The week in reader comment.

The painter Gaines Ruger Donoho’s house gets an addition in 1897, a 1922 report looks at potato planting on the South Fork, and “the Hamptons as playground” is dissected in a 1947 Holiday magazine article.

Here's a snapshot of real estate dealings from Montauk to Southampton Village.

Voters across the South Fork approved their districts' 2022-23 budgets in Tuesday's vote. In the only districts with contested school board races, Springs and Sag Harbor, Emma Field and Erik Fredrickson were elected to the Springs board and Grainne Coen and Ronald Reed won seats in Sag Harbor.

The 11th annual Montauk Music Festival will bring more than 80 performers from near and far to the hamlet for four days of music starting Thursday at 6:30 p.m., with an opening party at the Westlake Fish House featuring music by 10 festival bands, cocktails, appetizers, and dancing.

Young adults have lots of fun opportunities coming up this week at the East Hampton Library.

Dense, foggy conditions over the weekend caused some anxiety for boaters and fishermen alike. The fishing was good in many locales, however, as the waters continue to warm up.

Four singles and four doubles players on East Hampton High School’s boys tennis team, which recently finished the regular season at 15-1 in league play, achieved all-county status last weekend in the Division IV tournament at William Floyd High School.

Three East Hampton High School senior student-athletes received $1,000 scholarships and two adults were honored by the Old Montauk Athletic Club at the Clubhouse in Wainscott last Thursday.

A New York State Supreme Court Justice issued a temporary restraining order on Monday blocking East Hampton Town from temporarily closing its airport on Tuesday at 11:59 p.m. as it had planned.

Paula Poundstone has performed at the Bay Street Theater so often that she needs no introduction. She will bring her lightning wit to Sag Harbor on May 28.

Postseason competition looms for East Hampton's girls track team, which finishes its regular season at Westhampton Beach Monday. East Hampton headed into the meet at 3-2, Westhampton at 4-1, a record that included a win over Hauppauge, which defeated East Hampton 83-66 here on Wednesday.

Pierson High School's baseball team, playing before a large and appreciative hometown crowd at Sag Harbor's Mashashimuet Park Friday, swatted Bridgehampton's Killer Bees 13-2 to finish the regular season at 13-5. The Bees gave the Whalers a better go in the first two games of the series, losing by scores of 4-2 and 5-3, but finished Friday at 6-12. 

"A Doll's House, Park 2," a 2017 sequel to Ibsen's classic, is coming to the Hampton Theatre Company in Quogue.

Four days of music in Montauk with more than 80 bands rocking around the clock, plus jazz in Southampton and Out East at the Talkhouse

Four days of music in Montauk with more than 80 bands rocking around the clock, plus jazz in Southampton and Out East at the Talkhouse

A performer, a writer, a composer, and a dancer will present their work in progress at the Watermill Center.

Christopher Durang play at LTV, Amanda Fairbanks talks about "The Lost Boys of Montauk," auditions for Boots on the Ground theater, Band ach and Handel in Sag Harbor

Site-specific sculpture at Lazy Point, artist talks at The Church in Sag Harbor, Southampton African American Museum opens with "BIPOC Experience," solo shows by Mary Ellen Bartley, Maureen Dougherty, Reuben Kadish, and Arthur Pinajian.

New York State earmarks $140 million in aid to arts organizations and artists from New York State Council on the Arts.