South Asian music at Duck Creek in Springs, live reggae in Sag Harbor and Bridgehampton, piano from Hamptons Jazz Fest at LTV and the Parrish Art Museum.

Amber Waves Farm hosted a class on mocktails, i.e., zero-proof drinks, led by a mixologist from Boisson, the world’s largest distributor of booze-free libations.

Peaches are abundant and ripe for picking at the Truxel Farm, a newly opened you-pick farm on Route 114 thought to be East Hampton's first full-scale peach farm.

Goldberg’s Bagels to open in Water Mill, Hawaiian evening at Crabby Jerry’s in Greenport, Maison Close back in business in Montauk, outdoor cookouts at the Pridwin on Shelter Island.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced Thursday that this year’s Down Payment Assistance Program is now open for applications. The program allows first-time homebuyers $30,000 to purchase a single family home with the agreement that the buyer will live there for at least 10 years.

A “bracket bash” party is to be held Friday evening from 6 to 9 at the Clubhouse in Wainscott to work out a schedule for the double-elimination Travis Field memorial coed softball tournament that will be contested by 17 teams and is to begin Thursday afternoon at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett. 

The South Fork's own home-grown rock star Nancy Atlas will play to the crowd at the free Tuesday night concert at Main Beach this week. And the music continues every week through Sept. 5.

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that due to heat advisories announced for Thursday through Saturday, state parks will be extending the hours of swimming facilities throughout New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley.

The Suffolk County Legislature voted 10 to 7 along partisan lines to recess and close its hearing on Tuesday without acting to put the Suffolk County Water Quality Protection Act on the Nov. 7 ballot, which would have let voters decide whether or not the county sales tax should be increased by one-eighth of a cent to create a Water Quality Restoration Fund.

AquaEye, the next wave of ocean-rescue technology, is here — and the Hampton Lifeguard Association is raising money to get it into the hands of town and village lifeguards. Its goal is $35,000 before the start of hurricane season.