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East Hampton Library’s annual free Children’s Fair is set for Sunday from 2 to 5:30 p.m. at Herrick Park, with rides, carnival games, food, performers, crafts, and authors signing their children’s books.

The weather may have something different in mind, but the Sag Harbor Fire Department carnival is set to return to Havens Beach for a five-night run starting on Tuesday.

According to the Concerned Citizens of Montauk, which tests water bodies in Montauk, Amagansett, Springs, and East Hampton for the enterococcus bacteria, bacteria levels this week were abnormally high both in the Montauk area and in Napeague Harbor. 

The Grammy Award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Laufey will perform at the Montauk Lighthouse on Saturday at 7 p.m. in a concert to benefit the Montauk Historical Society. Looking ahead to next weekend, John Mulaney, a three-time Emmy-winning writer, actor, and comedian, will perform.

East Hampton Town’s annual junior lifeguard tournament, bringing together trainees ages 9 to 15 for competitions in the water and on the beach, is set to take place at Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett on Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. 

What's better than a juicy yard sale on a summer weekend? A big, communitywide one, where people from all walks of life here can come together to sell unwanted items and hunt for treasures. Such a sale will take place on Aug. 10, a Saturday, at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

No Sailor, a folk-rock group based in New York City and Philadelphia, will play at the Stephen Talkhouse on Monday night at 7. Two local musicians, Ryan Sherman on drums and Morgan Tracey on bass, will join the set.

The Road Forward Scholarship Fund's recent fund-raiser, Cabaret for a Cause at LTV Studios in Wainscott, was a resounding success with 150 people attending and $186,000 raised for scholarships.

There will be two old-fashioned fish fries over the next two days, at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton on Friday and at the Eastville Community Historical Sciety in Sag Harbor on Saturday.

In a positive turn of events, the Concerned Citizens of Montauk’s weekly water testing earlier this week revealed lower levels of bacteria across the numerous testing sites in the Montauk, Amagansett, Springs, and East Hampton areas. Unfortunately, enterococcus bacteria levels in Montauk’s Fort Pond remain high. 

At its E.A.T. in the Hidden Gardens fund-raiser on July 13, the Springs Food Pantry raised more than $100,000 for its work to feed those in need, with donations continuing to come in, a representative wrote this week.

Dog moms and dads, there's just enough time to get your furry best friends ready for their close up at sixth annual Hamptons Dog Show on Saturday, Aug. 3, at the American Legion in Amagansett.