The Art Barge is afloat with four months of summer classes ranging from painting, collage, and encaustic to glass fusing, weaving, and printmaking.

Curator's talk on the paintings of Ted Carey, creative workshop with a thread artist, and a presentation by four Shinnecock women.

Group show at Eric Firestone, artist talk at The Church, East End Photographers in Springs, an artist-surfer on his "Montauk Surf Journals."

Ten students from high schools here have been nominated for their accomplishments in theater by East End Arts, the organization that hosts the Teeny Awards annually.

Piano duo at the Parrish Art Museum, celebrating Duke Ellington in Southampton, and a music fest highlights the history of Italian opera.

BBC’s are back at Montauk’s Shark Bar, happy-hour specials at Bostwick’s on the Harbor, and a northern European wine class at Park Place.

In the leadup to Memorial Day weekend, the New York State Department of Transportation, the Suffolk County Water Authority, and National Grid have been in the midst of a handful of projects affecting traffic in and around the heart of East Hampton Village. 

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El mes pasado se descubrió un poema dentro de un libro para niños en la Biblioteca de East Hampton titulado “Para mi hija Samantha”. Sin otra información para continuar además del nombre del dúo madre-hija, Carmen y Samantha, la biblioteca recurrió a las redes sociales para correr la voz y encontrarlas. El domingo esa búsqueda llegó a su fin.

The mighty storm that blew through East Hampton Thursday morning felled a large limb from a historic elm tree — one of a dwindling number of such trees that help give East Hampton Village its character.

On Wednesday from 5 to 6:30 p.m., Stony Brook Medicine will host free prostate cancer screenings at the Phillips Family Cancer Center on County Road 39A in Southampton.
 

It’s a sign of a healthy community when you have good people vying for a public position, especially one that can be relatively thankless, like that of school board member. Barbara Dayton, the Springs School Board’s president who lost her seat in Tuesday’s election, is an example of an upstanding citizen who has worked hard, achieved much, and deserves a tip of the hat.

Back in 1992, when the state turned a few wild turkeys loose in the woods, few people, if any, anticipated how well they would do. These days they are as common as deer but somewhat less destructive. In ecological terms, wild turkeys are a good thing.

The Cranberry Hole Road bridge in Amagansett has been closed for repairs for a year. And, from appearances, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is in no hurry to reopen it.

Among the plant-related projects that I have gotten into, none is as challenging as grafting apples. Now, in the second year, I have one survivor out of a dozen attempts, a scion cut from a Quail Hill tree.

So, what did I learn this week? That Audubon “more than once described birds that almost certainly never existed,” and that the L.V.I.S. didn’t have any pants with a 35-inch waist.

You, too, may have found yourself wondering about the staying power of even the best of “prestige television.” A nun to the rescue.

In the East Hampton, Springs, and Amagansett school districts, tax-cap-busting budgets needed a supermajority of at least 60 percent voter approval to pass, and their respective communities responded by turning out in strong numbers to vote on Tuesday.

In the East Hampton, Springs, and Amagansett school districts, tax-cap-busting budgets needed a supermajority of at least 60 percent voter approval to pass, and their respective communities responded by turning out in strong numbers to vote on Tuesday.

The local chapter of Whiskey Bravo, a nationwide youth organization that raises awareness of the kinds of support needed by veterans and active military personnel, took on the somber task this year of placing flags at the gravesites of East Hampton soldiers, and also walked a symbolic lap around the field at the American Legion to show their support.