Our original 13-day vacation had already been cut short, then I tested positive for Covid. Hello to quarantine at home, which was still 420 miles away. For those not in quarantine, the fishing scene bounced back quite nicely after nearly a week of northeasterly wind and rain.

After Friday’s 2-1 loss here to Eastport-South Manor, Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, which had just seen a nine-game winning streak snapped, asked if his players could tell him why they’d lost.

On paper, East Hampton’s field hockey game here on Oct. 4 against Comsewogue seemed likely to wind up in favor of the Bonackers, but they had a fight on their hands.

East Hampton High School’s football team lost 20-13 to Amityville here on Saturday, dropping its record to 1-4, but the Bonackers made some big plays, and led 13-12 early in the fourth quarter.

The documentary "Groucho & Cavett" looks back at the erudite talk shows of the late '60s and '70s through the lens of Dick Cavett's long-running program and his association and friendship with Groucho Marx.

The Southampton Cultural Center's new production, Boots on the Ground Theater's "Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll & Hyde Play," reimagines the classic horror tale with madcap comedy and a little drag.

Ghost hunt in Southampton, opera in East Hampton, Motown in Sag Harbor, Liszt and Chopin in Water Mill, garden workshop at Madoo, and more ghosts in Montauk

The Hamptons International Film Festival showed it still had the ability to surprise its guests on Sunday when Hugh Jackman made an unannounced appearance at the screening of his new film, Florian Zeller's "The Son." After the film, he sat down for a chat with David Nugent, the festival's artistic director.

A part-time employee in the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works was arrested on Friday for allegedly vandalizing village and private property, including the side of a village police car, in August. 

Doomsday paintings in Montauk, Jose Luis Vargas at Tripoli, a new duo at Nightingale, Phyllis Baker Hammond at J. Mackey, Guy Pene du Bois at Goldberg, Harper's in Paris, and other news and exhibitions in this week's Art Scene.

The Parrish Road Show, offsite in Hampton Bays, will feature a site-specific mural by the Shinnecock artist Denise Silva-Dennis depicting the history of the tribe's ancestral places.

Cauliflower Apple Puree

I know I have shared this recipe in the past, but it deserves a repeat. It is adapted from Daniel Boulud's "Cooking With Daniel Boulud" cookbook. Feel free to reduce the amount of cream to 1/2 cup like I do.

Serves four to six.

It's healthy, it's versatile, it's local, and it's in season—everything you need to know about cauliflower.

Classes and workshops at Amber Waves Farm, sushi, Peking duck, and Thai night at Highway Restaurant and Bar, L.I. Restaurant Week on the horizon, fermentation festival on the North Fork

A funeral for Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack, a pilot who died when his small plane crashed at the edge of Three Mile Harbor last Thursday, will be held on Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Old Whalers Church in Sag Harbor. Visiting hours will be Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton.

Saturday was a busy day for film viewing all across the South Fork with Hamptons International Film Festival screenings in East Hampton at the cinema and middle school, at the Sag Harbor Cinema, and at the Southampton Arts Center.

Allison McGovern, an archaeologist and anthropology lecturer at Columbia University, will speak at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 8, at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum about the origins of East Hampton's Freetown neighborhood, which Black and Indigenous people have called home for more than 200 years. Ms.

Four people were arrested in Montauk on Oct. 5 following an early morning raid in which a multi-agency team of investigators found $35,000 in cash, “drug distribution paraphernalia,” a 9-millimeter handgun, cocaine, and enough fentanyl to “kill over 1,000 people,” Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney’s office announced last week. 

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ 32nd annual Largest Clam Contest, set for Sunday, will take place in a modified form after heavy rains over several days prompted the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation to close some harbors to shellfishing this week. 

A small plane crashed on the edge of Three Mile Harbor in East Hampton on Thursday at about 12:30 p.m., killing the pilot, Kent I. Feuerring of Sagaponack.