There will be a fund-raiser on Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. at the Clubhouse for Larry's Fire Safety House, an effort in conjunction with the East Hampton Village Foundation to build and operate a mobile trailer to teach kids and adults about fire safety using safe but realistic simulations.

It’s a truncated week in “The Way It Was,” but still, some things never change: mysterious movie production here, the scourge of Lyme disease, and the Montauk Lighthouse needing work.

"We didn't plan this, but it worked out beautifully," Chris Mandato, East Hampton High School's band teacher and music department coordinator, said of the special distinction Thursday's large-ensemble concert holds: The band, orchestra, and chorus will each perform an original song written by a Long Island musician with a connection to East Hampton.

Leading off? A letter breaking down the structure of the letters section itself. And more from The Star’s stable of readers and commentators.

So many L.L.C.s . . . it’s real estate in the Hamptons.

The Springs and Montauk Schools successfully passed cap-busting budgets Tuesday night, but in Sag Harbor the Marsden Street purchase went down while everything else there won approval. In Wainscott, voters rejected a contested budget proposal.

The Springs and Montauk Schools successfully passed cap-busting budgets Tuesday night, but in Sag Harbor the Marsden Street purchase went down while everything else there won approval. In Wainscott, voters rejected a contested budget proposal.

The life of Bunny Mellon, a visionary of taste and style who knew immense privilege and cataclysmic loss.

"To recognize creative ambition in all forms," the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton is offering up two $5,000 college scholarships to high school seniors who will be pursuing environmental studies, science, horticultural design, or the literary, visual, or performing arts.

Rowdy Hall plans a move to Amagansett in the space most recently occupied by Main Street Tavern after Labor Day. It will remain open at its present location through the summer.

Since taking the helm of the Southampton Arts Center, Christina Strassfield has brought a sense of purpose and a vision to the institution, based on her long tenure as curator and head of the museum at Guild Hall.

The Peter Marino Art Foundation in Southampton will open with exhibitions of work by Georg Baselitz, a German neo-expressionist, and Erwin Wurm, an Austrian sculptor, along with photographs by Eugene Atget and Priscilla Rattazzi.

Dance will be highlighted at Sag Harbor's The Church, with a dance party and an open rehearsal of a new dance-theater performance this week.

A concert of traditional polyphonic music from the Eastern European country of Georgia will be performed by a seven-piece ensemble from that country at LTV.

‘The Portuguese Kid,’ a comedy by John Patrick Shanley of ‘Moonstruck’ fame, is coming to the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

Kate Mueth will direct and Josh Gladstone will produce a staged reading of Strindberg’s 1888 classic ‘Miss Julie’ at the Montauk Library.

Rachmaninoff recital at the Parrish, garden fair and sale in Bridgehampton, open studios in Water Mill, Cuban salsa in Southampton, raising the dead in Sag Harbor, space and sci fi in Southampton.

Early Helen Frankenthaler, Haim Mizrahi solo, plein-air painting classes, four painters at Grenning, Ugo Rondinone at Storm King, Eric Firestone double play, Sara Nightingale pop-up.

Authentic Lebanese falafel in a variety of forms is now available for takeout in Sag Harbor by restaurateurs who make everything from scratch.

Share the Harvest Farm is open, Moby’s is back, East Hampton and Springs Farmers Markets are set to open, and more.