Villages

How do village lifeguards do mornings? With gusto. “We’re the first line between the E.M.S. and the Police Department. We have to be versed in everything,” said Drew Smith, chief of the East Hampton Village guards, who gave The Star a glimpse into their daily operations.

The annual Hamptons Soldier Ride, a fund-raiser for the Wounded Warrior Project, will roll from Amagansett to Sag Harbor and back on Saturday morning. “It’s all about celebrating the veterans and the community,” said Nick Kraus of East Hampton, a founder of the ride who continues to volunteer for — and cycle in — the event.

Real estate transactions involving the Multiple Listing Service account for nearly 90 percent of all deals in most regions of the United States — but not on Long Island's South Fork. This will likely have the impact of buffering the South Fork real estate market from an October class-action ruling by a judge in Kansas City, Mo., that impacts regions where M.L.S. is more widely used.

Residents of the East Hampton Village Manufactured Home Community on Oakview Highway say they are frustrated at the frequency and duration of recurring power outages over the last several years, and are taking action to encourage the community's management company to finally solve the problems.

From the 1924 Wiborg Estate dog show to the day 75 years later when Representative Michael Forbes flipped, it happened here, readers.

This Saturday evening, on an 11-acre plot of land in Springs, a twisted version of Las Vegas, where nature-based gambling games raise money for an arboretum devoted to ecological storytelling and an artist in residence program, will, improbably, be the place to be.

“Shall we have a hook and ladder co.?” asked “A Native” in an 1886 East Hampton Star letter to the editor. “Your village has never suffered seriously from the ravages of the fire-fiend,” the letter warned. A year later, William S. Everett built East Hampton’s first hook and ladder truck, launching the journey of the East Hampton Fire Department, which celebrates its 125th anniversary this year.

Sartiano's, the ultra-upscale Italian restaurant owned by Scott Sartiano, owner of the private membership club Zero Bond in New York, is now taking reservations at the Hedges Inn for its new 80-seat summer pop-up. East Hampton Village officials are keeping a watchful eye on it, even appealing to the State Liquor Authority to question the establishment's liquor license.

Traffic was tied up in knots Monday morning on North Main Street in the vicinity of Cedar Street, prompting detours and delays as motorists made their way into downtown East Hampton from Springs.

The annual fireworks display over Three Mile Harbor — a tradition for decades that in more recent years has been overseen by the Clamshell Foundation — is set for this weekend: Saturday if it’s clear, Sunday in case of rain.

This paper's been around so long it was writing about the forward-thinking plan to put numbers on the buildings lining Main Street before the turn of the 20th century. And a lot more ripped from past pages.

Victor D'Amico's Art Barge began as a pilot program of classes sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art at Ashawagh Hall in Springs, seen here.