Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” from 2018, and “Honey Bee,” a 2017 short film by Jack Kendrick, will be shown on Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Sag Harbor Cinema, followed by a panel discussion on adolescent anxiety and social media.

As one gallery at Guild Hall opens an exhibition Saturday of works by the pioneering artist Robert Rauschenberg, who would have turned 100 this year, the other will be filled with student work inspired by Rauschenberg’s innovation. 

New in the scandal that won’t go away: President Trump knew about the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of girls, according to email exchanges between Epstein and Michael Wolff, the Amagansett author and journalist profiled in The Star last week.

In Montauk this fall, the girls field hockey team put on quite a show, finishing the season 9-0-1 to go undefeated for the first time since 2018.

The Springs School held its annual Idiom Contest in the big gym for students in sixth through eighth grades recently.

For kids and teens this week, there's a morning of artmaking inspired by peace at the Children's Museum of the East End, the Young Birders Club at the South Fork Natural History Museum, and a therapy dog at the East Hampton Library.

The plan calls for 46 to 50 “historical style” light fixtures such as those installed in Sag Harbor, spaced approximately 100 feet apart on either side of Main Street from Windmill Lane to Meeting House Lane. The existing “cobra head” lights affixed to metal poles would be removed. 

With the 2025 election in the rearview mirror, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen has officially announced plans to challenge newly re-elected Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez for the Democratic nomination in 2026.

When Rob Balnis had a stroke while driving to his office at East End Physical Therapy in late August and his car hit a tree, he was abruptly placed on a trajectory he had helped countless patients navigate over his 25-year career as a physical therapist — this time as a patient himself. 

The East Hampton Town attorney has concluded that a complaint by neighbors of 370 and 372 Further Lane in Amagansett, where the properties’ new owners have planted a hedge and trees in an easement, is without merit as the plantings do not violate easements created in 1989 and respected until recently. 

The drummer and composer, who lives in Montauk, is a founding member of Bad Company, which joined the 2025 Hall of Fame inductees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker, the White Stripes, Cyndi Lauper, OutKast, and Soundgarden.

In 2022, Mary Mackey applied through the East Hampton Town Home Improvement Program to fix some issues at her house. The town-selected contractor still hasn’t finished the work, what has been done has been deemed “shoddy” by the town’s licensing review board, and the cost to fix what’s been done has ballooned.

Ted Hartley — Navy pilot, actor, investment banker, writer, movie studio head, and, with his late wife, Dina Merrill, philanthropist — died on Oct. 10 in New York City. An oceanfront homeowner in East Hampton, he was 100.

East Hampton’s boys cross-country team had a fine finish in the Section XI championships at Sunken Meadow State Park, with its top runner, Jasper Samuelson, a sophomore, coming in sixth.

Five swimmers qualified to compete at the New York State championship meet in Rochester on Nov. 21 and 22.

The Dock Closing Race, from the Montauk Post Office to the Dock restaurant on Montauk Harbor, has become one of the premier 5Ks on Long Island and symbolizes the end of the season for the popular bar and restaurant. 

The opening of bay scallop season in state waters on Nov. 3 was a particularly sad day for me. 

Cornell Cooperative Extension will conduct a bottom trawl survey from Smith Point Inlet, in Brookhaven Town, to Montauk Point. It is scheduled to begin on Monday and continue through Nov. 23. 

The East Hampton Town Board held two public hearings on its 2026 preliminary budget last week: one to allow it to pierce the state-mandated 2-percent cap on tax levy increases, and the other on the details of the budget itself. 

The East Hampton Town Building Department, which cut its hours in August, closing to the public on Wednesdays to attack a backlog of applications, announced another change. Building inspectors are now available at the counter and by phone from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday through Friday, including Wednesdays.