Five films from Hamptons Doc Fest have been shortlisted for documentary Oscars.

Nancy Atlas's Fireside Sessions will return to Bay Street Theater with Gene Casey, Eugene Chrysler, Brian Mitchell, Randi Fishenfeld, and Jonny Rosch.

The second annual East End Dance Festival will bring innovative choreography to The Church in Sag Harbor, Guild Hall, and the Watermill Center.

Group show at the White Room Gallery, artist books by Barry McCallion at the Springs Community Library.

Bellini's opera "I Puritani" at Guild Hall, poetry and music at St. Ann's in Bridgehampton, Sticks and Stones comedy returns, horticultural round-table and lecture.

Sen restaurant will host a tuna breakdown demonstration and a 13-course omakase dinner.

Councilman David Lys, who has served on the East Hampton Town Board since being appointed in 2018 before winning election in his own right, will now serve as deputy town supervisor. He is to be appointed at Tuesday’s town board organizational meeting.

Robert A.M. Stern, a leading American architect whose forceful advocacy of Classicism and function defined his projects in East Hampton and around the world, died on Nov. 27 at 86.

Robert Weisberg, who was instrumental in building the original cable television system in East Hampton, died on Dec. 1 in Manhattan. He was 98.

Barrett Franklin Kalb, a pilot, lawyer, and entrepreneur formerly of Amagansett, died on Dec. 11 in North Carolina. He was 94.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the governors of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have written to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to demand rescission of the Trump administration’s Dec. 22 pause of leases for five wind farms under construction off the Northeast coast.

A new petition started by a group calling itself Springs Residents Against Elite Towers seeks to stop a long-planned cell tower at the Springs Fire Department on Fort Pond Boulevard.

While there is still no official cause in a summertime death of a woman at the Montauk Yacht Club, a search for answers through the media has revealed new details, including from the man who was on the boat with her that night.

He’d seen people on Town Pond and was concerned, a village resident told police on Dec. 16. An officer responded to see several men skating and playing ice hockey. No action was necessary.

Several people were injured in a collision in Springs between an S.U.V. and a Jeep last week, and George Watson of the Dock bar and grill was injured while riding his bicycle in Montauk.

The 96th annual Audubon Montauk Christmas Bird Count was held on Dec. 20, when 45 participants found 127 bird species despite a morning wind chill of 16 degrees.

The East Hampton girls varsity basketball team won its first game of the season at home on Dec. 19 — a 38-34 come-from-behind victory over Mattituck — improving to 1-2 over all and 1-0 in League VII.

The Bonac boys swim team remained undefeated in League II, improving to 3-0 after a 77-31 home win over Lindenhurst on Dec. 15, and Knight and Chavez competed at Farmingdale.

A small crew represented Bonac boys indoor track at a crossover meet at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Dec. 21, but the track and field athletes who did compete turned in impressive performances.

East Hampton High School’s girls indoor track-and-field squad performed well at its rescheduled meet at Suffolk Community College in Brentwood on Dec. 20, the small turnout allowing athletes to try new events.