Lookee here, sports fans, for the local high school action ahead.

This week we hear from Lou Reale, a local legend among softball coaches. And more from yesteryear’s sports pages.

Over the course of more than four decades, the photographer James Hamilton has plied his trade on the streets of New York, at music festivals, on film sets, at celebrity gatherings, even in war zones.

East Hampton's Lizz Cohen of Lizzy's Little Bake Shoppe makes cakes and cupcakes for any occasion that are as wildly creative as they are delicious.

This year's Pachanga, a benefit for OLA of Eastern Long Island, will feature a dynamic salsa band, a multidisciplinary percussionist, and an actress and singer whose credits include Disney's "Mulan."

"The Art of Food" at the Parrish Art Museum features more than 100 works by 37 notable modern and contemporary artists linked by their choice of food as a subject.

Brad Gooch continues his explorations of the culture of the 1980s in “Radiant,” his biography of the art star and activist Keith Haring.

Film Noir classics to launch retrospective tribute to Columbia Pictures at the Sag Harbor Cinema.

Bay Street Theater will pivot this weekend from Puccini's opera "La Rondine," live in HD from the Met, to "The Absolute Adele Tribute."

The Clam Bar and Salivar's Clam and Chowder House are open, French bistro coming to East Hampton, Passover menu from the Cookery, old school Italian restaurant headed for Bridgehampton.

Airing of Quilts at Duck Creek, Art Groove at Ashawagh, film and panel on book banning at the Southampton Arts Center, talks at the Parrish and Guild Hall.

Docs on music and art at the East Hampton Library, benefit concert at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. vintage films on fishermen, open studios at the Watermill Center.

Nancy Atlas and Mighty Ramon and the Phantoms of Soul at the Talkhouse, jazz at the Masonic Temple, tributes to Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck in Riverhead.

Fewer than 100 non-resident, full-season beach parking permits remain available for purchase, according to an announcement from East Hampton Village Hall sent out Monday afternoon.

Parties on Friday night at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett and Saturday night at the Clubhouse in Wainscott will each benefit programs for children. 

Ever wonder about the long ribbon of pink and white hibiscus blooming at the entrance to the village in late summer, or the flower-filled meadow between Accabonac Road and Methodist Lane? These are working rain gardens that slow, capture, and filter rainwater and road runoff as the water makes its way through the Hook Pond watershed and eventually into the ocean. They are successful examples of a natural solution to a water pollution problem.

Here's a guide to growing and enjoying your best tomato-flavored life, thanks to Matthew Quick, the farm manager for the nonprofit Share the Harvest Farm, and Marilee Foster, who typically grows 100 varieties each year on her Sagaponack farm.

In the summer months, under the immaculately tended giant rhododendron stand in Henry and Martha Murray's backyard on Further Lane in Amagansett, their young grandchildren can be glimpsed darting in and out of the canopy of fuchsia blossoms, visible one second, gone the next.

For gardeners and landscapers seeking four-season interest, low maintenance, and environmental impact, trees check off all the boxes. Plus, they offer shade for sitting areas, a backdrop for a garden, and nesting places for birds, among ecological benefits. Just as there’s no irrigation watering trees in a forest, it is not needed for the established trees in your yard. The time and money saved on irrigation and maintenance might feel liberating.

It takes understated talent and a keen eye for a designer to balance her personal aesthetic with those of a client. "I consider it high praise when a client's family or friends walk into the space and say it's a reflection of the client and doesn't feel designed," said Delia Kenza, an interior designer based in Sag Harbor and Brooklyn.