The Choral Society of the Hamptons will welcome spring with a program of whimsical music.

Classical piano and a dance party at The Church, Hamptons Jazz Fest in Southampton, stand-up comedy at Bay Street, actors’ monologues in Montauk, garden talks at Marders, and musical variety in Riverhead.

Miriam Schapiro in NoHo, paintings and ceramics at Harper’s, nature and migration at Halsey McKay, abstraction vs. figuration at White Room, Dan Welden as inspiration, Linda Stein far and near.

L’Epicuriste in Bridgehampton offers carefully selected speciality food items as well as tableware, kitchen items, flowers, vegetables, local honey, even artwork.

The Parrish celebrates Art of the Brew, Loaves and Fishes has fresh sausage, Mediterranean cooking demo at Rogers Library, chili chowdown in Springs, C.S.A. programs at local farms, and more.

A boisterous group of 40-plus ambulance volunteers, many from the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association but some "mutually aided" from nearby departments, showed up at the East Hampton Village Board meeting on Friday to speak out against a plan that would have the ambulance association come under village control.