Villages

In 1897, early rumblings of a move toward village incorporation here, and 1972 memories of counting drinks at the Elaine Benson Gallery in Bridgehampton.

A staged reading at the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station on June 11 will mark the 80th anniversary of the landing of Nazi saboteurs on the nearby beach during World War II.

Despite a high rate of vaccination, Covid-19 has proven an unrelenting and evolving threat to public health across New York and the country, and highly contagious subvariants of the Omicron variant mean a growing number of people have endured, or will experience, multiple infections, according to an associate professor of public health at Stony Brook University.

At least 45 groups are already signed on to march in East Hampton Village's first Pride parade, which will step off from near Guild Hall on Saturday at noon and head down Main Street to Newtown Lane and Herrick Park for a post-parade rally. Organizers are still hoping to add a band to the line-up, and last-minute marchers will be welcomed at a designated location that morning.

Scarlet tanagers breed in forest interiors. Take a walk on the Sprig Tree Trail in Sag Harbor, or along the Round Pond Trail where they sing and breed. You'll also find them at the Grace Estate, Hither Woods, and Barcelona Neck. The trick is to find a large expansive stretch of woods and listen.

As the first funerals began in Uvalde, Tex., Tuesday, clergy 2,000 miles away in East Hampton held an interfaith vigil at Hook Mill, offering some words of comfort on the unfathomable loss after a gunman last week killed 19 children and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School.

The road resurfacing project in downtown Sag Harbor Village, originally slated to be finished by Memorial Day, is now estimated to be complete by June 17, according a spokeswoman for National Grid.

Leo Daunt hasn’t just co-opted any old vintage mom-and-pop atmosphere of 1970s Montauk in the repurposing of his seaside motel. He's actually taken his mom and pop’s vibe and given it a cool rethink with glossy interiors and contemporary twists like Himalayan salt lamps in the rooms, outdoor fire pits, and a yoga pavilion — the better to cater to the values of the millennial traveler.

If the forecasters at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center are right, the 2022 Atlantic hurricane season will be the seventh consecutive year of above-average hurricane activity, with 14 to 21 named storms, three to six of which could become major hurricanes.

As has been the tradition in East Hampton Village for more than four decades, hundreds of people marched down Main Street on Monday for the Memorial Day parade, which honored military men and women who have been lost in the line of duty since the Civil War.

Dr. Meera Shah, the chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood in the Hudson Peconic region, spoke over Zoom this week about her work as an abortion provider, the epic struggle facing her organization, and its fund-raiser in Bridgehampton on June 4, at which she will be a featured speaker.

This photograph from the Springs Historical Society shows Donald Asa Miller (1917-2007) in a bomber-style aviator jacket. The plane behind him carries an Army Air Corps logo, although Miller served as a radioman in the Navy.