An introduction to the Indian tabla drums and "Shrek Jr." on stage courtesy of South Fork Performing Arts are just some of the fun in store for families, kids, and teens this week.

The three rising East Hampton High School seniors have spent the last several weeks perfecting a pickling recipe for their new business, Kooky Kirbs.

With the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center predicting an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, Bruce Bates, East Hampton Town’s emergency preparedness coordinator, briefed the town board on preparations for extreme storms.

Closing the Racial Wealth Gap, a fund-raiser at Loida Lewis's Lily Pond Lane estate on Saturday, will benefit All Star Code and Giving Gap, both aimed at correcting the persistent systemic issues that have historically barred people of color from accessing economic opportunities.

This photograph, from the East Hampton Star photo archives, shows Candace Catlin Woodruff Benjamin, Lela Harkness Edwards Cook, and Janet McCord Cook eating lunch on the deck at the Maidstone Club. The three women were in a similar place in life, and their families were active in the club.

Fabio Velez, who in recent years worked as a real estate agent with Corcoran in East Hampton and also in South Florida, died at Stony Brook University Hospital on July 2 following a short illness. He had liver cancer.

Lawrence Raymond of Montauk and Manhattan, a 30-year employee of the I.B.M. Corporation and a member of Concerned Citizens of Montauk, died on June 29 at home in Manhattan. The cause was complications of throat cancer.

A snarky, often ribald, always revealing memoir from Broadway royalty.

Suffolk County has received 1,800 more monkeypox vaccine doses and will be administering most of them in Hampton Bays over the next two weeks.

The Hampton Youth Triathlon at Long Beach in Noyac on Saturday had 119 finishers. The Montauk Sprint Triathlon, the next day, had 313.

Well into the summer season, the East Hampton 7-on-7 men’s soccer and men’s slow-pitch softball leagues’ defending champions, the East Hampton Soccer Club and McMahon’s, find themselves with a lot of ground to make up.

Lobsters grow by molting. It's basically a process in which they struggle out of their old shells while simultaneously absorbing water which expands their body size. Marine scientists estimate that molting occurs about 25 times in the first five to seven years of a lobster's life. Once shedding their old shells, lobsters put on the feed bag in a big way.

The praiseworthy and the pissed. It’s the week in reader comment.

I once read someplace that the popular song most frequently to be found on the jukeboxes of the Empire State was Sinatra’s “Summer Wind.”

A summertime afternoon with the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League.

To O’en, when he’s on the move, everything is new — the quotidian becomes all-absorbing. I envy him that.

All our decades of planning were working to create the family we’d always wanted. Until, late in my pregnancy with our fourth child, a nurse called.

More than $23 million for two Amagansett parcels alone, and much more this week in Hamptons real estate.

Benjamin Z. Kitburi was already unconscious when he was pulled from the water shortly after 7:30 p.m. by three nearby surfers, according to East Hampton Town police.

The Bridgehampton School has announced new summer hours for community members and school staff at the school's fitness center. 

It will be open from 6 to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday, through Aug. 29.

Users of the facility must be Bridgehampton residents and at least 12 years old; an adult caregiver must accompany youth who are between the ages of 12 and 18.