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Efforts to preserve farming in East Hampton, and the outcome of previous preservation efforts, were at the root of wide-ranging opinions expressed at Town Hall last Thursday during a hearing on whether the town should buy what are known as enhanced development rights on the Dankowski farm in Wainscott.

Sunday was the last in a string of hot, rainless days. I took my grandson over to the North Fork to look at the Penny family grave site on Factory Avenue in Mattituck. On the way I visited Calverton because Fred Havemeyer, who is running for supervisor in Southampton Town, told me about a large solar farm on Edwards Avenue in Riverhead, not far from the border of Brookhaven.

In swift decision, judge rules against the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals; business can remain at Shagwong Marina on Three Mile Harbor.

The Town and Country report, which compares home sales reports year to year, was released on July 18.

On Sunday, Tinka Topping's relentless pursuit of a less authoritarian approach to education will be recognized as she is honored at the 13th annual Chefs Dinner fund-raiser for the Hayground School and its kitchen and garden programs.

In an 11:30 a.m. ceremony, members of the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars post in East Hampton will officially conclude a duty they have fulfilled on behalf of the L.V.I.S. for many years: the placing of American flags at sites throughout the village on national holidays and other important dates.

A private study has found that one in five South Fork waterways tested between 2013 and 2016 had bacteria levels above a federal health standard at least 40 percent of the time. In some locations, results have been more than 100 times an Environmental Protection Agency safe level for coastal recreational waters.

Perry Gershon, a businessman and entrepreneur who is a Democratic candidate to represent New York’s First Congressional District, announced on Monday that he has raised $102,700 since July 15.

The Southampton Town Democratic Committee has challenged almost all the signatures on Fred Havemeyer’s petition to force a primary in September against Supervisor Jay Schneiderman — 95 percent of them.

A three-vehicle pileup on Montauk Highway in Wainscott Tuesday afternoon that involved a school bus sent two people to the hospital. The bus had no children in it at the time.

Firefighters are battling a house fire in the estate section of Southampton Village Friday afternoon.

Wind farm officials hear fishermen's pleas and are exploring an alternative to an initial plan to route the installation's transmission cable through Gardiner's Bay.

The facility, which would store power drawn from the grid when demand is low and release it back at peak hours, is planned for a half-acre site on North Shore Road, which connects Industrial Road and Navy Road in Montauk.

This past weekend, for the 17th year in a row, our core group fished in the Montauk Mercury Grand Slam.

Damage to two houses where fires broke out in recent days could have been a lot worse had it not been for observant neighbors, according to fire officials.

Cycling routes of 25 and 60 miles, as well as a 5K walk in Sag Harbor, will raise money for the Wounded Warrior organization. Day-of registration will be welcomed.

The new owner of the former Oceanside Motel in Montauk, now called Hero Beach Club, has sued East Hampton Town over its adoption last month of a law that prohibits resorts from having takeout food shops.

East Hampton officials are set to enact a law and establish a rebate program designed to get septic systems that contribute to water pollution out of the ground and replace them with newer ones that reduce emissions of nitrogen.

The annual East Hampton Lions Club chicken barbecue is a week earlier this year and has been relocated to the American Legion from the Ladies Village Improvement Society fairground.

As of its soft opening on July 10, East Hampton has a new purveyor of beer, soda, juices, mixers, and other goods. Sam’s Beverage Place, at 29 Race Lane, is the bright and inviting retailer that now occupies the former Pritam and Eames furniture store.

A fire broke out at a house on Gainsborough Court in Montauk on Tuesday afternoon.

Detectives are investigating a burglary at two East Hampton Village stores, along with a fire that was started there, in the early morning hours on Monday.

Bicyclists spotted a pickup truck in the woods at about 7 a.m. It was not clear how long he had been there.

Capt. Frank Tuma Sr. will be honored as the Fishing Legend of the Year at the conclusion of the 17th annual Montauk Mercury Grand Slam Fishing Tournament on Sunday.

The Sag Harbor Partnership’s Party for the Cinema, to help raise money for the group’s effort to buy the Sag Harbor Cinema property and establish a cinema arts center there, will be held under a tent on Long Wharf on Sunday.

A free ukulele class for beginners is being offered at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

The barn at the historic Duck Creek Farm on the corner of Three Mile Harbor and Squaw Roads in Springs has been restored after an 18-month process and will open to the public on Saturday with an exhibit of artwork by Sydney Albertini.

A $4 million purchase of enhanced development rights on almost 30 acres of farmland in Wainscott would be the first East Hampton Town acquisition under which only food farming would be permitted.

Students may be on summer break, but local school boards are busy. Last week, they began their 2017-18 administrative year with annual reorganizational meetings.

It was about four years ago that Judy Smith noticed a seagull walking around on her deck and gave it something to eat. The seagull stuck around and visited Ms. Smith and her husband every weekend, loudly knocking its beak on their back window to say hello.