Grind

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.

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

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.

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.

"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. 

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

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.

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.