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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.

The Springs Food Pantry’s annual Chowdah Chowdown fund-raiser will happen under a tent at Ashawagh Hall on Saturday from noon to 3. Ticket holders get unlimited chowder, wine from Channing Daughters Winery, draft beer from Springs Brewery, and to-go containers.

It's the 25th anniversary of the Bridgehampton Lions Club's Carving Contest, a creative extravaganza taking place on Monday starting at 5 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House.

This weekend will bring part three of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society's six-week celebration of the Paumanok Path's 25th anniversary, and three hikes are scheduled for Saturday, each ending by Napeague Harbor in Amagansett. Those who register by 5 p.m. on Wednesday can reserve spots on a Hampton Hopper shuttle bus that will take them from Neapeague Meadow Road to the starting points.

As part of its Operation Medicine Cabinet, the Southampton Town Police Department is encouraging people to take unwanted, unused, and/or expired medications to its drug take-back day on Saturday.

People can drop off drugs, including both prescription and over-the-counter medications, lotions or creams, and pet medications, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at one of three locations: the police substation at the Bridgehampton Commons, the Hampton Bays Community Center, or the Flanders Community Center.

The Bridgehampton Fire Department will hold an open house and barbecue on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its School Street headquarters. The public can tour the firehouse, meet the crews who help put out fires and save lives, and see all the trucks they use.