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Kids Culture for April 21, 2022

Waking “Sleeping Beauty”

The Hampton Ballet Theatre School will perform “Sleeping Beauty,” featuring talented students alongside professional dancers, plus original choreography and hand-sewn costumes, for four shows starting on Friday, April 29.

Lily Pond Lane Construction Decision Is Delayed

A project at 33 Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton Village, with a 15-year history of court battles and angry neighbors, and tens of millions of dollars at stake, may have met its match in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Item of the Week: The Circus Comes to Guild Hall, 1954

This image shows visitors lining up outside to experience Joe Gangler’s Pink Lemonade Circus, performing on July 8, 1954, in Guild Hall’s John Drew Theater.

On Sustainable Landscapes

A panel discussion on sustainable land care will happen on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. at The Church at 48 Madison Street in Sag Harbor.

On the Police Logs 04.21.22

Graffiti, including drawings of “male genitalia” together with the statement that “life sucks,” were found on Friday at the bus stop on Newtown Lane.

Fight Resulted in Injuries

According to East Hampton Town police, a man brandished a weapon during an altercation and punched a victim multiple times in the face, causing pain and bleeding and necessitating medical attention.

Driver Was Reported Missing

A Pennsylvania woman who had been reported missing was found in Amagansett last Thursday when she crashed her car into a utility pole.

Robert Vernon Fisher

Robert Vernon Fisher of Fishers Home Furnishings in Sag Harbor died of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at his Latham Street house in that village on March 25. He was 76.

Florence L. Thiele

Florence Lainhart Thiele of Mariner Sands, a private community in Stuart, Fla., died of congestive heart failure on Friday. A summer resident of East Hampton, she was 94.

Family Matters

Martha Wainwright on the anxieties and influences of growing up in a musical dynasty.

South Fork Poetry: ‘Good Things’

From “New York,” a poetry collection by Lucas Hunt due out from Thane & Prose on May 2.

On the Water: Time to Set Sail

I had a bit of trepidation as I started the 370-horsepower diesel engine. After writing numerous checks this winter that amounted to nearly $30,000 for a multitude of repairs to my 20-year-old craft, would it hold up?

Bonac Baseball Has Made the Playoffs

All three high school varsity baseball teams in this area — East Hampton, Pierson, and Bridgehampton — were doing well going into this week.

Darts Champ Has Pro Aspirations

Sheaugh Costello can hit her targets with ease, dominating in team tournaments regionally and both team and solo play in New York State and the eastern United States.

Third Win in a Row for the Girls Track Team

The April 12 win over Half Hollow Hills West was Bonac’s third in a row, the first time apparently since 2016 that a girls track team here has begun a season at 3-0.

Think Beyond the C.P.F.

An aptly described monster is rising over Ditch Plain.

Forecast Improves for Quieter Skies

Despite a late start in coming up with new rules for East Hampton Airport, the town appears to be making progress.

The Mast-Head: Sea Turtles’ Dinner

I had a realization, of sorts, swimming in the warm water off Puerto Rico last week.

The Shipwreck Rose: My Vanity

Even when I was a punk-rock teenager of 15 and 16, I kept a carefully curated vanity table, my bottles of drugstore body lotion and mail-order pins and badges displayed like a still life, like a Joseph Cornell assemblage.

Gristmill: Big Blow

This year the fun was bled right out of TurboTax.