Rabbi Joshua Franklin of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will travel to the Polish-Ukrainian border on April 9, along with a delegation of about 25 American and Israeli rabbis who will partner with organizations that are actively assisting Ukrainian Jews and others who have fled Russia’s invasion of their country.

April Fools’ Day may be an unofficial holiday traditionally observed with pranks, jokes, and hoaxes every April 1, but this broadside for the “Fantastic, Grand Barbaric, and Cavalric Parade of April Fools” came from a Sag Harbor parade marking the occasion on April 3, 1871.

Henriette Abel Stackpole, a physician who had a summer home in Amagansett, died on March 3 at Huntington Common in Kennebunk, Me. She was 87.

Richard Joseph Sigmund of Brooklyn and Springs, an artist and art installer, died of cancer on March 16 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 71.

Patricia B. Zaykowski, the first woman to be elected president of the Sag Harbor School Board, died at home in Dunedin, Fla., on March 10 after a brief illness. She was 89.

The Sag Harbor Cinema and the Plain Sight Project, an initiative that aims to identify all enslaved people, as well as free people of color, who lived and worked on the East End and other Northern towns in America, have together received a $200,000 federal grant sponsored by Senator Charles E. Schumer.

The East Hampton Library's reference department will host a Zoom exploration of libraries around the world on Wednesday at 6 p.m. to mark National Library Week.

The eastern phoebe is just starting to show up on the East End after a winter down South, bringing with it the promise of coming warmth and humidity — and bird song.

Spring began for a few of East Hampton High School’s teams last week, and the results, from baseball to girls lacrosse, were good all around.

The East End Blaze, an entry in the Professional Inline Hockey Association’s Northeast Division, is to make its one-and-only appearance at its home Sportime Arena rink in Amagansett Saturday.

From the return of the pine beetle to overdevelopment and oversized houses, our readers have their say.

An 1897 ice house gets its fill of “excellent quality” frozen blocks from Down East, and Governor Dewey crowns the Potato Queen of 1947 in Riverhead.

Why are easy-to-enforce local laws ignored every single day of the year?

In late March, researchers published a study that detected microplastics in the blood samples of more than three-quarters of their anonymous, healthy volunteers.

The osprey’s success story.

Recollections of an ancestor's relief work in Mariupol, Ukraine, a century ago.

Word from sunny Florida raises hopes for a revived piano circuit.

I was delighted to tell Mary the other day what I’d learned, to wit, that the Gaelic word saoirse “means freedom . . . the freedom to be and to express yourself.”

A Frankie Avalon show at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead raises questions: What happened to romance? Where have the good times gone?

The week sees an uptick in real estate action, with Noyac and East Hampton leading the way.