Grind

Warm temperatures and scattered precipitation in the past week are likely contributors to increased bacteria in nine of 33 sites tested weekly by Concerned Citizens of Montauk, with a significant spike measured in Montauk’s Fort Pond.

Jeff Miller, the Republican candidate for East Hampton Town clerk, will hold a campaign fund-raiser at LTV Studios in Wainscott on July 24 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Julian Zelizer, the commentator and professor, will be in conversation with David Alpern, radio man and once of Newsweek, on Monday at the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton.

The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum’s ninth annual lobster bake fund-raiser happens on Saturday at 6 p.m. at the museum. 

Free movies have returned to Amagansett Square on Wednesday nights at sundown. Next week’s selection is “Surf’s Up.” Moviegoers have been advised to take their own seating and blankets.

Conditions at 29 percent of the 33 sites tested by C.C.O.M. in Montauk, Amagansett, and East Hampton have improved as compared to the results of samples taken during the week of June 30.

Guild Hall in East Hampton kicks off its summer series of KidFest shows this week with Mario the Maker Magician on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Described as "contagiously upbeat and full of heart," Mario the Maker's shows are "an all-ages theater experience," according to Guild Hall. 

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will hold its Summer Fair — now in its 110th year — on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

East Hampton Town officials are reminding visitors and residents to follow New York State’s Move Over Law this holiday weekend.

Even though it rained, water quality did not significantly worsen this week compared to last, according to Concerned Citizens of Montauk. Some sites even saw improvement.  

The South Fork Natural History Museum’s Young Environmentalists Society is offering a free wellness workshop inspired by nature and sound for those 10 and older on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

If you haven’t taken full advantage of the short but wonderful strawberry season, Sunday’s the day to make up for it. At the Wainscott Strawberry Festival, held at the Wainscott Chapel from 2 to 4 p.m. (or until supplies run out), there will be strawberry shortcake to eat on the premises or take home.

Residents concerned about disaster preparedness due to recent cuts to both the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration may have some of those concerns eased at an emergency preparedness night hosted by East Hampton Town on Monday evening at 6:30. 

Two commemorations of local history will happen this weekend at the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum. 

The Montauk Blessing of the Fleet will be Sunday at 5 p.m. at the mouth of Montauk Harbor.

Six locations tested by Concerned Citizens of Montauk this week registered levels of enterococcus in the medium or high range, though most East Hampton Town sites tested showed low to no bacteria. 

A new activist group, People for Democracy East Hampton, will rally on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Town Hall.

ReWild Long Island added a new pollinator garden at the Windmill 1 senior citizens housing complex in East Hampton last week.

For the first time in more than 400 years, the Shinnecock Nation has reclaimed aboriginal land. 

Canio’s Cultural Cafe will welcome Tony McGowan, a professor of English at West Point and a Herman Melville scholar, at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor next Thursday night at 6 as he discusses the modern relevance of “Moby-Dick” ahead of this year’s Moby-Dick Marathon of readings.

Edwin Keeshan, medical director of the Meeting House Lane Medical Practice in Montauk, will host the hamlet’s first Walk With a Doc, part of a national effort, on Saturday at 11 a.m. The meeting place is the gazebo on the downtown green.

At an E.M.S. open house at the Bridgehampton Firehouse on School Street on Sunday, the Bridgehampton Fire Department will offer lessons in hands-only CPR and the best ways to care for pets in an emergency. There will be refreshments, activities for children, and a chance to meet the department’s crews and check out the ambulances.

ReWild Long Island is beginning its summer composting program this weekend and will collect compost and provide information to those interested on Saturday at the Springs and Sag Harbor Farmers Markets and the Montauk Community Garden. The organization will have tables at Ashawagh Hall from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Sag Harbor market on Bay Street from 10 a.m. to noon, and also from 10 a.m. to noon in Montauk.

The group will maintain those same hours throughout the season, with help from adult and teen volunteers, who will explain what kind of scraps can and cannot be composted.

A pruning workshop at LongHouse, native plant experts at Wittendale's, and a chance to lend a hand at community gardens in East Hampton.

An art auction this weekend at the Gardiner Mill Cottage Gallery in East Hampton Village will benefit Kayla Kearney, a young Springs woman and aspiring artist who endured more than eight months of hospitalization, surgeries, and physical therapy stemming from a tumor on her pituitary gland.

Multiple sites tested in Lake Montauk, elsewhere in Montauk, and Northwest Creek in East Hampton revealed elevated levels of enterococcus bacteria, Concerned Citizens of Montauk announced this week. 

A party at the Clubhouse in Wainscott tomorrow with live music by Real East End Brass and a silent auction will raise money for the East Hampton High School Parent-Teacher-Student Association.

The Church in Sag Harbor has planned “a full day of wonder, fun, and playfulness” for families on Saturday, with activities to get the brain and body going and creative juices flowing. The Spring Jubilee runs from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will commemorate Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a guest speaker and service on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. 

The community has been invited to share its priorities for East Hampton Village at a virtual workshop on May 1 at 6:30 p.m. as part of the village’s work toward updating its comprehensive plan.