Around 15,000 cubic yards of sand for the dune reconstruction project at Ditch Plain Beach in Montauk has been deposited, and the initiative to protect a residential neighborhood there moves toward completion.

Representative Nick LaLota said he would welcome a “fact-based, politically neutral review” of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decisions with respect to a Sept. 2 military strike on a boat in the Caribbean that some have called a war crime.

The dredging of the harbor at Lake Montauk, which is to restore safe navigation to the inlet, hit a snag last month when “they ran into a really big rock.”

A town board vote on the proposed rezoning of two parcels of land, at 152 Three Mile Harbor Road and 33 West Drive, to make way for a condominium development will not be held Thursday evening.

A trivia night at the Point Bar and Grill in Montauk on Wednesday from 6 to 9 will raise money for an East Hampton High School service-learning trip in February to Malawi, where students will work with a rural community to construct a school.

The Hampton Ballet Theatre School returns to Guild Hall on Friday, Dec. 12, for its annual production of “The Nutcracker.” The holiday favorite will take the stage at 7 p.m. that day and on Dec. 13, and at noon and 5 p.m. on Dec. 14.

The Sag Harbor School District will host its first community forum on the $40 million Pierson Capital Improvement Project on Dec. 9 at 6:30 p.m. in the high school gym.

Montauk School officials seek to reassure voters about a $34 million bond for upgrades as well as the matter of superintendent housing at the Fisher house in the hamlet.

When twinkling Christmas lights brighten Ashawagh Hall and the holiday spirit fills the air, excitement will become real for this year’s Lights of Love festival, which is being held on Sunday at 4 p.m.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons' winter concert will feature the premiere of “A Child Is Born,” a cantata by Bruce Saylor, an acclaimed composer.