One of the most reliable harbingers of spring and the high season on the South Fork is the opening of the 16-acre LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton every April in the heart of daffodil and tulip season.

A fairy tale pop-rock musical, two history-based plays, and a drama set in a near future beset by climate change will be presented next week in Title Wave, Bay Street Theater’s new works festival.

About every expert on coastal erosion and sea level rise will tell you that the only solution for at-risk areas is to retreat. But right now, the only significant retreat appears to be by the East Hampton Town Board, which collapsed notably amid ill-informed pressure from some Montauk residents and resort owners who objected to a part of a long-range planning study.

In the Notre Dame Cathedral fire, there is a reminder of how buildings can hold a community together. Churches, old houses, beloved places provide a feeling of permanence in an impermanent world. They give us a sense of who we are, simply because they are an icon we can call our own. For France and for much of the world, as one man on a Paris street told The New York Times this week, the Notre Dame tragedy was like losing a member of the family.

A rough-and-tumble youth rugby game with a Rockaway side at Mattituck High.

In the absence of a meaningful top-of-the-ticket campaign for East Hampton Town Board this year, the time is right for voters to focus their attention on how the town trustees are chosen.

Vinny Alversa, Bonac’s coach, used four pitchers against Shoreham-Wading River, a perennial baseball power from which a couple of major leaguers have come, and all four pitched well.

“He did very well . . . it was an awesome experience,” said Kevin Smith, James Bradley’s coach and Montauk Downs’s longtime head golf pro, who went down to Augusta National with the Bradleys.

The 11-year-old part-time Montauker has finished no worse than second in United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association championships over the past five years, with a win just last month in Colorado.

A look back at the exploits of the future major leaguer Ross Gload.

Bonac softball, boys lacrosse, and baseball have games here today and tomorrow, while boys and girls tracksters head to the Westhampton Beach invitational Saturday.

“There is a calla lily thing going on in my life,” said the artist Priscilla Heine, about her first painting of that flower, whose name derives from the Greek word for beautiful.

An afternoon salon of piano music in Montauk and a film about some of the women who took the House of Representatives in last year's election

Bonac boys host Amityville at the track on Friday, the Hither Hills Trails Half-Marathon is Saturday in Montauk, and the baseball team faces Rocky Point here on Tuesday.

The fourth annual Sag Harbor Cultural Heritage Festival will take place Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at locations throughout the village. Sponsored by the 12 members of the Sag Harbor Cultural District, this year’s event, Sag Harbor: The Stories That Shape Us, will highlight the community’s literature, art, music, theater, and history.

The Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center will reopen today with an exhibition devoted to Joseph Glasco, whose friendships with artists such as Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock left a lasting impression in his work.

How does an artist reconcile the traditions of early landscape photographers with the imperatives of contemporary art? In the case of Thomas Joshua Cooper, he uses the best of both to invent something that is both paean and disruption.

A benefit salute to Ken Robbins, AAEH's "Visions of Spring," White Room goes "Retro," Keyes Art's "Women," and much more

Season previews through immersive theater, storytelling at SAC, Gene Casey in Bridge, Japanese textiles, and much more

HIFF will present three films that recreate the feeling of being at important European exhibitions of masters of painting throughout the centuries.