What is it about acquiring the deed to a house that makes a lifetime desk-job guy become a Bob the Builder wannabe?

Small but mighty. That’s how East Hampton’s head coach of flag football, Erin Gillott, described her senior class last week. It’s a pretty accurate description not just of the seniors, but the football program over all — still in its infancy at just four years old — becoming a small but mighty movement that expanded this spring to include a junior varsity team.

The last home game for the East Hampton High School girls lacrosse team on May 12 included athletes of all ages. East End Lacrosse brought some of its elementary school girls to see their high school heroes, creating a lacrosse stick tunnel for the Bonac seniors to run through before their matchup against John Glenn.

The entire season came down to a single game. Bonac baseball’s 2-0 loss to Westhampton Beach at home on May 12 cost them a playoff berth. Bonac would return the favor, though, winning the final two games of the series and knocking the Hurricanes out of the postseason with a 9-4 victory at home on May 15. 

On May 16, parents from 25 schools and 38 track and field teams cheered on 707 male and female athletes from across eastern Long Island at the East End Classic here, and the Bonackers put on quite a show for fans, with several standout performances on both the boys and girls teams and some new school records.

In their last dual meet of the season, the Bonackers proved that the boys track program at East Hampton High School is back. They lost the league title 71–60 to West Islip on May 14, but finished the season 5-1. It’s an enormous improvement; the team has gone from last to nearly first, putting together the program’s best season in over 20 years.

Heading into the last game of the season with a 13-6 record, there was no question that East Hampton’s softball team would be heading to the playoffs, but they ended the regular season with a bang: a 4-3 walk-off win against Westhampton Beach. They host Eastport-South Manor Thursday at 4 p.m. in the first game of the first round of the playoffs.

School budgets sailed through this week in Springs, Montauk, Sagaponack, Wainscott, and Sag Harbor, where there were no contested elections and spending plans stayed within the state-imposed cap on tax-levy increases. 

School budgets sailed through this week in Springs, Montauk, Sagaponack, Wainscott, and Sag Harbor, where there were no contested elections and spending plans stayed within the state-imposed cap on tax-levy increases. 

The Jewish Center of the Hamptons, after filing in court to annul a building inspector’s determination that essentially prevented it from enclosing two porches, was back before the village Z.B.A. earlier this month, seeking approval for what it initially asked for.

East Hampton voters came out in support of the 2026-27 school budget and three additional bond proposals that will allow the district to make major upgrades at all three of its school buildings and campuses and add an indoor pool and indoor athletic facility at the high school.

A new book by Christian John Wikane and Alice Harris celebrates the dance music of the 1970s with photographs of more than 100 artists and interviews with such icons as Donna Summer and Barry Gibb.

“The Story of America: 1776-2026” at the Southampton Arts Center features 250 years of American political campaign material from the Museum of Democracy that illuminates this country’s history.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will launch a summerlong series featuring classic film noir from the 1940s and ’50s, and neo-noir works by such auteurs as Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, and the Coen brothers.

The Peter Marino Art Foundation reopens with exhibitions of artworks by Y.Z. Kami, Betty Parsons and Carla Accardi, and Robert Nava, and a display of Tiffany silver.

Peter Matthiessen in the swimming pool.

The Gibney Dance Company and Lucinda Childs will present a newly commissioned work in process by Childs at Guild Hall.

Gayle Feldman will be at The Church in Sag Harbor to talk about her biography of Bennett Cerf, and Francine Fleischer will present her photographs of an underground swimming hole in Mexico.

A monumental foil sculpture by the renowned artist John Chamberlain will be installed on the front lawn of the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House.

The Parrish Art Museum hosts two exhibiting artists and the Shinnecock Kelp Farmers.