Daily Grind

The Rev. Thomas James of the East Hampton’s first church “came to the New World in search of religious freedom but found that freedom was not enough.” So says an announcement for a lecture next Thursday provokingly titled “The Convict Pastor: Thomas James and the Puritan Roots of Christian Nationalism.”

On March 14, a Saturday, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Montauk transfer station, the first of this year’s four Stop Throwing Out Pollutants, or STOP, days will be held, giving residents a safe way to dispose of nasty trash items.