The Hamptons Shakespeare Festival has announced its first-ever virtual program, Camp Shakespeare Online.

By Lucy Peck and Ava Lipsky

Despite prolonged Covid-19 restrictions on in-person gatherings, local bookstores and libraries continue to offer virtual literary experiences for children and adults. East Hampton Village’s BookHampton is among them.

Citing “multiple ongoing violations,” East Hampton Town has taken legal action against the Marram Montauk resort, alleging the creation and use of multiple unapproved bar areas and the unauthorized conversion of a retail snack bar to a full-service restaurant with an expanded outdoor cooking area. The town is seeking an injunction to prohibit the resort from using them.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Friday gave schools in New York State the green light to reopen, pending approval of their individual education plans and the scheduling of open comment sessions with parents and teachers.

When the Bridgehampton winery Channing Daughters got inspired to work with what they had “at home” in the cellar, the outcome was a celebration of exceptional taste on the East End, in wine and in art.

"We've been here 26 years and nothing of this nature has ever happened," the business posted. "We were broken into, our Plexiglass barriers were smashed, our cash register broken open and destroyed."

While gyms remain closed due to the pandemic, an outdoor exercise emporium that offers workouts ranging from spin and dance classes to high-intensity interval training has popped up on the grounds of the East Hampton Indoor Tennis club.

The Whitney Museum may have had to cancel what would have been a major show of paintings by Agnes Pelton, who fashioned a Hayground windmill into a studio, but she gets her day in the form of Mari Coates's historical novel “The Pelton Papers.”