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On Wednesday at 7, the Noyac Civic Council will host a virtual Meet the Candidates night to give community members a chance to get to know the four people seeking seats on the Sag Harbor School Board.

Chris Paparo, the manager of Stony Brook Southampton's Marine Science Center, is also birder, and on Tuesday at 5 he'll share some of his avian expertise at a virtual Accabonac Protection Committee forum titled "Birding From Your Beach Chair." 

For all those creative types out there, Tuesday is the day to flex those artistic muscles.

The East Hampton Star won awards for its East magazine and coverage of education in the New York Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Contest, and its deputy managing editor, Christine Sampson, took third place in the writer of the year category.

The judges praised Ms. Sampson’s “ability to handle a variety of topics with comprehension and style,” and said her “work showed solid writing on a variety of assignments.” Annette Hinkle of The Sag Harbor Express took first in that category.

Patrons of the Montauk Library can now add children's toys, puzzles, and games to the list of books, movies, and other materials that can be borrowed.

The season for fluke, which opened on Sunday in New York State, will now run through Oct. 9 giving anglers an extra 12 days to catch them, and the minimum size limit has been decreased by half an inch. 

The first May Day 5K Run and Walk will set off from Main Beach on Sunday at 9 a.m., rain or shine, and the good news for participants and spectators alike is that the weather is expected to be perfect for the occasion.

The first-ever Hamptons Pride Parade, celebrating the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, will take place in East Hampton Village at noon on June 4.

Its organizer, Tom House, founder of the nonprofit Hamptons Pride Inc., announced this week that he is seeking volunteers to help organize it as well as people to march in it. Those who would like to contribute their time or take part with a parade float or community group can sign up at hamptonspride.org.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, along with Nick LaLota, a Republican seeking election in the First Congressional District, and Alison Esposito, who is in the running for the role of New York State's lieutenant governor on Lee Zeldin's ticket, will hold a community event addressing crime, quality of life, and criminal justice on Wednesday evening.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter's pickleball clinic this week comes at just the right time, with the relatively new sport rising in popularity locally and nationally.

Temple Adas Israel has raised $36,000 to aid Jewish organizations in their humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

"About a quarter of our galaxy's two hundred billion stars are orbited by planets that are habitable in the way Earth is. Given so many worlds — fifty billion in our own galaxy! — with similar life-friendly conditions, it's very likely that intelligent organisms have evolved elsewhere," writes the astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb in his book "Extraterrestrial." He will give a talk for the Hamptons Observatory and BookHampton on Tuesday.