Villages

The East Hampton Historical Society’s annual winter lecture series, which will take place virtually this year, will launch Friday evening at 7 with “I Remember When: John Howard Payne’s Memories of Old East Hampton and His Life, 1791-1852.”

Local legend holds that sections of this house were made from timbers of early shipwrecks. 

Coyotes, which have recently been seen on surveillance cameras on the East End, will be the subject of a South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center talk on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

A plan is in the works to renovate and expand the Montauk skate park, designed in 1999 by the late skateboarding legend Andy Kessler. To fund the project, East Hampton Town has $50,000 in hand from one donor and is applying for a $25,000 grant from the Skatepark Project in California.

Lori Hawkins has covered the inauguration before. Whether or not to wear a flak jacket was not something those occasions required her to consider.

The Amagansett Library's copy of "Great Heart: The LIfe Story of Theodore Roosevelt" was belatedly returned, the late fee waived. It had been checked out on April 5, 1949, and was returned on Friday, approximately 71 years and nine months overdue.

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen announced a plan to reconfigure parking spaces on Newtown Lane and along the perimeter of the Reutershan parking lot from parallel to angled drive-in parking at a board meeting on Friday.

The Sag Harbor Village Board is getting closer to finalizing a proposal to charge for parking on Main Street and in the Long Wharf parking lot between Memorial Day and Columbus Day weekends.

You may or may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but you sure as heck can teach an older adult how to use newfangled technology.

"We tried to come up with something fun during Covid," Mayor Jerry Larsen said.

Recently, a new source of uncertainty has arisen in the form of a variant in the novel coronavirus that has spread quickly. There are many concerns about what this means for the next stages of the pandemic, especially as we stand on the brink of the largest mass vaccination effort in memory.

Depending on the weather, East Hampton's Little League organization could begin outdoor clinics for 8 through 12-year-old boys and girls at the Pantigo fields in East Hampton this weekend.