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The holiday season arrives at the Montauk Lighthouse this weekend, starting on Saturday with the annual Lighting of the Light from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

The East Hampton Food Pantry's annual Harvest Food Drive will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn in front of the East Hampton Middle School.

Regional planning at the nexus of client interests and local zoning laws will be the topic Thursday night when a panel of architects gets together at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor at 7.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, once known as the East Hampton Daycare and Learning Center, wants to hear from its alumni and their parents for a special project: a now-and-then style "book of stories."

Michael Wootton, a resident of Wainscott, was the lucky winner of the Wainscott Sewing Society's pinwheel quilt raffle on Friday night, the organization announced Saturday.

Judy Sleed of East Hampton, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and host of "The Play Is the Thing," an LTV show, tells her story publicly for the first time in "I Am Judit."

Events in East Hampton and Montauk will mark Veterans Day on Saturday. 

Poets, writers, songwriters, storytellers, and comedians are invited to an open mic on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

"No slammin', just jammin'," is the word. The event is for adults, teens, and children 9 and up.

If you can't make it in person, a Zoom link is available at uucsf.info/openmic.

LTV, East Hampton's public-access television station, has announced a special slate of programming Tuesday night to highlight "the historical importance of our elections."

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold the first of two trap-neuter-return clinics for feral cats on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center on Daniel's Hole Road in Wainscott, "promoting the well-being of feral cats and reducing their overpopulation."

A "rally for Israel and for peace" is how Larry Zimmerman of East Hampton is describing an event that he and Mitchell Agoos have organized for Sunday at 2 p.m. in Herrick Park. 

Registered voters in East Hampton and Southampton Towns have through Sunday to cast their ballots under New York State's early-voting provisions.

Reservations are now open for the Cormaria Retreat Center's afternoon high tea, which will take place on Thursday, Nov. 9, from 2 to 4 p.m.

A night of fright happens at the East Hampton Library on Saturday for adults and children 12 or older, and the aim is to get visitors quaking in their boots.

The Springs Food Pantry’s annual Chowdah Chowdown fund-raiser will happen under a tent at Ashawagh Hall on Saturday from noon to 3. Ticket holders get unlimited chowder, wine from Channing Daughters Winery, draft beer from Springs Brewery, and to-go containers.

It's the 25th anniversary of the Bridgehampton Lions Club's Carving Contest, a creative extravaganza taking place on Monday starting at 5 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House.

This weekend will bring part three of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society's six-week celebration of the Paumanok Path's 25th anniversary, and three hikes are scheduled for Saturday, each ending by Napeague Harbor in Amagansett. Those who register by 5 p.m. on Wednesday can reserve spots on a Hampton Hopper shuttle bus that will take them from Neapeague Meadow Road to the starting points.

As part of its Operation Medicine Cabinet, the Southampton Town Police Department is encouraging people to take unwanted, unused, and/or expired medications to its drug take-back day on Saturday.

People can drop off drugs, including both prescription and over-the-counter medications, lotions or creams, and pet medications, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at one of three locations: the police substation at the Bridgehampton Commons, the Hampton Bays Community Center, or the Flanders Community Center.

The Bridgehampton Fire Department will hold an open house and barbecue on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its School Street headquarters. The public can tour the firehouse, meet the crews who help put out fires and save lives, and see all the trucks they use.

Ahead of the Nov. 7 general election, key deadlines for voter registration and absentee balloting are coming up in the next two weeks.

Caroline Doctorow and the Kennedys will bring folk-rock and roots music to Bridgehampton.

East Hampton Village's Department of Public Works began its leaf pickup program on Oct. 9 and will continue to pick up leaves through Dec. 8.

The Springs Citizens Advisory Committee is sponsoring a forum on drinking water quality at 6 p.m. on Monday at the East Hampton Library.

The Sag Harbor Garden Center on Spring Street will host a pumpkin party on Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital will offer free influenza vaccine shots Friday on a walk-in basis from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at Parrish Hall at 235 Herrick Road in Southampton Village.

What has been described as "a dark chapter in Long Island's labor history," the operation of migrant labor camps, will be the topic of discussion on Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Wainscott Chapel at 65 Main Street.

The Long Pond Greenbelt will host its annual celebration behind the South Fork Natural History Museum on Saturday starting at 10 a.m.

Heading east? You'll have your choice of activities in Montauk from the Montauk Chamber of Commerce’s Fall Festival to an open house at the firehouse and two days of extra fun at the Montauk Lighthouse.

An event that many dog owners look forward to all year, the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons Stroll to the Sea dog walk, will happen on Sunday morning starting at the East Hampton Historical Society’s Mulford Farm at 9. This will be ARF’s 30th Stroll to the Sea, and the two-mile walk will go from the farm to Main Beach and back. 

This weekend brings Amagansett Maritime Heritage Day, the annual Tyler Valcich Memorial Car Show, and Pet Sunday at St. Michael's.