HIFF has partnered with the Southampton Playhouse to extend its footprint into the Southampton community.

The Church in Sag Harbor will open its studio for artists of all types to work alongside its two artists-in-residence.

Paintings by Barbara Groot and Adriana Barone are on view at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor.

Opening at the Parrish are paintings and prints by James Howell and seascape photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto, two artists whose work engages with infinity and the natural world.

Dance performance at Guild Hall, tea ceremony at LongHouse, classical recital at Southampton Cultural Center, guitar master at Sag Harbor Masonic Club.

Invitational show at Ashawagh Hall, Alice Hope talk and film at LongHouse, East End Photographers at Depot Gallery, artist talk at Duck Creek.

Sunsets are on the menus at Inlet Seafood and Cedar Point County Park’s Sunset Pizza and Spirits, plus specials at Arthur and Sons and a happy hour at Baker House 1650.

The school year began on Tuesday at the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton, where 505 students were enrolled as of earlier this week.

The Montauk Seafood Festival returns on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. on the downtown green.

Eighteen months after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that “Today, at long last, we flip the switch and turn on the future,” the Trump administration is systematically switching that future off in favor of the past, in the form of fossil-fuel energy.

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, who is rumored to be mulling a 2026 run for East Hampton Town supervisor, said last week that he had not “made a final decision” and won’t do so until after the election this November. Supervisor Kathee-Burke Gonzalez, a Democrat, is running unopposed on this year’s ballot. When she wins, however, it will be only for a one-year term because of a change in the state election calendar.

The East Hampton Town Board has negotiated “important provisions” in connection with a lease renewal for the Maidstone Gun Club in Wainscott, which has been closed for almost three years and remains the subject of litigation brought by several residents who say bullets fired from the club have hit their houses.

Complaints about salespeople “attempting to distribute handbills” and “entering private yards and porches” have been appearing in the police logs since June, but the volume of complaints increased in the run-up to Labor Day: a young man, dressed in black with “Ecoshield” branding, often on an electric scooter, traveling door to door trying to get residents to sign up for the extermination service.

Last week, four days after 287 members of the Devon Yacht Club met to discuss the club’s long-projected relocation, expansion, and rebuilding, the East Hampton Town Planning Board determined that the ambitious plan will not require a detailed environmental review. The board’s decision came against the backdrop of a yacht club membership in revolt.

In the 38 horse-and-rider field Sunday at the Hampton Classic Horse Show, 10 entries hit the water jump in Nick Granat’s challenging course. Jessica Mendoza, an English rider on In the Air, went on to win the jump-off.

As fall approaches, fishing, too, is beginning to change. False albacore should be showing up shortly in and around Montauk, and fluke are pushing out of the bays and have begun their migration to their winter home.

Her Royal Highness Princess Margarita de Bourbon de Parme of the Netherlands was at the Hampton Classic Horse Show on Friday to learn all she could about American forward-style riding in an effort to popularize the hunter-jumper technique in Europe.

East Hampton High School students and staff adjusted fairly easily to their first smartphone-free day Tuesday, the principal, Sara Smith, told the school board, with the opening day of the year serving as a sort of test for a policy mandated by the state but long planned by the administration.

It almost looked like a dinner plate, Tim Miller said this week of the oyster his niece, Adelynn O’Shea, found while the family was boating near Three Mile Harbor.

The East Hampton Aviation Association will hold its sixth Just Plane Fun Day at East Hampton Town Airport on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.