Education

With a benefit, Cabaret for a Cause, coming up, the Road Forward Scholarship Fund seeks to continue helping economically disadvantaged students not only go to college, but stay in college.

Since last fall, the Springs School PTA has been planning the return of the popular Mystery Art Sale after a six-year hiatus. Friday and Saturday are the big days — let the guessing game begin.

Saturday and Sunday mornings in June are for families to explore Amber Waves Farm, where staff members are on hand to guide them through the educational garden. Plus: sticker-swap party, movie nights, Pop! Fun night, a pop-up pond exhibit, and more for kids and teens.

Michael Rodgers, a longtime Amagansett School gym teacher and administrator affectionately called Coach Rodgers by colleagues, students, and parents, has been appointed superintendent of the district.

Isabelle Caplin has been named the 2024 class valedictorian at Pierson High School and Chad Federico the salutatorian, the Sag Harbor School District announced Tuesday.

Guild Hall’s Teen Arts Council is now accepting applications for the 2024-25 academic year. The council is open to any East Hampton-area high school student with a love and appreciation of the arts.

Ten students from high schools here have been nominated for their accomplishments in theater by East End Arts, the organization that hosts the Teeny Awards annually.

In South Fork districts not attempting to override the state-imposed tax-levy cap, there was good news on Tuesday. Voters in Montauk, Sag Harbor, Wainscott, Sagaponack, and Bridgehampton overwhelmingly supported their respective budgets.

In the East Hampton, Springs, and Amagansett school districts, tax-cap-busting budgets needed a supermajority of at least 60 percent voter approval to pass, and their respective communities responded by turning out in strong numbers to vote on Tuesday.

Eight hundred copies of the new Ditch Weekly, chronicling all that’s happening in Montauk from a youth perspective, drops today in shops and restaurants across the hamlet. Its founders are three East Hampton Middle School students.

Kites for Kids returns to Main Beach in East Hampton on Saturday afternoon, once again serving as a fund-raiser for the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center. Plus: a CMEE block party, arts and crafts, guitar lessons in Bridgehampton, a teen clothing swap in Montauk, and more.

The local chapter of Whiskey Bravo, a nationwide youth organization that raises awareness of the kinds of support needed by veterans and active military personnel, took on the somber task this year of placing flags at the gravesites of East Hampton soldiers, and also walked a symbolic lap around the field at the American Legion to show their support.