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The outreach ministry at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church has invited the public to join in a fund-raiser to support the Rural and Migrant Ministry that will include a Justice Walk on Saturday from St. Thomas Episcopal Chapel to Amber Waves Farm, both on Main Street, Amagansett, starting at noon.

Fewer than 100 non-resident, full-season beach parking permits remain available for purchase, according to an announcement from East Hampton Village Hall sent out Monday afternoon.

Parties on Friday night at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett and Saturday night at the Clubhouse in Wainscott will each benefit programs for children. 

Local students will shine onstage this weekend in Sag Harbor, with the Pierson High School Drama Club putting on the musical “The Lightning Thief” at the high school and the dancers of Studio 3 taking the stage at Bay Street Theater for “The Enchanted Forest.”

Through a collaboration with the Watermill Center and Adam Baranello, a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, musician, and dancer, the East End Special Players Explorers Program will show off its latest project, Fusée, on Thursday.

Calling all local history buffs. The East Hampton Historical Society and the Greater East Hampton Chamber of Commerce are sponsoring a quiz bowl on Tuesday evening at the Palm that will put your knowledge of local history to the test.

The Huntertones, an acclaimed Brooklyn-based band that plays "genre-bending" and "unconventional" covers and original songs, is coming to the Clubhouse on Tuesday evening, featuring the East Hampton High School jazz band as the host and opening act.

The Surfrider Foundation is looking for volunteers on Sunday and next Thursday to help it "wake up the gardens" it helps to maintain at the village green between East Hampton Main Street and James Lane and behind the East Hampton Methodist Church. 

On Monday afternoon, a rare solar eclipse with near totality — between 83 and 90 percent — will be visible on the South Fork. Because looking directly at an eclipse can cause blindness, NASA urges eclipse viewers to take a critical safety measure beforehand: Obtain an ISO-12312-2-rated pair of safety glasses. Glasses are available at several places on the South Fork.

The Springs Food Pantry's Chili Chowdown To-Go is set for Saturday from noon to 2 at the Springs Presbyterian Church.

Voting on the Montauk Library's 2024-25 budget will take place on Tuesday from 2 to 8 p.m.

East Hampton Town's annual recycling center permits for residential and commercial vehicles will expire on Sunday.

Businesses looking to hire students for summer work are sought for a regional job fair at Southampton High School on April 11 from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Get your green on, Amagansett and Montauk!

After a night of rock and roll to benefit the Neo-Political Cowgirls, a band called the Fistys (a name shortened from a word that cannot be printed in newspapers) walked away as the overall judges' winner of the 2024 Battle of the Fantasy Girl Bands at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Saturday.

From prospective new faces to seasoned incumbents, candidates can now begin filing paperwork to run for school board seats in public schools throughout the East End and New York State.

Terry Sullivan, a singer, filmmaker, and writer from Sag Harbor, will present a program of Irish songs, including some in Gaelic, along with short historical tales and comedic anecdotes at the Cormaria Retreat House on Sunday afternoon.

The Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork is now accepting applications for its High Impact Community Outreach program.

In-person voting for the Amagansett Library’s annual board election is from Friday, March 15, through March 17.

The Messiah University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, currently touring churches and high schools in the Northeast, will stop Friday at the First Presbyterian Church of Southampton for an evening of uplifting chamber music starting at 7.

For prospective business owners and workers in the building trades, Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island will host a professional-licensing workshop on Thursday in conjunction with the Suffolk County Department of Labor, Licensing, and Consumer Affairs and the Riverhead School District.

Weather permitting, this weekend brings three opportunities for guided hikes in Montauk, one on one of Montauk's newest trails, the other two to observe seals.

For the East Hampton Town Police Department's spring 2024 Citizens Academy program, applications can be submitted until Monday, March 18. The 10-week session begins Wednesday, March 20.

The Bridgehampton Museum has reopened for the season, with a new director, Connor Flanagan, formerly the assistant director of the Southampton History Museum.

Attention drivers whose licenses expired and were renewed between March 1, 2020, and Aug. 31, 2021: If you self-certified the vision test required for renewal, but you have not yet submitted an updated vision test to the state, your driver's license was suspended on Dec. 31, 2023.

Stony Brook Medicine's mobile mammography van, equipped with an exam room and private dressing room, is coming to the Montauk Fire Department on Thursday, April 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Due to the demand for mammograms, these mobile appointments must be booked well in advance.

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation is sponsoring a health fair Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the meeting room of St. Luke's Episcopal Church on James Lane.

Roots of Peace, an evening with Noor A'wad, a Palestinian activist and speaker, and Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, is coming to the Unitarian Universalist meetinghouse Tuesday night at 7:30.

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Property owners who are 65 and over may be eligible for a break on the property tax they pay on their primary residence.