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May is National Bicycle Safety Month, and last Thursday the East Hampton Town Board passed a resolution declaring it Bike Safety Month in the town.

The FoodLab at Stony Brook Southampton has vegetable and herb seedlings available at its greenhouse behind the student center on campus at 39 Tuckahoe Road.

The Suffolk County Water Authority has more than doubled its account credits for thrifty tech, including low-flow showerheads and "smart" irrigation controllers.

The Sag Harbor School District has scheduled a public forum "addressing the proposed acquisition" of five wooded properties on Marsden Street for Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the Pierson Middle and High School auditorium.

Simultaneously on Saturday, across the South Fork, several organizations are holding Earth Day cleanup events and are seeking volunteers to pitch in.

Fabian Almazan and his quintet will play at the Southampton Arts Center on Saturday. The concert will be preceded at 5 p.m. with an exhibition of photographs by Ric Kallaher and a pre-show reception.

Earth Day is Saturday, and GeekHampton on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is celebrating with three days of e-waste recycling. Starting Thursday, you can drop off your old computer gear between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. 

Rectangular mountains of paper getting you down? Drawers full? File cabinets flowing over? This Thursday, the Bridgehampton Fire Department, at 64 School Street, and the Hampton Library are co-sponsoring a Shred Day to help you move past the piles from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.

In a promotion that will run through July 10, PSEG Long Island and Google have partnered to offer customers a Google Nest thermostat at a 93-percent discount.

To mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will have Deborah Dwork, director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the City University of New York Graduate Center, speaking after the 11 a.m. service on Sunday.

The Montauk Library is preparing for its first-ever teen clothing swap, in which high school students "can exchange gently used clothing with each other, engaging in more sustainable fashion practices."

Just in time for National Poetry Month, a three-session poetry workshop starts on Saturday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Amagansett Library.

This is the last week to sign up for the weekly community-supported agriculture program at Marilee Foster's farm stand on Sagg Main Street. Baskets full of produce can be picked up on Fridays beginning April 14.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has closed the Parrish Hall drive-through Covid-19 testing site in response to a decline in positive cases and the easing of New York State Department of Health and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, the hospital announced on Monday.

Last year's East Hampton Town recycling center permits officially expired on Friday, meaning it's time for "self-hauler" residents to renew.

Saddened and frustrated by the shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville in which three children and three adults were killed earlier this week, a Sag Harbor parent has organized a vigil on Sunday evening in the garden at Sen restaurant to honor those lost.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, North Fork, and Shelter Island along with Stony Brook Southampton Hospital and the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton will tip their hats to hard-working nurses through the ages with a program on Monday at 6 p.m. at the library.

Allison McGovern, an anthropological archaeologist and a lecturer in anthropology at Columbia University, will discuss her research on the origins of East Hampton's Freetown neighborhood “and its evolution into the late-20th century” on Saturday at 1 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church.

"Please reopen the Home Exchange located at East Hampton Town Recycling Center as soon as possible," asks a new online petition created this week on Change.org by Carin Constant.

The curtain rises Thursday on the Pierson High School theater department's production of "Cinderella" by Rodgers and Hammerstein. In this musical, audiences can expect "a new take on the classic story full of charm, humor, and magic, with an incredible student cast," its director, Bethany Dellapolla, said.

The Springs Food Pantry will hold this year's Chili Chowdown on Saturday at noon at the Springs Firehouse, featuring unlimited chili from local chefs, restaurants, and markets, wine from Channing Daughters, and a special brew from Springs Brewery.

With the Montauk Friends of Erin's St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday, the season officially begins in East Hampton Town's easternmost hamlet. 

A Stand With Afghan Women benefit happens Thursday night from 6 to 9 at the meetinghouse of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork.

Volunteers are needed to help pick up trash from road sides in downtown Montauk on Friday morning.

Petitions for candidates interested in serving on public school boards of education are officially available from district clerks across the state. Paperwork is due to be handed in directly to the clerks by 5 p.m. on April 17; the vote is on May 16.

In recognition of Women's History Month, the East Hampton Library has mounted a new exhibit in the display cases in the front lobby "focusing on how women shaped and changed the character and reputation of the East Hampton community through social and volunteer organizations and activities."

There are lots of things going on — growing on — at the FoodLab at Stony Brook Southampton.

In Sag Harbor and Amagansett this weekend, a bake sale and a spaghetti dinner, respectively, will raise money for charitable endeavors.

The annual Am O'Gansett Parade happens on Saturday at noon on the hamlet's Main Street. This year, Joe and Sal LaCarrubba will serve as grand marshals.

Bay Street Theater has put out a call to teen writers to enter its Writing the Wave: The 2023 New Works Creative Writing Competition. Kids 13 and up from across Suffolk County can enter original works in the genres of poetry, spoken word, rap, monologue, song, or short scene.