Education

The Goat on a Boat Puppet Truck will pull into Project Most’s temporary headquarters at the Most Holy Trinity school building in East Hampton on Saturday at 11 a.m. to perform its take on “The Three Little Pigs.”

In the East Hampton School District, anonymous donors have stepped up to start wiping out about $7,000 in school-lunch debt that the district has incurred over the last few years.

The East Hampton School District is planning to put a proposition on the May 16 budget ballot enabling it to withdraw $3,925,000 from its capital reserve account for several big-ticket projects, with one important asterisk.

On Friday, a group of neighbors whose properties border the proposed Marsden Street athletic field filed a lawsuit against the Sag Harbor School District, alleging it failed to adequately complete a state-mandated environmental review.

The 2023-24 school budget cycle is in full swing, and at least one local school district — Sag Harbor — has proposed a preliminary budget with a tax-levy increase that doesn’t rise to the maximum allowed by New York State. This is unusual because most school districts tend to go right up to their allowable increases, but it’s not unusual for Sag Harbor, which has been a few percentage points under the maximum almost every year since the tax-cap legislation took effect in 2012.

The office of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli on Friday released an audit report indicating Sag Harbor let some minor claims errors slip by between July 1, 2020, and March 31, 2022. The report states that “although all claims were appropriate, audited, and approved before payment, the claims auditor did not ensure claims were supported.”

Project Most’s effort to build its new, state-of-the-art community learning center at 92 Three Mile Harbor Road is in full swing, with a $10 million fund-raising campaign and discussions with the East Hampton Town Planning Board formally underway.

Catch Pierson High School students' photos on display through the end of February. Plus: Valentine's Day crafts galore, STEM activities, art workshops, and more for kids and teens.

Jack Perna doesn’t have any children of his own, but at the Montauk School, where he has worked since February 1973 and been superintendent and principal since 1995, he has helped guide thousands of students through their formative years.

An exhibition of Pierson High School students' street photography — meaning compelling, candid scenes from around Sag Harbor — is on display at Bay Street Theater through the end of February.

In November, residents in the Sag Harbor School District voted 638 to 521 in favor of spending district money to buy land on Marsden Street to create athletic fields across the street from Pierson Middle and High School, but the nature of those fields remains a raging debate, as seen last week when the school district held its second public forum on the proposal. “We decided, as it pertains to the Marsden lot fields, to take 100-percent synthetic turf off the table,” said Jeff Nichols, the district superintendent.

For almost an hour on Tuesday, Ina Garten imparted lessons on cooking, baking, business, the business of cooking and baking — plus life, love, and the pursuit of happiness — to students in East Hampton High School's culinary arts program. Her messages immediately resonated with the students, who later said they are feeling lots of pressure to choose a college, a major, and a career.