Around 9, cars start pulling up and guys meander onto the field, one by one, groggy and disheveled, animated by caffeine and muscle memory. They soft-toss and take B.P. and let the weight of the week rise into the morning mist.

A noticeable uptick in sales is here recorded, for all you real estate watchers out there.

The Springs Library has announced two writing workshops plus a weekly story hour for children.

Sara Hanahan, a jazz saxophonist who tours nationwide and internationally, will perform with her quartet at the Parrish Art Museum.

This was a weird summer. We witnessed it all, from epic rainfall to sustained heat waves to jungle-like humidity. On the fishing scene, anglers are looking forward to the change of seasons.

East Hampton High School varsity sports competition was to have begun in earnest this week, with the football, girls tennis, girls soccer, boys soccer, field hockey, boys volleyball, and golf teams all scheduled to have seen action as of Thursday evening.

The sky on Grand Prix Sunday, which caps the weeklong Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton, was uncustomarily gray, and, for the first time anyone could remember, a light rain fell as 40 horse-and-rider entries vying for the $132,000 winner’s share of the $400,000 Longines purse traversed a tough, sinuous 17-effort course that posed problems just about everywhere.

The summer 7-on-7 men’s soccer league’s championship seems to be a tossup given the fact that the top four teams went into the playoffs this week on virtually an even keel.

Josh Kessler's career included antiques restoration and opening a recording studio before he found his niche as a sought-after master of piano restoration and tuning.

In Kathy Engel’s timely new collection, “Dear Inheritors,” the poems do not sit still, they rise to the occasion of deep conversation, particularly when the subjects are tough.

Guild Hall stays busy with a Paul Simon documentary from “American Masters,” a performance of a new work for solo piano, and its annual Garden as Art event.

Michael Light's large-scale photographs range from the gardens of Madoo to nude human statuary to distressed landscapes on Napeague and Stony Hill.

LongHouse Reserve's Landscape Legends program will honor the artist Mary Miss and feature presentations by her and three landscape architects, a luncheon, and garden tours.

The Southampton Arts Center will host Jazz from Santi Debriano, auditions for staged readings of Truman Capote's holiday stories, and Surf Movie Night.

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.