Villages

To experience summer on the South Fork is to witness the flaunting of materialism and, sometimes, unfathomable wealth. But if the efforts of Dan Lauter and Donna Soszynski-Lauter are successful, residents and visitors may one day experience treasures of an entirely different sort.

Jacqueline Bitonti, the new children’s librarian at the Montauk Library, is bursting with energy and full of ideas for the hamlet’s children and teenagers, a group she would like to get more involved with the library.

Laura Tuttle Traphagen and Catherine Ann Yelverton of Manhattan and East Hampton were married at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton on July 2.

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor continues to chug through its long, drawn-out construction phase with a completion date projected for the end of this year.

A preview of artwork that will be up for auction at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center’s summer fund-raiser on Aug. 1 is now available for viewing.

A few key donors swept in in the final days to help the Montauk Chamber of Commerce meet fund-raising goals for its July 4 Stars Over Montauk fireworks display.

Former Representative Tim Bishop wasted no time at the East Hampton Library on Saturday in answering the question he had posed in the title of his talk — “The U.S. Congress: Is the Branch Still Broken?”

On Saturday during Soldier Ride the Hamptons, the grandson of Tom Collins, a Springs resident who played a crucial role as a cryptologist in World War II and died in 2011, will ride on Team Sam Scram, a group organized in Mr. Collins’s honor.

The arrival of Suffolk County’s new area code on Saturday means residents need to start thinking twice when making local phone calls.

What began as an offhand late-night comment has given rise to an event that has raised millions for the Wounded Warrior Project.

Among the many visitors to the South Fork this summer is a dangerous multicellular organism making an appearance along the shore.

The Portuguese man-of-war, a highly toxic warm-water creature that resembles and acts like a jellyfish, has been spotted over the past few weeks on Gibson Beach in Sagaponack, Georgica Beach in East Hampton Village, Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue Beaches in Amagansett, and South Edison and Ditch Plain Beaches in Montauk.

When the Great Bonac Fireworks show, a national-class Grucci Fireworks midsummer display, begins sparkling over Three Mile Harbor on Saturday night, Laura Sobieski will have a front-row seat.

After receiving much support from village residents, the Sag Harbor Village Board unanimously passed a temporary moratorium on construction of most new single-family houses and major improvements on existing ones.

Barry Rosenstein, the founder of Jana Partners, a multibillion-dollar hedge fund, who reportedly paid $147 million for properties on Further Lane in East Hampton Village, was granted variances from the village zoning code.

As all of the pre-summer frenzy was under way here this spring, slowly taking shape — stone by stone, row by concentric row — on a field of grass overlooking Fort Pond Bay in Montauk was a labyrinth, an ancient shape for a walking practice of contemplation and meditation.

Anna Elizabeth Simonds and Michael Robert Glennon were married on June 27 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton.

When the Sag Harbor Village Board reconvenes next week the board will hold a hearing on a proposal that would halt some development.

Kathleen Loraine Kelly of Montauk and Manhasset and Francis Joseph Hurley of Ridgefield, Conn., were married on June 18 at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk. They celebrated afterward at the Montauk Lake Club. Msgr. Kieran Harrington of the Diocese of Brooklyn officiated.

Sandra Schroeder, the newly elected mayor of the Village of Sag Harbor, took office on Monday afternoon.

The Hopper is back, riding Sag-to-Montauk loop, again and again.

Tim Bishop, who represented New York’s First Congressional District for six terms until his defeat in November, will speak about dysfunction in Congress on Saturday at the East Hampton Library.

The letters begin perhaps like any letter sent from abroad to one’s family back on the old homestead about a century ago — “Dear Ones at Home.”

Building political will for a livable world is a work in progress, according to Don Matheson, a builder who lives in East Hampton, but if his observations from last week’s international conference of Citizens Climate Lobby are accurate, that undertaking is nearing a tipping point.

Looking back on his 21 years on the Sag Harbor Village Board, first as a trustee and finally as mayor, Brian Gilbride said he has no regrets.

It seems as if Mother Nature has provided an au pair for a pair of Canada geese and their three downy goslings that hang out on Fort Pond near Second House Road and Industrial Road in Montauk.

The departure of Uber, the app-based car service, following a blitz of tickets given its drivers for lacking the required town taxi licenses, has two East End taxi company owners jumping into the breach.

Trustees want beach garbage cans removed from East Hampton Village beaches; village says they’re staying put.

The shops, circa 1797 and 1850, would be moved back to their original location, on North Main Street in East Hampton Village near the Emergency Services Building.

John Philip Jaxheimer, the son of Susan and John Jaxheimer of Amagansett and New York City, and Aimee Bridget Ruby were married on May 26.

Ed Deyermond, who was re-elected last week to another term on the Sag Harbor Village Board, is going to have a new 9-to-5 job as of next week, though it’s one with which he is very familiar.