The New York International Children’s Film Festival will host a matinee short-film program titled “Celebrating Black Stories” for kids 9 and up this weekend at the Sag Harbor Cinema.

Several unidentified “white things” were reported floating in the harbor off West Water Street in Sag Harbor on Feb. 13. Police told the caller that while they couldn’t determine what the things were, they didn’t present a hazard.

A Sag Harbor man was charged on Feb. 13 with second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor, for allegedly disobeying an order of protection issued in East Hampton Town Justice Court in December.

This logbook tracks the voyage of the Daniel Webster, which set out from Sag Harbor for the Pacific in 1833 seeking whales. Capt. Philetus Pierson was at the helm.

Susan Mintzer of Montauk and New York City, a psychoanalyst in private practice, died on Jan. 18 in the city. She was 80.

Barbara Brown Albright, visited by generations of students on Flag Day, died in Sagaponack on Sunday, in the house that had been in her late husband’s family since 1720.

Bridgehampton, which is aiming to play in its first state Final Four tournament at Glens Falls since 2015, duked it out with the Smithtown Christian Knights on Feb. 15, nailing a 3-pointer at the buzzer to send the game to overtime.

It looked as if the Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School Whalers were going to blow out Port Jefferson in the early going of the county Class C boys basketball championship game played at St. Joseph’s College in Patchogue on Feb. 15, but the Royals came back in the third quarter to make a game of it.

Three fast-paced futsal (indoor soccer) finals were played before a large crowd at the Sportime Arena in Amagansett Saturday night, capping a season of play in which 28 teams vied in the open men’s league, 10 in the over-37s, and eight in the women’s group.

The continuing drama of the expansive, legendary Star letters pages makes for great reading. Always.

One of our favorite things that libraries are doing these days as they expand their roles in their communities is providing flower, vegetable, and herb seeds, as well as the know-how to sow them.

The people running for town board seem steady and competent, but there is a lackluster quality to them at a time of unprecedented change for the town as a whole.

A year has passed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Sadly, an end to the tragedy is not in sight.

This year for Black History Month I have been occupied by preparing for an exhibit at the Sag Harbor Cinema, intended to reach a broad audience.

When, exactly, did Patch­ogue get cool?

“Tennis players live nine years longer,” I said to the guys I was playing doubles with the other day.

The passing of Burt Bacharach on Feb. 8 frees me to reveal that he was my first love.

From a century ago, documenting the plight of the Montauk Indians. And more from the pages of The Star of yore.

The march of the millions continues.

Jeffrey Sussman’s “Sin City Gangsters” takes us on an impressive journey from the tawdry beginnings of Las Vegas through to its current almost Disney World iteration.