Solar energy on a first-come-first-served basis? It may sound unusual, but that’s what’s on the table for residents and small-business owners in Southampton’s half of Sag Harbor Village and other nearby parts of the township, through a solar project being constructed at the North Sea Transfer Station.

In honor of the official start of autumn on Sunday, we have a few specific suggestions for making the most of every moment of your favorite month.

The East Hampton Town Board is talking about zoning tweaks that had been proposed in response to a more all-encompassing call for greater building restraints. Just as it had discussed back in May.

An office goldfish heads to the great fish pond in the sky.

My mother, Helen Selden Rattray, has the longevity genes of the Greenland shark. She will be turning 90 years old on Sunday.

Feeding the beast: On the 800-pound gorilla that is the National Football League.

It can happen here: Applying a professor’s Tourism Area Life Cycle metric is revealing, bordering on bracing.

Real estate is king here. And here are the latest reported moves.

After several years of lobbying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority for money to improve Long Island Rail Road infrastructure and expand commuter train service on the South Fork, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced Wednesday that $260 million has been added to the M.T.A.'s capital plan to do just that.

A program called Poet Meets Novelist will bring Grace Schulman, author of "Again, the Dawn: New and Selected Poems, 1976-2022," and Elizabeth Birkelund, whose novel "A Northern Light in Provence" was published in May, to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs on Saturday at 4 p.m.

August Gladstone is a screenwriter, poet, musician, songwriter, comedic actor, and clown, with a TV pilot and a book of poetry among his many undertakings.

You want New York in the ’70s? Guy Trebay’s “Do Something” is a small masterpiece celebrating its art, lit, and grit, its easy rents and hard times.

Sandra Vorpahl says her cooking style is "comfort food," and she has friends, family, and community members who devour it with gusto.

Taylor Mac, the performance artist and drag icon, will make his first Hamptons appearance at Guild Hall.

LTV Studios will host a panel on Latin American art, a show of cabaret, jazz, and blues standards, and a classical music quartet.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival will bring four days of live music to the village, most of it free of charge.

The Hamptons Film Festival has added three new narrative features to its previously announced slate of films.

A call for plays from Bay Street, a poetry read-in at The Church, tea ceremony workshops at LongHouse, and "The Batwoman" film at the Parrish.

Four realists at Grenning, copyright presentation at LTV, watercolors at Ashawagh, sundial workshop at Leiber, and a group show at Depot.

Rosh Hashana meals from L&W, oyster tastings at Women's Art Center, harvest party at Wolffer Estate, and specials at Bell and Anchor.