One of the pleasures of a home with older dogs, aside from surprising four-figure veterinary surgery bills, is when they get you up at the oddest hours of the night.

I keep getting requests for money to help eliminate the Electoral College, which, of course, I would love to see happen, for, when you think about it, its reason for being had to do with the founders’ fear of a direct popular vote that a demagogue might manipulate to his advantage.

I first picked up Caroline Pratt’s 1948 memoir-cum-history of the City and Country School, “I Learn From Children,” in the late 1960s, and its progressive commitment to growing activist citizens instantly resonated. It’s out in a new edition, and not a moment too soon.

At the Montauk Library, preparations are underway to move books, staff, equipment, and programs into four large trailers that will serve as temporary quarters as the library undertakes its first expansion since construction of its current building in 1991. 

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East Hampton High’s girls and boys winter track teams finished at the bottom of the standings in league meets at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood over the weekend — the boys placing 10th among 11 teams, and the girls last.