The Hamptons Festival of Music's orchestral concert series will feature three programs ranging from Beethoven and Mozart to Ravel and Victoria Bond.

Jazz at Duck Creek and the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton History Museum's house tour, vocals and storytelling at the Leiber Collection, open call at Bay Street.

Springs show features art and history, a tour of "Sculpture at Sylvester Manor" on Shelter Island, contemporary painting in London, two solo shows at Halsey McKay.

Pizza with a view is now an option on Fridays and Saturdays at Cedar Point Park, and Amagansett's Jim Lubetkin takes home a slew of prize ribbons at the New York State Fair.

The Sweet Spot is starting the 2024-25 school year off by offering a 25-percent discount to students, teachers, bus drivers, and other school employees on Tuesday, the first day of school in the East Hampton School District.

The Rum Challenge, the fall race series at the Breakwater Yacht Club, begins on Wednesday at 6 p.m., and will run every Wednesday evening until Oct. 16.

The Southampton Town Police Department is seeking the public's help in finding a 30-year-old Southampton man whose family has been unable to locate or contact him since Aug. 22.

One man's Mercedes was said to contain a hidden compartment with 50 glassine envelopes of cocaine, and the D.A. said police found over 1,000 individual baggies of cocaine, 589 grams of cocaine, 269 grams of ecstasy, and $19,046 in cash in the Springs house where the man lived when he was arrested on Aug. 2.

One man's Mercedes was said to contain a hidden compartment with 50 glassine envelopes of cocaine, and the D.A. said police found over 1,000 individual baggies of cocaine, 589 grams of cocaine, 269 grams of ecstasy, and $19,046 in cash in the Springs house where the man lived when he was arrested on Aug. 2.

Sunday’s main event at the Hampton Classic, the $30,000 Open Jumper Challenge, was won by Sydney Shulman Desiderio and Villamoura, topping a field of 41.

In Sagaponack residents continued last week to push back at plans to erect a 100-foot cell tower just south of Sagaponack Village Hall off Montauk Highway, with residents calling it an “eyesore” that cuts against village character and others raising concerns about the health effects of the 5G technology it would support.

“Everyone believes some revisions are necessary,” said Tim Treadwell, senior harbormaster with the East Hampton Town’s Marine Patrol, the enforcement agency on the beach. “It has become problematic. There are so many dogs.” And lifeguards trying to enforce restrictions are often harrassed or ignored by dog owners.

The trails are mapped today, but when two former college classmates began their horseback rides on them decades ago, without maps or smartphones to guide them, the goal was to find a path that stretched through the woods and reached the edge of the ocean. With an expanded group of women, they are still exploring the trails today.

What appeared at first to be a quirky but heartwarming story about a friendly mute swan that had taken to roaming the streets of Sag Harbor, often stopping traffic and interacting with people, ended tragically just a few weeks after the bird had become a summertime character on the north end of Main Street.

A disciplinary hearing ongoing since July 10, conducted by the New York State Education Department, seeks to answer the question of whether the Amagansett School principal took a red envelope containing a holiday gift card meant for another school employee.

“This has been a longtime problem on the South Fork,” Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. said in reference to a universal truth about Long Island: that gas prices generally get higher the farther east you go. The change in gas prices between UpIsland and the South Fork can be startling, and the change from just Southampton to Montauk even more so.

On Sept. 6, 1898, Col. Theodore Roosevelt paid a visit to the Montauk Lighthouse, signing this guestbook owned by Capt. J.G. Scott, the Lighthouse keeper.

“For me, it was one of the most challenging — grueling at parts — but challenging things I’ve ever done. And yet, it was one of the most exhilarating and euphoric when it was over,” Bennett Schmidt of East Hampton said of his participation in the 434-mile Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, or RAGBRAI.

John Wanag, who ran MTK Custom Rods and Repair, died of cardiac arrest at home in Springs last Thursday. He was 64.

Denise O’Brian-Lutkins, a gardener and self-taught painter, died of cardiopulmonary arrest at home in Montauk on Aug. 16. She was 60.