Villages

People have increasingly taken note of Montauk Brewing Company's growing popularity, characterized by its always-packed tap room, cool takes on brews involving ingredients like watermelon and pumpkin, and buzzy media coverage. The international cannabis and alcohol company Tilray was among those paying attention, and on Monday, Tilray announced that it has bought the Montauk Brewing Company for an undisclosed sum.

Peter Ciaccia, who organized and directed New York Road Runner events for 20 years, including the TCS New York City Marathon that is to be run throughout the city’s five boroughs Sunday, will have two goals in mind on the Verrazano Bridge: crossing the 26.2-mile race’s finish line, and raising as much money as he can through his Need 2 Feed gofundme effort so that the Montauk Food Pantry can continue to feed more than 200 needy families and homebound people in that hamlet.

Saturday is STOP Day, or Stop Throwing Out Pollutants Day, in East Hampton Town. From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., residents can take hazardous materials found in the average residence to the Montauk transfer station at 365 Montauk Highway.

East Hampton Village is installing banners on village lampposts along Route 27 this week, celebrating local residents who were war veterans.

This broadside establishes Elisha Baldwin’s candidacy for county clerk as a member of the American Party in 1855. Baldwin (1821-1865) was at the time a Queens County resident and part of a long-established family there.

Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, an initiative to help people safely dispose of unneeded medications, with collection sites planned in East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

Talk about the deadliest catch: A Rhode Island-based trawler fishing off Block Island on Oct. 26 hauled in an unexploded World War II-era depth charge that was later safely detonated by the United States Navy.

Halloween of 1922 brought out the entire village Police Department, but each officer exercised “more than his usual forbearance on that particular night.”

Feed the East End 2022, a campaign to raise money for food pantries across the region, has kicked off a virtual silent auction featuring more than 75 prizes donated by local businesses and prominent community members.

A 183-foot-long lift boat with jack-up legs taller than the Statue of Liberty was to have arrived at Bridgeport Harbor in Connecticut last night, after which it will make its way to the waters off Wainscott Beach, where it will be used in the initial offshore construction of the South Fork Wind farm.

Wednesday is World Adoption Day, and Michael Watson and Aaron Cummings of Springs would like nothing more in the world than to adopt a baby. But the road to becoming a parent via adoption is rarely straightforward.

Matt Charron has spent many of his Saturdays over the past two-plus years helping Habitat for Humanity of Long Island build new houses for families just like his for whom home ownership was always just out of reach. On Monday, the tables were turned, as others pitched in to raise the walls on a Habitat house in East Hampton that is being built for Mr. Charron and his 15-year-old son, Jackson.