The age-old flip book format becomes a work of art in the hands of Soren Hope, who has a show in Manhattan.

Carl Safina talks to Caroline Sutton about her book of nature essays, and the M.F.A. program at the college throws open its doors, with a reading to boot.

Wine Wednesday Workshops have returned to Nick and Toni's restaurant, and Loaves and Fishes in Sagaponack offers high-quality, homemade baby food.

Next month, Maxim Bellenoue will become likely the first East Hampton High School student ever to run in the New York City Marathon, and will be among the youngest of the more than 55,000 runners expected to take part. 

The annual Tyler Valcich Memorial Car Show happens on Sunday at the Amagansett Firehouse.

Five months after Montauk voters rejected a $38 million capital bond for the district’s nearly century-old school, the superintendent and a member of the school board pitched a somewhat scaled back proposal that they plan to put to voters via a December referendum.

It seems that journalists aren’t the only people who watch town meetings — scammers do as well. And the information they collect has apparently been used to send invoices to applicants seeking approval for building projects before the town planning board or the zoning board of appeals.

A group of filmmakers, runners, walkers, and spectators will meet at Gubbins Perfect Fit in East Hampton Friday at 8 a.m. for a community 5K run and walk to Main Beach and back that is connected to the Hamptons International Film Festival screening of the documentary “Remaining Native.”

“I don’t feel like anybody can put me in a box,” said J.P. Foster, the sole Republican candidate for East Hampton Town Board this year. “I don’t feel like I fit in a Democrat or a Republican box. I fit in an East Hampton box. If there was an independent box, that’s where I’d be.”

The East Hampton Town Board was cautiously supportive this week of placing further restrictions on short-term rentals. “We are looking at commercial investments in our residential districts by investors who only seek to make profit and are not looking at being part of this community at all,” said Councilwoman Cate Rogers.

For the second straight year, the East Hampton Town budget will pierce the state-mandated 2-percent cap, shooting to nearly $110 million.

Suffolk County Legislator Ann Welker, a Democrat who is seeking a second term in the 2nd District, and her Republican challenger, Raheem Soto, spoke of their records and policy agendas in a debate hosted by the League of Women Voters on Monday.

Michael Hansen, a Democrat, and Jeff Miller, a Republican, made their pitches to Wainscott voters as they run to succeed Carole Brennan as town clerk, while Cate Rogers and Ian Calder-Piedmonte of the town board addressed issues of local concern.

The East Hampton Town Board awarded Bistrian Materials the bid to provide sand for the Ditch Plain dune restoration project. The company’s bid of $1,215,000 was the lowest received.

Unseasonably warm weather and the promise of hard clam delicacies including chowder, pies, and clams on the half shell drew what was likely the largest crowd in the history of the East Hampton Town Trustees’ annual Largest Clam Contest to the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum.

East Hampton Village is soon to be the first municipality east of the Shinnecock Canal to arm its police officers not just with guns, but with EpiPens.

An “older gentleman” was at the bar at Rosie’s in Amagansett with a younger woman who “did not appear to be his daughter,” another patron, who was “concerned about her well-being,” reported Friday night. But she was the man’s daughter.

A 31-year-old man faces felony charges for possessing forged documents following a traffic stop in Sag Harbor early Friday morning.

The Animal Rescue Fund's Stroll to the Sea fund-raiser, the annual two-mile dog walk from Mulford Farm to Main Beach and back, will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

A cyclist was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Friday afternoon after colliding with a BMW sedan on Route 114 in East Hampton.