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The New York State Department of Transportation will soon repair cracks on Montauk Highway from Knoll Road in Shinnecock Hills to Tuckahoe Lane in Southampton, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced Friday.

Fort Pond and Big Reed Pond in Montauk were free of harmful blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, blooms when Concerned Citizens of Montauk took water samples earlier this week, but a number of testing sites in Montauk, Amagansett, Springs, and East Hampton showed elevated levels of enterococcus bacteria, even before Wednesday's heavy rains.

The Montauk Seafood Festival will return for its seventh year under a tent at Gurney’s Star Island Resort and Marina on Sept. 7 and 8 from noon to 5 p.m.

The 73rd annual Shinnecock Powwow, one of the largest powwows in the country, gets started tomorrow in Southampton and runs through Labor Day, featuring dancing and vendors. The grounds open at 3 p.m. tomorrow and at 10 a.m. Saturday through Monday. Dancers make their grand entry at 7 tomorrow night, and again at 12:30 and 7 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and at 12:30 p.m. on Monday.

Admission is $12 for adults, $10 for senior citizens, children 6 to 12 years old, and the disabled. Children 5 and under are free, as is parking. MasterCard and Visa are accepted. Pets are not allowed.

The Center for Science Teaching and Learning in Rockville Centre wants Long Islanders to suggest names for its two recently arrived emus.

Steven Ringel, the executive director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce, who helped launch the spring, fall, and summer fairs held in East Hampton Village, is leaving the post at the end of August, the chamber announced on Friday. 

Bacteria levels dropped to some of their lowest numbers all summer this week at many water bodies Concerned Citizens of Montauk tests, including some with consistently high levels like East Creek at Lake Montauk, which showed low levels of the enterococcus bacteria for the first time since March.

"This was a positive week for water quality!" Kate Rossi-Snook, an environmental advocate with C.C.O.M, wrote of the results. 

Saturday offers a chance to properly dispose of household hazardous waste. The Town of Southampton will hold a STOP day — for Stop Throwing Out Pollutants — at the Sag Harbor transfer station on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where did grandma's old, engraved table really come from? Randy Kolhoff, founder of Black Swan Antiques, might have the knowledge to answer some variation of that question at the Sag Harbor Historical Society on Friday.

An Antiques Show and Tell will let visitors ask Mr. Kolhoff, who's sold antiques for 13 years, about the origins of interesting or unusual objects they have at home. Mr. Kolhoff also owns Black Swan Meadows, part of the very popular Brimfield antique market in Massachusetts.

The Center for Therapeutic Riding of the East End, which offers riding opportunities to children and adults with cognitive, physical, or emotional disabilities, will begin its 10th anniversary celebration at the Sebonack Golf Club in Southampton Thursday from 6 to 9 p.m. Horses Changing Lives will be an evening of cocktails and hors d’oeuvres with a 1970s theme.

Bacteria levels continued to drop at some Concerned Citizens of Montauk testing sites this week thanks to drier weather earlier in the week, but harmful blue-green algae continue to affect Fort Pond. Testing results for the week showed a bloom only at the southern end of the pond; concentrations at the north end dropped below the State Department of Environmental Conservation's threshold for harmful blooms but remain at high risk. To be safe, people are still urged to avoid contact with the water until further notice. 

The Writers hope to add to their winning streak over the Artists on Saturday, after winning 12-8 in the 2018 Artists and Writers Softball Game.

As crowds swarm in for a beautiful East End respite, the cannabis craze accompanies them.

It starts on Saturday when Mandala Yoga in Amagansett hosts a launch of CBD-infused pet treats made by the Alchemist’s Kitchen. The next night, the Hampton Cannabis Expo will feature panel discussions about the future of cannabis and an open bar at The Clubhouse in Wainscott.

CBD, a non-psychoactive component of the cannabis plant, is legal as an oil, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not approved it as an additive to foods meant for human consumption.

Stephen Rosen of East Hampton, an astrophysicist and expert on cosmic radiation, will give a talk about the continuing significance of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity at the Cutchogue New Suffolk Library on Friday at 6 p.m. 

