The poignancy of little kids taking pride in their 1898 classroom’s new flag and clock. A bronze plaque placed on a boulder in Montauk by the American Women’s Voluntary Services on Armistice Day in 1948. This was The Star of yore.

A welcome invitation to check out the trees of LongHouse opens this week’s tranche of letters.

Tuesday night's unofficial results for Suffolk County races show Brookhaven Town Supervisor Ed Romaine, a Republican from Center Moriches, prevailing in his bid for the county executive's seat, while Ann Welker, a Democrat and a sitting Southampton Town trustee, appears to have won the county legislator race in the second district.

In a big night for East Hampton Town Democrats, Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez was elected supervisor Tuesday and will become the fourth woman to hold that post in the town’s history. With all 19 election districts reporting, the Suffolk County Board of Elections’ unofficial tally had Ms. Burke-Gonzalez and her running mates, Councilman David Lys and Tom Flight, cruising to victory over their Republican opponents.

Faced with the enormous task of helping people understand how to move forward after the Black Saturday attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7, South Fork clergy offered a diversity of perspective at Sunday's Rally Israel and Peace at Herrick Park in East Hampton.

Poets, writers, songwriters, storytellers, and comedians are invited to an open mic on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

"No slammin', just jammin'," is the word. The event is for adults, teens, and children 9 and up.

All seven of the incumbent East Hampton Town trustees were re-elected on Tuesday, and two new Democratic candidates, Patrice Dalton and Celia Josephson, will join them on the board, according to unofficial results posted by the Suffolk County Board of Elections. 

With “The Helsinki Affair” Anna Pitoniak ventures into what John le Carré called the secret world, where spies can have lives even more hidden than those that come with their tradecraft — a potentially disastrous duality. 

LTV, East Hampton's public-access television station, has announced a special slate of programming Tuesday night to highlight "the historical importance of our elections."

Isao Yoshimura learned how to cook and prepare sushi with one of the first sushi masters to come to America and is now a private chef on the East End.

The Reflections in Music series will bring "Sound & Spirit(s)," a concert conceived to bring solace during these trying times, to The Church in Sag Harbor.

Roy Lichtenstein’s centenary was marked the launch of the artists’s catalogue raisonne, a postage stamp, the declaration of Roy Lichtenstein Day in New York City, and the completion of the renovation of his former Manhattan studio into the home of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program.

Sag Harbor Cinema’s Festival of Preservation will feature everything from an animated short that began as a collaboration between Salvador Dali and Walt Disney, to classics like Hitchcock’s “Spellbound,” Mervyn LeRoy’s “:Little Caesar,” a Vincent Price horror film, a Senegalese masterpiece, and more.

East Hampton had a presence at the Art Dealers Association of America's “Art Show” in Manhattan with a series of paintings by East Hampton’s Joel Mesler, and a selection of work by Black artists from East Hampton shown by Eric Firestone Gallery.

Rashid Johnson’s sculptural installation, a massive shelving unit holding books, ceramics, lights, plants, and much more, will connect the Whitney Museum’s new Frenchette Bakery with the museum’s lobby and the community outside.

Joy Jan Jones and her quintet will perform a program of jazz standards at St. Luke's Church in East Hampton.

Photography workshop with Jeremy Dennis, Audrey Flack in person and on film, open studio at The Church, Charlotte Park in Chelsea, Sabina Streeter in Greenport, group shows at Willoughby and Keyes, art as a gift in Southampton, gallery talk at Guild Hall.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold the first of two trap-neuter-return clinics for feral cats on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center on Daniel's Hole Road in Wainscott, "promoting the well-being of feral cats and reducing their overpopulation."

HamptonsFilm accepting Screenwriters Lab applications, Guild Hall workshop on Indigenous culture, Black Film Fest focus on Haiti, Shinnecock History talk in Springs, music three ways in Sag, benefit at Southampton Cultural Center, Native plants lecture.

Thanksgiving feasts to go or stay from 1770 House and Lulu's Kitchen, take-home only from Nick and Toni’s, turkey and more from Harbor Market, Amber Waves is taking orders, and Curated Fine Meats is discounting birds.