More than 100 people participated in the March March, a walk from the Montauk Lighthouse to Hampton Bays on Saturday, raising more than $5,000 for Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island.

Two former members of the Devon Yacht Cub and their spouses, ousted, they allege, over their outspoken opposition to the club’s redevelopment plans, have filed suit against Devon in New York County Supreme Court.

While his father is too old to be cured of his sickle cell anemia, except for gene therapy (approved in late 2023 and very expensive), Devansh Carty could be fully cured through a bone marrow transplant set to happen this spring.

This photograph from the East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection shows Sherrill Dayton and his friends celebrating his birthday around 1948 with a game of baseball at his house.

As a birder, I’ve long ignored Canada geese. Of course, that was a mistake. The trick has always been to just appreciate the thing in front of you, even if it’s a Canada goose, on its own terms, and not wish for it to be something other than what it is.

A Star-style blast from the past.

Tens of thousands of spectators are expected in Montauk on Sunday for the 64th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, and out front will be Tom Grenci Jr., former police precinct commander and fire chief.

This fire record, lent by the Fire Department to the Long Island Collection for digitization, gives us a glimpse into the early years of firefighting here.

East Hampton Bar Car, a cafe and wine bar, is to open at the Long Island Rail Road station in East Hampton, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the future establishment’s operator.

The next No Kings rally, part of the ever-growing movement protesting the Trump administration, will happen on Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside East Hampton Town Hall.

A budget crunch in Sag Harbor Village has officials looking to save money. One way could be by hiking the cost of resident parking stickers from $15 to $25.

From a meeting of the eminent Tiddlywink club to a fish-catching duel between a working Montauk vessel and a government survey dragger, dig into some deep history, won’t you?

On Saturday, March 28, the day of nationwide No Kings rallies protesting the Trump administration, pro-immigrant and anti-ICE activists will walk 40 miles from Montauk to Hampton Bays to raise money and awareness, with stops at Amagansett and Town Hall. Sign-up ends March 26.

Beginning of a great disaster: In 1976, when tick-borne illnesses were unfamiliar here, a Shelter Islander was laid low by one and it was mistakenly thought to be malaria. Plus more bad and sometimes good news ripped from our pages.

Hugh King, the town and village historian, will tell the story of East Hampton’s first performing arts venue on March 27 at 7 p.m. for the next Tom Twomey lecture at the library.

The East Hampton Methodist Church’s pastor, Kenny McQuiller, a cancer survivor himself, will be at the helm of a new cancer care ministry that the church is launching this week.

Scores of municipalities from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania have tightened enforcement and strengthened so-called pooper-scooper laws after the brown stuff, like, bloomed out of the melting snow, causing public outcry.

This photo shows the altar inside Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church as it appeared sometime between 1964 and 1975. Today, St. Philomena still looms large.

The famously brief Am O’Gansett Parade will begin Saturday at 12:01 p.m., led this year by Jim Lubetkin as grand marshal.

Montauk’s 64th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade, happening at noon on March 29, is free to all. Two popular pre-parade events are likely to sell out, however, so those interested have been advised to secure tickets.

Jennifer DiPretoro experienced coughing fits while on vacation in Madrid. A pulmonologist there told her she had lung cancer, and her low oxygen levels prevented her from flying home. She is now stranded with no health insurance.

A 1951 dance for servicemen from the base in Montauk, Dr. Valenti’s fight for a Napeague fish farm, and summertime house shares. Behold the past.

Approximately 600 dead Canada geese, believed to be victims of avian flu, have been removed from around Georgica Pond in the last two days and buried in the sand, said Jim Grimes, an East Hampton Town trustee.

An array of soups from local chefs will be available for tasting at Project Most’s much-anticipated annual fund-raiser on Sunday.

The name of the game in real estate marketing has always been print, signage, and Main Street storefronts showcasing the latest listings. While East Hampton Village still has about a dozen storefronts where potential buyers can swoon over photographs of what’s for sale, the marketing is shifting.

The story of the Mulfords, their extended family, and their James Lane homestead.

Rowdy Hall in Amagansett is celebrating 30 years in business by launching a 1 Percent for the East End Giving Campaign, in which the locally owned restaurant will donate 1 percent of its monthly revenue to a rotating local charity serving the East End throughout 2026.

Amagansett Main Street’s 1951 makeover, Montauk Youth’s 1976 “Happy Days” dance, and more.

Two important cultural venues in East Hampton Town, LongHouse Reserve and the Brooks-Park Arts and Nature Center, have suffered severe damage as a result of last week’s blizzard: the partial collapse of Buckminster Fuller’s iconic “Fly’s Eye Dome” at LongHouse and the James Brooks studio.

Reports of dead Canada geese in great numbers along the ocean beaches in the waning days of February have announced the arrival of what appears to be a wave of avian influenza here, posing a threat not only to wild birds and domestic poultry but also to pets that “go outside and eat or are exposed to sick or dead birds,” according to the Centers for Disease Control.