Petitions for candidates interested in serving on public school boards of education are officially available from district clerks across the state. Paperwork is due to be handed in directly to the clerks by 5 p.m. on April 17; the vote is on May 16.

In a new biography, Bill Janovitz shows that Leon Russell was way more than just a capable keyboardist and bandleader. 

Commemorating those who died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire on March 25, 1911.

In recognition of Women's History Month, the East Hampton Library has mounted a new exhibit in the display cases in the front lobby "focusing on how women shaped and changed the character and reputation of the East Hampton community through social and volunteer organizations and activities."

For former marketing executive Patrick J. Peters III, the silver lining of a traumatic struggle with long Covid was his life-changing discovery of salvation through painting.

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's spring concerts will feature the New York Philharmonic String Quartet, a program of piano for four hands, and a concert highlighting two violas.

There are lots of things going on — growing on — at the FoodLab at Stony Brook Southampton.

A new play at Hampton Theatre Company dramatizes a real-life conflict between accuracy in journalism and literary license.

Nanette Carter will discuss her artwork at The Church, and two painters-in-residence will open their studios there.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will welcome spring with a program of whimsical music.

Classical piano and a dance party at The Church, Hamptons Jazz Fest in Southampton, stand-up comedy at Bay Street, actors’ monologues in Montauk, garden talks at Marders, and musical variety in Riverhead.

Miriam Schapiro in NoHo, paintings and ceramics at Harper’s, nature and migration at Halsey McKay, abstraction vs. figuration at White Room, Dan Welden as inspiration, Linda Stein far and near.

L’Epicuriste in Bridgehampton offers carefully selected speciality food items as well as tableware, kitchen items, flowers, vegetables, local honey, even artwork.

The Parrish celebrates Art of the Brew, Loaves and Fishes has fresh sausage, Mediterranean cooking demo at Rogers Library, chili chowdown in Springs, C.S.A. programs at local farms, and more.

A boisterous group of 40-plus ambulance volunteers, many from the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association but some "mutually aided" from nearby departments, showed up at the East Hampton Village Board meeting on Friday to speak out against a plan that would have the ambulance association come under village control.

In Sag Harbor and Amagansett this weekend, a bake sale and a spaghetti dinner, respectively, will raise money for charitable endeavors.

AMAGANSETT
Itai Lemberger to Jason Goldklang, 66 Pepperidge Lane, Aug. 12, $2,475,000.
177 Amagansett Main Street L.L.C. to ROP Amagansett L.L.C., 177 Main Street (commercial), Jan. 17, $4,450,000.

The latest reported property transfers, from Montauk to Southampton.

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