Villages

September calls to mind the beginning of the academic year. This East Hampton High School Handbook from 1960 reveals how much has changed in just over 60 years.

HarborFest will take over Sag Harbor Village this weekend, with entertainment on Long Wharf, Windmill Beach, and in Steinbeck Park on Saturday and Sunday.

Back in 2016, the owners of the Wharf Shop in Sag Harbor Village, frustrated by a lack of jigsaw puzzles with a Sag Harbor theme, decided to come up with their own. Eventually, the first puzzle sold out and a second came and went too, which has now led to a third, being offered just in time for HarborFest, a thousand-piecer for $22.95.

For East Hampton Town Litter Cleanup Day on Saturday, efforts to pick up trash will take place from Wainscott to Montauk. “Study after study shows the highest indicator that someone will pick up litter is witnessing someone else picking up litter,” Christine Ganitsch of the town’s litter action committee said.

Voters in the East Hampton Library District will cast ballots on the library's $3.725 million spending plan for 2024 on Sept. 23. 

Developers of the South Fork Wind farm have completed the offshore installation of the project’s advanced foundation components, which were prefabricated in western New York and assembled in Rhode Island, on the wind farm’s 12 turbine foundations.

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The Food and Drug Administration has declared Narcan, a nasally administered drug that counteracts opioid overdoses, safe for over-the-counter access at pharmacies nationwide, prompting positive reactions this week from local health experts and public safety officials. “In the future, you’ll probably see Narcan in every public place and building. From a public safety perspective, the more tools we can put out there into the community, the better off we are,” said East Hampton Town Sgt. Ken Alversa.

The first Hamptons Hispanic Parade on Saturday at 11 a.m., organized by the nonprofit Peru to the World Expo Foundation, will kick off a daylong celebration of Peruvian culture and food that will culminate with a culinary extravaganza at Herrick Park from 2 to 7 p.m.

In East Hampton, residents knew Frazer Dougherty as the charismatic and dogged force behind the founding of Local TV, the town’s nonprofit public access television station, which began broadcasting out of his garage in the early 1980s and has since documented all aspects of Bonacker life. Mr. Dougherty died on Aug. 29 at home in Aventura, Fla., where he had been living since 2009, after “a long and illustrious life,” his family said. He was 101.

The musician Jimmy Buffett, who lived on North Haven for many years, was remembered on the South Fork this week as a generous, gracious, and down-to-earth neighbor, his worldwide fame and considerable wealth notwithstanding.

On Sept. 6, 1838, Joanna Livingston Van Wyck (1812-1903) wrote to Margaret Gardiner (1822-1857), her cousin on Gardiner’s Island, as part of an ongoing correspondence, here having to do with family news and a summer church camp.