Betsy Kenyon woke up at dawn on her 59th birthday two days after Christmas and decided to commemorate it with a 25.8-mile beach walk from Flying Point in Water Mill, where she lives part time, to Montauk.

The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees followed up a 4-point win at Greenport in December with a 71-37 blowout Friday in the Beehive. Plus Bonac swimming, track, and wrestling updates.

Dzmitry Daniliuk, the Buckskill Winter Club’s personable 30-year-old Belarus-born hockey coach, began playing the sport in Minsk at the age of 6, soon after fleeing a ballet class in which his mother had enrolled him.

Basketball and bowling on tap in the week ahead.

Susan Stroman, a multiple award-winning director and choreographer, has been named president of Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts, an assemblage of some 250 internationally recognized artists.

Hamptons Pride and Bay Street Theater have teamed up for the Hamptons Pride Film Series, which will launch with "Pride," a 2014 British historical comedy-drama.

The frigid winter weather brings out prix fixe menus and other special offerings from the 1770 House, Cittanuova, Il Buco al Mare, Bell and Anchor, and La Fondita.

"Folkie Fest: East Meets West" will bring five East End singer-songwriters working in the folk and country traditions to LTV Studios.

In connection with its current exhibition "Some Odes," The Church will host a read-in of poetry by Sharon Olds, Denis Johnson, and Paul Auster.

"Aida" from the Met at Guild Hall, poetry and music at St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton, book launch party at Ma's House on the Shinnecock Reservation.

"Springs Artists' Exhibition Posters" at Clinton Academy, Ralph Gibson gallery tour at the Parrish, Philippe Cheng butterfly photographs to benefit local nonprofit.

Fans of village beaches, mark your calendars. The village’s in-person sale of nonresident beach parking permits to East Hampton Town residents who live outside village boundaries will take place on Jan. 28 at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street. The sale will begin at 9 a.m. and continue through 6 p.m. 

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will host an interfaith service celebrating the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with prayers and music on Sunday at 4 p.m. People who want to sing with the choir can join in rehearsals before the service.

Compromise proved elusive again for the Paramount Development Group and the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board on Dec. 12, a month after the A.R.B.’s unanimous denial of Paramount’s application to build a residence at 84 Wainscott Hollow Road in Wainscott. Despite some changes to the plans, the board again denied the application to build a 7,374-square-foot house in place of the one there now.

The East Hampton Town Board discussed myriad topics related to Montauk, from boat slips to beach parking to traffic and drainage along Fort Pond.

The Whalers, a first-year entry in the Suffolk County High School Hockey League’s freshman division, routed Patchogue-Medford 11-1 Sunday night, plus winter track and Bonac hoops updates.

John Aldred will take over for Bill Taylor as a deputy clerk of the East Hampton Town Trustees, the group decided on Monday. Jim Grimes will continue as the other deputy clerk.

Andrey Trigubovich, named the new chief of East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue, has been a member of the group since 2009, and has served as a lieutenant and a first assistant chief. He takes over the top post from Barnaby Friedman, who served as chief for three terms.

The Sag Harbor Village Board held a hearing Tuesday night on legislation that would change the fee for holding events on village property and require that people planning events at commercial, residential, or public properties submit requests 60 days in advance of the event as opposed to the 30 days now required.

What’s old is still new: Back in 1950, the farmers of Suffolk County sought legislation to curb marauding deer and receive compensation for crop damage caused by the herds.