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The East Hampton Presbyterian Church’s “Wonderful Christmastime” holiday handbell concert is on Friday, and on Saturday at St. Luke's there's a performance of the “Christmas Oratorio” by Camille Saint-Saens and a singalong with a full choir.

With the winter holiday season in full swing, efforts are afoot in Bridgehampton to help those in need.

LTV Studios in Wainscott and the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will host "A Concert for Israel" to support humanitarian relief in that country on Wednesday at LTV with performances by Mick Hargreaves, Jeffrey Levitt, Peter Martin Weiss, and Lauren Lebowitz.

The East Hampton Historical Farm Museum at the corner of North Main and Cedar Streets has invited Santa for a visit and photo opportunities on Thursday evening.

The popular Deck the Farm celebration at Amber Waves Farm in Amagansett happens on Saturday from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. 

Actual, real-life reindeer will be among the extremely jolly attractions at Saturday’s Magic of Montauk holiday fair, and on Sunday, Santa visits the firehouse.

A tree lighting, Santa at Long Wharf, Hanukkah at Temple Adas Israel and more.

Proceeds raised by a 5K run and walk on Saturday at 9 a.m. starting from East Hampton's Main Beach will support the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s children’s programs and camp.

A holiday tea at the Presbyterian church, live music on the steps of London Jewelers, and two concerts at the library are on tap this weekend.

The curtain rises Friday on Our Fabulous Variety Show's take on the classic "A Christmas Carol" story, starring a character called Jacob Marley McFly, lots of time-travel high jinks and ghosts of 1980s past, "and so much dancing," says one of its directors, Anita Boyer.

A new Barnes & Noble bookstore opens at noon on Friday, Dec. 1, in the Bridgehampton Commons.

A lineup of local rock-and-roll royalty will take the stage at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Wednesday in a benefit for Joe O’Haire, a Montauk photographer recovering from an Oct. 17 motorcycle accident involving an 18-wheeler in Texas that left him with numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung. 

If shopping for handmade, locally sourced gifts is your cup of tea, well, this is the right weekend for it. Artists and vendors will be selling their wares at open-house events, festivals, and craft fairs in hamlets and villages across the South Fork on Saturday and Sunday.

The Montauk School Board is looking for a resident of the school district to fill out the time remaining in Tom Flight's board term. Mr. Flight was elected this month to the East Hampton Town Board and will be sworn in by the town clerk in January. His school board term expires June 30, 2024.

This winter, Southampton Town is offering a still-water lifeguard certification course that can qualify a participant to serve at a bay beach and provide the basics needed to move on to an ocean lifeguarding program.

The holiday toy drive of the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry has begun. New, unwrapped toys can be donated at the Long Wharf Windmill daily through Dec. 11 between noon and 5:30 p.m.

The holiday season arrives at the Montauk Lighthouse this weekend, starting on Saturday with the annual Lighting of the Light from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

The East Hampton Food Pantry's annual Harvest Food Drive will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn in front of the East Hampton Middle School.

Regional planning at the nexus of client interests and local zoning laws will be the topic Thursday night when a panel of architects gets together at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor at 7.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, once known as the East Hampton Daycare and Learning Center, wants to hear from its alumni and their parents for a special project: a now-and-then style "book of stories."

Michael Wootton, a resident of Wainscott, was the lucky winner of the Wainscott Sewing Society's pinwheel quilt raffle on Friday night, the organization announced Saturday.

Judy Sleed of East Hampton, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and host of "The Play Is the Thing," an LTV show, tells her story publicly for the first time in "I Am Judit."

Events in East Hampton and Montauk will mark Veterans Day on Saturday. 

Poets, writers, songwriters, storytellers, and comedians are invited to an open mic on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

"No slammin', just jammin'," is the word. The event is for adults, teens, and children 9 and up.

If you can't make it in person, a Zoom link is available at uucsf.info/openmic.

LTV, East Hampton's public-access television station, has announced a special slate of programming Tuesday night to highlight "the historical importance of our elections."

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold the first of two trap-neuter-return clinics for feral cats on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center on Daniel's Hole Road in Wainscott, "promoting the well-being of feral cats and reducing their overpopulation."

A "rally for Israel and for peace" is how Larry Zimmerman of East Hampton is describing an event that he and Mitchell Agoos have organized for Sunday at 2 p.m. in Herrick Park. 

Registered voters in East Hampton and Southampton Towns have through Sunday to cast their ballots under New York State's early-voting provisions.

Reservations are now open for the Cormaria Retreat Center's afternoon high tea, which will take place on Thursday, Nov. 9, from 2 to 4 p.m.

A night of fright happens at the East Hampton Library on Saturday for adults and children 12 or older, and the aim is to get visitors quaking in their boots.