New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. is hosting a food drive for the month of August, teaming up with Island Harvest, a hunger-relief organization, to collect food for those in need. Items collected on the South Fork will go to the Bridgehampton and Southampton food pantries.

The annual Shoe-Inn warehouse sale will start Tuesday and run daily through Monday, and again from Wednesday, Aug. 21, through Aug. 25, from 9 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. at the American Legion post in Amagansett.

Music for Montauk will kick off its summer series of outdoor concerts Thursday with “Brahms Gypsy Dances,” passionate quartet songs, accompanied by piano and strings, under a tent at Third House at Montauk County Park.

On Aug. 17 the selection will be Bach’s most festive Cantata No. 51, featuring strings, trumpet, keyboard, and vocals, with the operatic star Rachelle Durkin and trumpeter C.J. Camerieri. Both concerts, at 6:30 p.m., are free and family friendly. Concertgoers are encouraged to take picnics, chairs, and blankets.

The Springs Improvement Society’s 87th annual Fisherman’s Fair will take place on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the Ashawagh Hall grounds, with a children’s area for games and crafts, food and craft vendors, a restaurant raffle, live music, and, inside the hall, the Artists of the Springs invitational exhibition, which will be on view through Sunday.     

Sherrilyn Ifill, the president and director-counsel of the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund, will discuss matters of race and equality on the South Fork at 6 p.m. on Wednesday as part of the Thinking Forward Lecture Series at Guild Hall.

The free talk is in partnership with the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will host a free wildlife rehabilitation basics course at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday.

East Hampton High School's class of 1969 will hold 50th reunion activities during the weekend of Oct. 4 to 6, and has invited members of that graduating class to participate.

Throughout August, Bay Street is offering a variety of one-day theater classes every day of the week dedicated to nurturing teenage talent.

The family of Erika Bueno, an East Hampton High School student who died Monday, is raising money to pay for her funeral, and the school has provided counselors for peers who are affected by her death.

A harmful blue-green algal, or cyanobacteria, bloom continues to affect Fort Pond, according Concerned Citizens of Montauk's water testing results for the week of July 29. While toxin levels remain low, C.C.O.M. has again urged people to avoid contact with the water until further notice. 

Those who do come in contact with the water are advised to rinse immediately with clean water and seek medical attention if they experience nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea; skin, eye, or throat irritation, or allergic reactions or breathing difficulties after contact. 

The 42nd Infantry Division Band of the New York Army National Guard will perform at the Montauk Lighthouse on Monday at 2 p.m. The 90-minute show will feature a 28-piece band performing jazz, rock, and patriotic songs.

The Ocean Institute's series of free lectures at the Lighthouse with speakers from the Stony Brook University School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences continues today at 2 p.m. Teresa Schwemmer will discuss "Ocean Acidification: What Does It Mean for Long Island?"

The Watermill Center showed off an eclectic installment on Saturday night at the center’s annual benefit and auction, an "enchanted forest and performance art extravaganza" that featured works by more than 30 international artists. This year’s event was titled Tabula Rasa, or “clean slate,” a theme centered on evoking a mind-set absent of preconceived ideas. Robert Wilson, the founder and artistic director of the institute, was the mind behind the dynamic presentation. Photographs by Doug Kuntz

The nonprofit East End Birth Network has launched two new birth circles. Grupo de Nacimiento, a collaboration with the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, where it met for the first time on July 11, is a monthly support group for parents and the first Spanish-speaking Birth Circle on Long Island.

Some museum galleries downplay local artists, but not Guild Hall in East Hampton. Now in its 73rd year, its Clothesline Art Sale will host the work of 400 artists — most of them residents of the East End — on Saturday. Open with free admission from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., visitors can purchase paintings, drawings, collage, and small sculptures as well as jewelry and furniture in a Makers Market, in the Cheryl and Michael Minikes Garden.

Sunshine is in the weather forecast for Saturday, just in time for the annual Ladies Village Improvement Society fair. Always held on the last Saturday in July, 2019 marks the L.V.I.S.’s 123rd year putting on the fair. It happens from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 95 Main Street in East Hampton Village.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk has warned people to avoid contact with the water in Fort Pond after samples taken at two sites on the pond earlier this week showed a certified harmful blue-green algal bloom, which can post a threat to human and animal health.