On top of the relaxing atmosphere, natural beauty, and tasty clams, the east end of Long Island has another attraction in the East Hampton Star, a local newspaper's local newspaper which I probably mentioned after I went out there last summer. Only a portion of the paper's content appears online, but thanks to my OCR scanner, it requires little effort to share some of the highlights from this week's police log with you.

When wood chips fell into the engine of Philip A. Berg's car last Thursday morning, a fire broke out under the hood. The fire ignited as Mr. Berg was driving along Alewife Brook Road.

On Saturday morning, Eileen Wicke of Yew Street discovered that someone had emptied the water from her hot tub and placed seven sprinkler heads on the patio around her pool, damaging it.

On the morning of May 23, Florence Simms of Springs-Fireplace Road called police after she saw a man place a bag of trash in a garbage receptacle outside Calypso, a clothing store on Newtown Lane. She recorded his license plate number as he drove away.

Kevin Ackerly of Meadow Way alerted police after he noticed a man trying to enter a neighbor's house on the afternoon of May 25. It turned out to be the caretaker, Sherrill Webb.

On the night of May 25, Judy Delia Femina reported a suspicious car on Drew Lane that police later found parked at Main Beach. The driver told police that she was waiting to pick up a friend.

Noah Perlman of Georgica Road put his dog inside on Sunday evening after police informed him that a neighbor had complained of barking.

Four patrons who had been asked to leave Bamboo restaurant on Montauk Highway at midnight on Sunday caused a ruckus in the parking lot before departing in a cab.

Alexandra Yates of New Haven and a friend were surprised when an elderly man they met at Wiborg's Beach on Friday showed up at their bed-and-breakfast on Montauk Highway later that afternoon. They asked him to leave and called police.

When Robert Schienberg's landscapers accidentally cut the lawn on a property adjoining his on Buell Lane, Mr. Schienberg's neighbor allegedly threatened to kill him, and told police that Mr. Schienberg has trespassed repeatedly.

On the afternoon of May 23, one teenager allegedly punched another teenager on Park Place, then hit him again in Herrick Park. The victim told police that the aggressor's father and uncle prevented him from escaping the blows.

Kenneth Boyd, who lives near the Sun and Sound motel on Soundview Drive, advised a naked man he spotted standing on a motel balcony on Saturday to put on some clothes. The man "mooned" Mr. Boyd, but assured police he would not do so again.