“It was a war. I would not wish this experience on anyone,” Stephen Rosen said, but family, friends, faith, and good fortune helped him and his wife get through it.

Beaches raise the question of safety not only for beachgoers but for lifeguards, and the town is pondering whether or how it can keep beaches and parks open while protecting employees and the public and avoiding a subsequent wave of Covid-19 infection.

Marinas and boatyards, which had been deemed non-essential under the governor's New York on PAUSE executive order, have been allowed to open, giving people happy to social-distance with fishing gear in hand reason to celebrate.

As increasing numbers face food insecurity here, people are helping to feed those in need through food pantries, community partnerships, and a new food fund that also aids essential workers and local restaurants.

While the Covid-19 pandemic has brought business at East End hotels to a virtual standstill, several owners said this week that they are expecting an influx of guests this summer and will retool operations to accommodate them safely.

Nassau and Suffolk Counties’ Athletic Councils pulled the plug on high school springs sports, a “heartbreaking decision,” in the words of Section VIII’s executive director, Pat Pizzarelli, but one that was not surprising given the coronavirus pandemic.

The Town of East Hampton has sued East Hampton Village and its liability insurance company over the perfluorinated chemicals stored and used at East Hampton Airport in Wainscott, which contaminated drinking water in that hamlet and caused 47 of the airport’s 570 acres to be included on the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Registry of Inactive Hazardous Waste Disposal sites, or Superfund sites.

If the outside world’s impression of East Hampton is that of wealth and celebrities, country clubs and fabulous restaurants, then this glossy quasquicentennial cookbook will firmly cement that impression.

East End Acupuncture Associates is a long-established practice here helmed by the mother-daughter team of Carol Sigler and Julie Sigler-Baum.

While they share a practice, and Ms. Sigler-Baum was inspired by her parents to go into the field, each has a different approach, background, and concentration.

Before her study of Eastern medicine, Ms. Sigler was a nurse and a surgical supervisor at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Given that, it came as no surprise that her first recommendation involved properly cleaning the hands.