Considering George Balanchine, the autocratic, contradictory Russian émigré who gave new life to American ballet.

Robert Chaloner, who was instrumental in establishing Stony Brook Medicine as a trusted partner and provider of high-quality health care on the East End following the Stony Brook and Southampton merger in 2017, has announced he is stepping down as chief administrative officer.

Bay Street Theater has put out a call to teen writers to enter its Writing the Wave: The 2023 New Works Creative Writing Competition. Kids 13 and up from across Suffolk County can enter original works in the genres of poetry, spoken word, rap, monologue, song, or short scene.

The Jam Session brings top-tier musicians and enthusiastic crowds to Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple every Tuesday night.

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company finds both tension and laughs in a true story about the clash between poetic license and “nothing but the facts.”

Concert at LTV, networking at East Hampton Library, open studios at Watermill Center, architecture film at SAC, brass band at the Presbyterian Church, music by female composers at Rogers Library, and tribute bands in Sag Harbor and Riverhead.

A concert of world music by Albino Mbie and a discussion about the importance of public space by Setha Low are coming to The Church.

Jose Campos’s woodcut figures, Charles Waller’s “Bridal Suite,” Joel Mesler’s “Rabbis,” Leo Villareal’s “Nebulae,” group shows at Harper’s, Oscar Molina, LTV, Southampton Cultural Center, and an artists’ panel in Southampton

Honest Man Hospitality Group’s Chimene Visser Macnaughton seeks out new wine regions and small producers who make "clean" wines and spirits. This dedication is reinforced in her wine dinners, which emphasize discovery and deliciousness.

St. Patrick's Day specials at Rowdy Hall, custom beverage classes at North Fork Table and Inn, demystifying wine labels at Park Place Wines and Liquors, and more.

Southampton Town and Habitat for Humanity of Long Island are once again partnering to collect reusable household items to raise money for affordable housing efforts. The program, which has been running for the past two years at the North Sea Transfer Station, is now expanding to Hampton Bays.

Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School got off to a slow start, but tied the game with under three minutes left before losing to Haldane of Putnam County 57-53 Friday night.

With the East End frost-free date about a month away, for gardeners now is seed-starting time. Resources for experienced, casual, and beginner growers include free "seed libraries" at most local libraries.

In an email sent late Monday night to the Sag Harbor School District, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman pitched the idea of using C.P.F. money to buy development rights at Mashashimuet Park, which would then — in theory — be spent on renovations at the park.

Legislation introduced at last week’s East Hampton Village Board to create a standalone Ambulance Department “to provide a municipal paid and volunteer general ambulance service in the village and contracted-for areas of the Town of East Hampton” so alarmed a faction of the ambulance corps that it scheduled an emergency meeting. The law will be the subject of a public hearing on March 17.

Three weeks after the East Hampton Town Board heard from residents urging it to opt out of the May turkey hunting season announced last year by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, some 30 people were in the main meeting room at Town Hall Tuesday, many of them applauding speakers who urged the board to opt in.

Owners of one of the two dozen 1700-1850 timber-frame landmarks in East Hampton Village have been called to task after making renovations affecting protected aspects of the structure. “It’s egregious, and they knew what they were doing, that’s the most upsetting aspect of this," the mayor said.

The school district is cutting to the chase in its search for a new principal, with applications due by the end of the day on Tuesday — just two weeks after the Springs School Board accepted the resignations of both Christine Cleary, the current principal, and Josh Odom, the assistant principal, effective June 30.

It’s part community service, part environmental initiative: A new children’s clothing swap effort at the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center will be available to the public starting tomorrow. Anyone in need of clothes for their kids, sizes 2T to 7, can stop by the center on Friday afternoons or by appointment to choose from the overflowing racks and tables of shirts, sweaters, pants, jackets, hats, and mittens in good condition.

The long-planned improvement to the navigational channel in Montauk Harbor remains on track for completion this fall, representatives of the federal Army Corps of Engineers told the East Hampton Town Board, but a delay to fall 2024 is possible.