Here's what Star readers have to say this week.

It's the 25th anniversary of the Bridgehampton Lions Club's Carving Contest, a creative extravaganza taking place on Monday starting at 5 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Community House.

This medical mystery broadens its concerns into an exploration of the intransigence and arrogance of the giant bureaucracy that is the U.S. Army.

Mark Ripolone, formerly of Montauk, took a plea deal Tuesday in New York State Supreme Court, admitting to stealing close to $400,000 from clients over three years.

This weekend will bring part three of the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society's six-week celebration of the Paumanok Path's 25th anniversary, and three hikes are scheduled for Saturday, each ending by Napeague Harbor in Amagansett. Those who register by 5 p.m. on Wednesday can reserve spots on a Hampton Hopper shuttle bus that will take them from Neapeague Meadow Road to the starting points.

Monica Ramirez-Montagut took over the Parrish Art Museum at a time of flux, but she has reinvigorated it by bringing East End artists firmly into its orbit, highlighting its collection, showing Latinx artists with purpose and conviction, and expanding the exhibition program to include architecture and design.

Sheridan Lord and Racelle Strick, who moved to the South Fork in the 1960s and are now showing at the Drawing Room, were inspired by their surroundings but took very different approaches, Lord with restrained realism, Strick with exuberant abstractions.

While it has a clever plot device, “Rose and Walsh,” Neil Simon’s last play, now at the Hampton Theatre Company, has its flaws, according to The Star’s drama critic, but Rosemary Cline’s superb performance as Rose turns it into an enjoyable evening.

Opening at Guild Hall are its 84th Artist Members Exhibition and a solo show of work by Mary Boochever, who took top honors in the exhibition’s 2019 iteration.

For “Artists Choose Artists III,” Richard Aldrich, Joanne Greenbaum, Virginia Jaramillo, Rashid Johnson, KAWS, Mel Kendrick, David Salle, Sean Scully, and Amy Sillman have selected works from the museum’s collection to pair with their own.

Stand-up and Dr. K’s Motown Revue at Bay Street, wilding and seed bombs at the Leiber Collection, open call from Hampton Theatre Company, Monster Smash benefit at The Church, silent disco in Southampton, the Dead rise for Halloween in Sag Harbor.

Robert Dash paintings at Madoo, Philippe Cheng’s insights at The Church, solo shows for Elise Asher and Linda K. Alpern, portrait sittings with a celebrity photographer at MM Fine Art, collectors’ talk in Southampton, group show in Springs.

As part of its Operation Medicine Cabinet, the Southampton Town Police Department is encouraging people to take unwanted, unused, and/or expired medications to its drug take-back day on Saturday.

Southold's Sparkling Pointe Winery held an oyster extravaganza on Saturday, pairing six varieties of local oysters, both raw and cooked into recipes, with its own wines.

Restaurant Week brings three-course prix fixe menus to the South Fork, Halloween and Day of the Dead specials, a Tuscan wine dinner at Nick and Toni’s, and more.

The Bridgehampton Fire Department will hold an open house and barbecue on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at its School Street headquarters. The public can tour the firehouse, meet the crews who help put out fires and save lives, and see all the trucks they use.

It had been at least 30 years, likely more, since the Wainscott Sewing Society did any actual sewing. That changed earlier this year, when eight members of the group, all with multigenerational ties to the hamlet, took up scissors, needles, and thread once more.

East Hampton Town’s new senior citizens center “really is shaping up to be something we can all be proud of,” Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said at the conclusion of a presentation by its project team on Tuesday.

With its last effort at creating affordable housing legislation struck down by the New York State Supreme Court in April, the Sag Harbor Village Board introduced a new affordable housing initiative at last week’s board meeting, “just to start the conversation,” said Mayor Tom Gardella.

In the race for Suffolk County executive, voters will choose between an experienced politician, Ed Romaine, a Republican and the current Brookhaven Town supervisor, and a newcomer to politics, Dave Calone, an entrepreneur and former prosecutor who is a Democrat. Steve Bellone, a Democrat who has served as county executive since 2012, is term-limited and could not run for re-election.