The Group of 7 has decided to cap the price it will pay for Russian oil. There may be lessons for that challenge in U.S. history, from World War I to the coal wars of 1922.

On the election, pollinator gardens, and plastics.

It’s the return of the South Fork real estate transaction report . . .

Halloween of 1922 brought out the entire village Police Department, but each officer exercised “more than his usual forbearance on that particular night.”

Chris Miller at Westlake Marina in Montauk confirmed that the fishing has been good on several fronts. “The bass fishing is holding up,” he said. “Sea bass too have been cooperating, but many are focused on blackfish, which has been very good since the season opened two weeks ago.”

The scope of what will happen if the Republican Party takes control of the House is mind-boggling.

The Bonackers, in “their best game of the season,” according to Joe McKee, their coach, won 41-20 at Eastport-South Manor Friday night, capping their return to Division III football with a 2-6 record. Plus more in local sports action.

McMahon’s won its third straight East Hampton Town men’s slow-pitch softball league championship at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett on Oct. 25, besting Sand & Sea Construction 17-10, thus winning the best-of-five final series three games to one.

Saturday is National Drug Take Back Day, an initiative to help people safely dispose of unneeded medications, with collection sites planned in East Hampton and Southampton Towns.

John Irving’s new doorstop of a novel vividly sums up a lifetime’s worth of themes, from family to sex to identity.

A reading celebrates Anne Porter’s poetry, and a talk hails Mary Rodgers’s bitingly funny memoir.

The best team did not win in a Class A semifinal soccer playoff game contested here with Half Hollow Hills West Monday. East Hampton's 1-0 loss left Don McGovern, his players, and a crowd that had filled the bleachers stunned.

The Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter has asked its members who happen to be veterans to share photos of themselves while on active duty with the Y. The photos will be displayed in the lobby in recognition of Veterans Day, which falls on Friday, Nov. 11, this year.

When the sculptor Rudolph Serra could not get clay during the pandemic, he turned to surfboard foam and aqua resin to create elegant, gestural, three-dimensional sculptural forms.

The Hampton Theatre Company's current production of "Over the River" is "unremittingly funny and genuinely moving," with perfect casting and sharp dialogue.

The Parrish Art Museum will present the first major retrospective of work by Mel Kendrick, whose sculpture highlights the inherent possibilities of materials, and the myriad ways of configuring them.

The Church in Sag Harbor hosts a master guitar maker, the American Artists' Hand Archive, a 1940s-style dance class, and the artist Steve Miller.

Pastels and decorative objects at the Drawing Room, handmade illustrated books at Colm Rowan Fine Art, Dan Welden workshop at Southampton Arts Center, Parrish talk on Shinnecock history, benefit for Brooks-Park, and an eclectic group show at Mark Borghi

Groundbreaking film at Sag Cinema, open studios at Watermill Center, classical music in Southampton and on Shelter Island, prize-winning play at Montauk Library

Fall brings special offerings, including D.I.Y. pizza kits from Nick and Toni's, Thanksgiving fixings from Loaves and Fishes, menu specials from La Fondita and Lulu Kitchen and Bar, new dinner-to-go from Tapovana — and a new beer from Kidd Squid.