Some 80 young basketball players spent Monday afternoon at the Ross School in Bridgehampton drilling their footwork, practicing dribbling and ball-handling skills, shooting hoops, and simulating offensive and defensive tactics under the expert eye of a celebrity coach: John Wallace, a former Knicks player visiting for a junior basketball clinic.

The Hampton Ballet Theatre School will perform its long-running annual production of “Peter and the Wolf” at two locations this week. The show, involving nearly 50 young dancers, will open at LTV Studios in Wainscott at 4:30 and 6:30 p.m. Monday, and be repeated at the Children’s Museum East End in Bridgehampton at those same times on Wednesday. 

The curtain rises Friday on the latest black-box-style production from South Fork Performing Arts, “The Music Man Jr.,” an adaptation of the classic musical for young performers. Plus: arts and crafts, Magic: The Gathering and Uno games, tie-dye T-shirts, international snacks, a scavenger hunt, and more coming up for kids and teens.

Dianne Ryan of Lazy Point in Amagansett discovered nine dead starlings under one electrical utility pole over the last few weeks, prompting calls to PSEG and the State Department of Environmental Conservation.

The WNET radio broadcasting group on Tuesday announced that it is extending its coverage of WLIW-FM by launching a new Montauk radio station, 88.7 FM. As Long Island’s only National Public Radio station, its signal will now reach across the entire East End and into southern Connecticut and Rhode Island. 

Work has already begun on the Suffolk County Water Authority’s new construction project in the Wainscott area. Eight thousand feet, or about 1.5 miles, of new water main will be added, creating new connections along the water distribution system in the area. It is set to be installed along Wainscott-Northwest Road, South Breeze Drive, and Route 114. 

This photo shows David J. Gardiner’s livestock in front of his barns. Gardiner (1840-1924) lived in the Gardiner Brown House, at 95 Main Street in East Hampton Village, with these barns on the property.

Nathan Halsey Dayton, an East Hampton native and Navy veteran who lived in North Fort Myers, Fla., died on June 28 at the age of 99. 

Jerome Tauber of Montauk, a mathematician and lawyer, died of pneumonia on July 3 at the age of 79.

Joan L. Loria of Belmont, Mass., an artist who had a long career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a curator, museum director, and author, died in hospice care in Minnesota on May 8. A frequent summer visitor to East Hampton, she was 88.

Neil Hausig, well known in East Hampton for his advocacy of affordable housing and his long career in real estate, died of cancer on July 13. He was 80.

“I was shocked when I learned I was in a water recharge overlay, I had no information about this,” the owner of a property on Wainscott Northwest Road said at an East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals meeting where he was seeking to overturn a ruling by Joseph Palermo, the town’s chief building inspector, that the parcel had been overcleared.

Just over a year after she first filed a formal complaint with the New York State Division of Human Rights, Officer Andrea M. Kess of the East Hampton Town Police Department has made new allegations that she has been the target of retaliation for stating her case.

The exhibition “Hats Off: 300 Years of Headwear in East Hampton,” which provides a narrative of the town’s history back to its founding, is on view every day from now until Sept. 1 at the East Hampton Historical Society’s Clinton Academy on Main Street.

At its E.A.T. in the Hidden Gardens fund-raiser on July 13, the Springs Food Pantry raised more than $100,000 for its work to feed those in need, with donations continuing to come in, a representative wrote this week.

LTV, East Hampton's public access television station, has launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for a new roof.

At Duck Creek, Erika Ranee has a solo show of 19 paintings and a group exhibition she curated of work by six artists who defy the conventions of painting.

Susan Page, USA Today’s Washington bureau chief, is out with “The Rulebreaker,” a fascinating biography of Barbara Walters full of surprises even for dedicated followers of her career in TV news.

Two star-studded evenings of short plays directed by Bob Balaban, plus jazz, comedy, and film at Guild Hall.

“Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein: The Musical" will give Bay Street audiences plenty to laugh with and laugh at.