LongHouse Reserve is heading into the high season with art, performances, special events, conversations, and a unique four-season garden named one of the most peaceful places in New York State.

Guild Hall Museum will open for the season with "Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture" and "Wading Room," an environment created by Almond Zigmund.

"Gingy's Diaries," a new theater work created by Ilene Beckerman with Michael Disher, will premiere in workshop form at the Southampton Arts Center.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek opens with a collaborative show of work by Louise Eastman and Janis Stemmermann, and "Commuter Drawings" by Ralph Stout.

The Shelter Island Friends of Music will present a free recital by Michael Stephen Brown, an award-winning pianist and composer who has performed at Carnegie Hall and the Louvre.

New book and exhibition celebrate 50 Hamptons artists, living sculptures by Mamoun Nukumanu at Tripoli, photographs by Anthony Lombardo in Southampton.

Movement and sound-based performance at The Church, jazz and pop at the Temple, comedy at Bay Street and the Southampton Cultural Center, Manhattan fund-raiser for LTV.

Share the Harvest Farm's Spring Market at St. Luke's, Cinco de Mayo specials at La Fondita, foraging for oysters in Montauk.

Faustin Nsabumukunzi’s alleged past caught up with him last Thursday, when the Bridgehampton beekeeper was arrested and charged with immigration fraud for concealing his role in the Rwandan genocide more than 30 years ago. 

The community has been invited to share its priorities for East Hampton Village at a virtual workshop on May 1 at 6:30 p.m. as part of the village’s work toward updating its comprehensive plan. 

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons will commemorate Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, with a guest speaker and service on Sunday at 11:30 a.m. 

Joe Silvestro is proof that high school robotics clubs can prepare students for future careers. He graduated from Southold High School in 2020, “a crazy time,” he said, to be stepping out into the real world. Two semesters at SUNY Polytechnic Institute in upstate Oneida soon helped him realize that college wasn’t for him, and he went to work for the Mills Canvas company in Greenport. Now, five years later, Mr. Silvestro is a founding partner in a company called Talos 3D Fabrication in Southampton.

Republicans may be in control now in Washington, D.C., but it’s a different story in East Hampton Town, where the chairman of the Republican Committee confirmed this week that his party will not be running a candidate for supervisor and that only one of its candidates for town board will be actively campaigning.

It was a phragmites-removal project that turned bad and devolved into a six-year war between East Hampton Village and the billionaire real estate developer Harry Macklowe. Now, with a new application that will be presented to the village’s zoning board of appeals on May 9, Mr. Macklowe is attempting to put it all to bed.

Most people go to the Elizabeth Morton Wildlife Refuge in Noyac, part of the National Wildlife Refuge system, to feed the friendly birds. On Saturday, however, 15 people showed up instead to rip invasive plants out of the ground.

The future of offshore wind power in New York State and throughout the United States was thrown into question last week as the Trump administration’s interior secretary ordered a halt to construction of the 810-megawatt Empire Wind 1 project, which was to span 80,000 acres in the New York Bight and send renewable electricity to New York City.

A hearing Tuesday on the draft environmental impact statement for the 81,257-square-foot building Adam Potter is planning in Sag Harbor drew a number of critics, but also several supporters who spoke of the urgency of affordable housing.

Rona Klopman, chairwoman of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee, began its meeting Monday night by addressing a recent East Hampton Town Board proposal to bypass planning and zoning regulations when weighing a project’s benefits to the community against its impacts on the environment.

East Hampton Town announced the hiring of two new department heads last week, including a new director of code enforcement, Marty Culloton, and a new town attorney, hired from within, Jake Turner.

Police responded Saturday night to a report that a wind turbine had fallen off a platform at the firehouse, and found its head and blades on the ground, with debris scattered about.