Villages

Build.In.Kind/East Hampton and the Wainscott Heritage Project will host a screening of “One Big Home,” a 2016 documentary by Thomas Bena, at LTV Studios in Wainscott on Saturday at 4 p.m.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest, set for Sunday, will take place in a modified form after heavy rains over several days prompted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to close some harbors to shellfishing this week. 

Bicycle racing goes awry in 1897, and 125 years later the Sag Harbor mayor had to crack down on drunkenness and rowdy behavior.

Starting this week, East Hampton Town’s Covid-19 testing site at 110 Stephen Hand’s Path in Wainscott, operated by CareONE Concierge, will only be open on Fridays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Two fishermen chasing Spanish mackerel were in the right place at the right time for Bill Biebel, after a major mechanical failure blew a hole in the hull of the boat he was captaining.

Offshore construction of the South Fork Wind farm commenced this week. Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind, a developer of the project, issued a mariners briefing on seabed preparation for the 12-turbine installation on Sept. 23. Included is the start of the clearing of boulders where the wind farm’s turbine foundations will be situated and along cable routes, which must happen before the laying of the wind farm’s export cable and other connecting cables.

Residents of Wainscott continued to press for changes at the Maidstone Gun Club this week, including shutting it down, citing numerous instances of bullets hitting houses and the potential for a tragedy.

Imagine a world without wine. That’s the devastation that could be wrought by the spotted lanternfly, an invasive insect from Asia that’s reached Ronkonkoma and is headed east, posing a serious threat to vineyards.

From an 1897 crackdown on truancy to the death throes of the Peconic County effort a hundred years later, it happened here.

Bluetongue, a serious virus, has been detected for the first time in New York State deer. A cousin of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, it is spread by the bite from a midge, or no-see-um, and incubates in a deer for seven days before the animal begins to show symptoms. There is no treatment for the virus, which typically kills an adult deer within 36 hours.

John Custis Lawrence (1867-1944), a Montauk-born architect, appears in this photograph participating in Forefathers’ Day, demonstrating how to grind corn to make samp, a mashed cornmeal porridge dish of Indigenous origin.

The Montauk Village Association faces an uncertain post-Covid future after the old guard nonprofit saw its fund-raising plummet during the pandemic.