For anyone looking for a recipe for an upcoming get-together or meal, the 75-year-old “East Hampton Ladies’ Village Improvement Society Cook Book” is filled with inspiring traditional favorites.   

A man with sex crime charges pending in North Carolina was taken into custody at the commercial fishing dock off West Lake Drive in Montauk on Nov. 17.

As a landscape artist and the owner of a landscaping business called Cottage Gardens for 25 years, Kenneth Keyser of East Hampton had an "incredible green thumb," his family wrote. "His love of the natural world prompted frequent trips to New England where he especially savored the waterfalls, fall foliage, and early snowfall."

Richard Dreyfus Kahn of Montauk, a corporate attorney, environmental advocate, and gardener, died on Nov. 17 in Calvary Hospice at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. He was 92.

William F. Eggert, an attorney, veteran, and onetime candidate for the House of Representatives who spent summers in Springs in his youth, died at home in Hampton Bays on Oct. 16 after a brief illness. He was 73.

John Cronopulos of Springs, who had a long and fruitful career as a TV advertising executive, died on Nov. 7 at Newport Hospital in Rhode Island. He was 83.

The East Hampton Town Board heard recommendations for allocating an expected $120,000 for community development for projects ranging from solar panels to an outdoor table for chess.

Two years after enacting a moratorium on construction of new residential docks and other structures on waters under their jurisdiction, a committee of the East Hampton Town Trustees shared its recommendations for a new policy with the full board. 

The Montauk School Board is looking for a resident of the school district to fill out the time remaining in Tom Flight's board term. Mr. Flight was elected this month to the East Hampton Town Board and will be sworn in by the town clerk in January. His school board term expires June 30, 2024.

Richard Brockman has written a deeply personal account of how he slowly, painfully freed himself from the trauma of his mother’s suicide in order to reclaim and recreate the narrative of his life.

The M.F.A. program in creative writing and literature at Stony Brook Southampton is offering an open house at the campus’s Lichtenstein Center, with readings by faculty and students. It starts at 6 p.m. on Dec. 6 in Chancellors Hall.

This winter, Southampton Town is offering a still-water lifeguard certification course that can qualify a participant to serve at a bay beach and provide the basics needed to move on to an ocean lifeguarding program.

“What the Band Wore,” a photography book by Alice Harris, a former music industry executive, captures four decades of rock and pop fashion, ranging from the Beatles and Elvis to Elton John, David Bowie, Tina Turner, Prince, Janet Jackson, and many others.

Hamptons Doc Fest will bring such noted directors as James Ivory, James Lapine, and Matthew Heineman to Sag Harbor, as well as films about Dan Rather, Rose Styron, Anselm Kiefer (directed by Wim Wenders), and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Tony Rosenthal's “Cube 72,” a tilting sculptural fixture in front of Guild Hall for decades, is back in place after a restoration to its original spinning glory.

The Church will host a live reading of “Dolphins and Sharks,” a new play about stressful working conditions and employee rivalry at a Harlem copy shop.

Monica Banks at Leiber Collection, photography curators at The Church, holiday group show at Grenning, Israeli art in Greenport, Andreesen and Elkins at MM Fine Art, and a focus on color at Kathryn Markel.

Holiday concert from the Choral Society of the Hamptons, LongHouse comes alive at night, theater history talk in Montauk, mismatched men in play at LTV, “Prince of Egypt” musical has East End connection, and two nights of comedy in Southampton.

A forthcoming book by Richard Olsen-Harbich, the winemaker at Bedell Cellars, takes a deep dive into the history, terroir, varietals, and styles of North Fork wines.

Hampton Eats has pizza, Liz Collins will speak at Almond, a feast of seven fishes with wine at Nick and Toni’s, Amber Waves holiday fun, and more.