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The Montauk Seafood Festival returns to the downtown green this weekend, with food from local restaurants under a big tent, live music, and children's activities, all to benefit two charitable organizations.

The Springs Library has announced two writing workshops plus a weekly story hour for children.

The Sweet Spot is starting the 2024-25 school year off by offering a 25-percent discount to students, teachers, bus drivers, and other school employees on Tuesday, the first day of school in the East Hampton School District.

"To the teachers who are getting ready to welcome your students to school today, we thank you," the ice cream and candy shop said on Instagram. "To the students, we wish you the best year ever!"

The Sweet Spot is located at 106 Newtown Lane.

The Rum Challenge, the fall race series at the Breakwater Yacht Club, begins on Wednesday at 6 p.m., and will run every Wednesday evening until Oct. 16.

The 78th Shinnecock Indian Nation powwow is planned for this weekend. The annual celebration of Indigenous cultural traditions brings together Native groups from many regions and offers educational opportunities for the community at large.

Summer’s almost over, kids — school is right around the corner.

The Residential Energy Affordability Partnership Program on Long Island will be the subject of an information session at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at the Amagansett Library.

East Hampton Town will honor Nancy Kelley, a longtime advocate for land preservation and stewardship, with a plaque dedication ceremony at the Nancy Kelley Nature Preserve on Monday morning.

Amistad Week, organized by the Southampton African American Museum, the Eastville Community Historical Society, and the Montauk Historical Society, features six days of events centered around a replica of the schooner Amistad, which anchored off Fort Pond Bay in Montauk in the summer of 1839 after the enslaved men on board overthrew their captors and gained control of the ship. 

The weather forecast looks pleasant for Saturday, when Lois Peltz and Jerry Brown will lead a bike ride through Wainscott, Sagaponack, and Water Mill for the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society from 9 a.m. to noon.

This annual festival of community pride will take place on Saturday from 1 to 8 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

Are you someone living in Suffolk County who enjoys reading? If so, there’s still time to join the Summer Library Tour, a program of the Suffolk Cooperative Library System running through Aug. 31. The goal is to visit as many libraries as possible, according to an announcement.

The Wainscott Sewing Society's popular annual rummage sale is set for Saturday at the Wainscott Chapel from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. "Come find your treasure," the society says on its Facebook page.

Shoe-Inn's 27th annual Hamptons warehouse sale may be the perfect chance to get your hands on your dream shoes, before someone else snatches them up first.

The volunteer-run program known as East Hampton Compost, created in collaboration with ReWild Long Island and the Town of East Hampton, is expanding its list of food scrap drop-off locations to Montauk.

As of yesterday, the Antigua and Barbuda Hampton Challenge Regatta set for Saturday in Sag Harbor was still on the schedule. The event includes a related Taste of the Caribbean awards party that evening to raise money for I-Tri, a nonprofit that promotes athletics and empowerment for middle school girls.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

LTV, East Hampton's public access television station, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a new roof.

Looking ahead to its Disney World competition trip in 2025, Our Fabulous Variety Show, a nonprofit performing arts group, will hold a bake sale fund-raiser on Friday at the East Hampton Farmers Market.