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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. 

An evening of music, dancing, food, and fun on Friday from 7 to 11 at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett will raise money for the Kendall Madison Foundation’s scholarship fund. Tickets cost $25 each or $40 for two and can be bought at the door. D.J. Dubbcity will provide the music, and there will be cash raffles.

There's a lot going on at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House this week. 

Amid mass layoffs of federal government employees, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine are encouraging them to consider working for New York State or the county.

East Hampton Democrats will host a rally at the Hook Mill green on Tuesday from 5:45 to 7 p.m. "to peacefully stand united for Democracy at home and abroad," according to the announcement.

The next guest in the Springs Historical Society’s Meet the Author series is Dava Sobel, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and the author of “Galileo’s Daughter.”

The East Hampton Historical Society will kick off its Winter Lecture Series on Friday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m. with a talk by Robert Hefner on the story behind the Dominy Shops Museum.

The East Hampton Lions Club will host a blood drive at the American Legion Post on Abraham’s Path and Montauk Highway in Amagansett on Monday from 11 a.m. to 7:45 p.m.

The New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation has two seal hikes and a nighttime owl hike on the agenda in the coming days. 

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will host an interfaith service celebrating the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with prayers and music on Sunday at 4 p.m. People who want to sing with the choir can join in rehearsals before the service.

Fans of village beaches, mark your calendars. The village’s in-person sale of nonresident beach parking permits to East Hampton Town residents who live outside village boundaries will take place on Jan. 28 at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street. The sale will begin at 9 a.m. and continue through 6 p.m. 

Esly Escobar of Westhampton Beach, an artist recently profiled in The Star, is looking for donations of children’s art supplies for a teaching trip to his home country of Guatemala in March.

Rick Whalen of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will lead a hike at a moderate pace through the woods and fields of the former Talmage Farm in northern Springs on Saturday.

Now that Christmas is in the rear-view mirror of 2024, what can be done with all those fir trees that are no longer needed to hold up the tinsel and lights in the living room? The Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack announced this week that it is accepting Christmas trees to chip down into compost that will sustain its gardens throughout the coming year.