Rectangular mountains of paper getting you down? Drawers full? File cabinets flowing over? This Thursday, the Bridgehampton Fire Department, at 64 School Street, and the Hampton Library are co-sponsoring a Shred Day to help you move past the piles from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.

Residents of Springs were jarred on Monday evening as a Suffolk County police helicopter and Southampton Village K-9 unit aided in a search for a man who had fled his house on Neck Path on a bicycle after brandishing what appeared to be a gun.

A look back at a public firestorm and its lingering aftereffects in the wake of a radioactive spill at Brookhaven National Laboratory.

“Spend your Sunday immersed in the words of American poet Grace Schulman,” says The Church in Sag Harbor, where she’ll be appearing at 2 p.m. But first, here’s one of her poems.

A surge of interest in the painter Joan Mitchell is reflected in two important exhibitions abroad, “Monet-Mitchell” in Paris, and “Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970” in London.

"The Dreamer," a new Off Broadway production from the Neo-Political Cowgirls, reimagines Shakespeare’s comedy "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" through the eyes of a young girl.

In a promotion that will run through July 10, PSEG Long Island and Google have partnered to offer customers a Google Nest thermostat at a 93-percent discount.

The Parrish Art Museum has invited 41 artists with deep ties to the East End to pair their work with objects from the museum’s permanent collection in a series of three exhibitions.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will celebrate the Venice Film Festival’s grant program for emerging filmmakers with a screening of "The Cathedral," a local director’s feature.

The 'Gather" series devoted to Indigenous and Black voices will feature Joshua Whitehead, an Indigenous writer from Canada, who will talk about his new nonfiction book.

Bay Street Theater will host Pachanga, OLA of Eastern Long Island's dance party; the Moondogs' concert tribute to John Lennon, and a talk and workshop devoted to adapting literature for the stage.

A celebration of quilts will open the Arts Center at Duck Creek, Ashawagh Hall plans a groovy weekend, abstraction is the subject of a panel discussion at The Church.

Tennessee Walt to channel Hank Williams, Judy Carmichael at the American Hotel, weaving recyclables at LongHouse, open studios at Watermill Center, blues and jazz in Sag, and rock in Riverhead.

Nick and Toni’s to celebrate Italy’s Piedmont region, L.I. Restaurant Week returns, BuddhaBerry is on wheels, Artists’ Table brunch in Water Mill, the artist Jeremy Dennis at Almond, new brew from Springs.

Save Sag Harbor and a group of village residents scored a victory against the village this week when Justice Stephen Hackeling of Suffolk Supreme Court ruled in their favor, striking down two village laws that allowed for Adam Potter’s proposed 79-unit affordable housing and retail complex. Justice Hackeling agreed with the petitioners that the village had failed to comply with the New York State Environmental Quality Review Act when it crafted the laws.

There was nothing new about the presence of rat traps along the East Hampton Village Nature Trail, but they still caused alarm.

Nearly a month after an explosive public hearing on the creation of a new East Hampton Village Department of Emergency Medical Services to take control of the ambulance association, the corps is experiencing a shortage of volunteers to cover overnight shifts and its chief is asking the village to hire a paid emergency medical technician to fill the gaps.

A groundbreaking ceremony for a long-awaited aquatic center at the Montauk Playhouse is planned for July, Sarah Iudicone, the president of the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation’s board, told a delighted East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday.

The Suffolk County Legislature voted 14-to-3 last week to raise its hotel/motel tax from its current 3-percent rate to 5 1/2 percent. The increase starts on June 1, just in time for the season. Legislator Bridget Fleming was one of the three who voted against the hike, along with Al Krupski of Cutchogue and Anthony Piccirillo of Holtsville.

The East Hampton Town Board last Thursday voted to promote Eric Schantz, the assistant planning director, to director of housing and community development, making him the fifth new town department head appointed since late December, following the retirement of several longtime key officials.