To borrow a phrase from the game of baseball, the fishing season is now in the bottom of the ninth inning. Striped bass season concludes Dec. 15, blackfish season comes to an end seven days later, and Dec. 31 is the final day to retain black sea bass.

For the first time in two decades, East Hampton High’s wrestling team was a runner-up Saturday in its Frank (Sprig) Gardner invitational tournament, close behind the favorite, Ward Melville.

“A couple of seconds is like a lifetime,” Jane Brierley said the other day about the breaststroke, her strongest event and the one she recently parlayed into a state championship in Rochester.

Sas Peters of Amagansett won his sixth major Ultimate Disc championship — his second as an over-50 great grandmaster — in the Sarasota Sunset tournament, “the most prestigious of the fall season,” last month.

In what Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney described as "meticulously planned heists," a pair of thieves allegedly targeted a wealthy woman with residences in Sag Harbor and Manhattan and made off with cash, art, guns, jewelry, fine wines, and other items valued at more than $1 million.

This time of year, there are lots of opportunities for giving. Toys for Tots, food for food pantries, and now warm clothing for soldiers about to endure a Ukraine winter on the frontlines.

This nonfiction play-turned-book amusingly showcases two artistic giants as if they were at a gossipy lunch.

Pamela Willoughby's soon-to-open Southold art gallery is the latest stage in her career as a restaurant chef turned freelance art curator.

A hand surgeon, a maker's market featuring a unique doll house and other artisanal goods, and a couple of guitar legends will be coming to The Church in Sag Harbor.

Dreamlike pastels and watercolors are paired with decorative objects and jewelry in an enchanting exhibition at the Drawing Room.

Bay Street Theater will host the 2022-23 season of The Met: Live in HD," starting with the world premiere of "The Hours."

Bridgehampton Chamber Music's first holiday concert will feature Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and selections from Bach cantatas.

Josh Gladstone and Kate Mueth will bring their interpretation of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" to the Montauk Library.

Stephen Scanniello, one of the foremost authorities on roses, will speak in Bridgehampton as a guest of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.

PechaKucha at the Parrish, open studios at Watermill Center, holiday cabaret at the Rogers Library, Christmas revelry at the Talkhouse, holiday chamber concert from Music for Montauk

A quiet week for openings, but a new show of paintings by Robert Dash is at Madoo, and the Lucore Art Gallery will have 50 works by 50 artists.

Tutto Caffe opens in East Hampton, 1770 House and Highway restaurant offer take-home holiday feasts, spirited gift suggestions from Park Place Wines and Wolffer Estate Vineyard, peppermint ice cream and a holiday menu from Loaves and Fishes, and a new I.P.A. from Springs Brewery.

Food gifts for the holidays are always welcomed. Most of us have a houseful of family, friends dropping by, parties to attend. What to serve? What to ship to those farther away?

The East Hampton Village Board will raise the price of nonresident beach parking permits from $500 to $750 next year. But if you're here in the winter, mark your calendars: There will be a one-day, in-person sale at the old price for town residents.

The Firefighters Association of the State of New York wants New Yorkers to hear "sleigh bells jingling, not fire alarms ringing" this holiday season, and so it has published a list of safety tips for holiday revelry at home.