It seems unreasonable that we should be ruled by the transit of the sun, but we are.

What, me worry?

Maybe it’s time to show deer some mercy.

By the end of the state championship weekend at Ithaca College, the Bonackers had finished first among the Section XI teams competing, overcoming adversity to rise to the top.

Nick Corredor, a 23-year-old bandleader and pianist from Hampton Bays, is already a seasoned salsa performer and leader of La Herencia, a nine-piece band with an enthusiastic following.

Danielle Epstein and Maxim Bellenoue, mother and son, are bringing an E-Motion Movement Community grief program to East Hampton this spring.

It was an unprecedented winter season for the Ross Lower School’s boys basketball teams.

Update: East Hampton Town police have identified a man found dead in Clearwater Beach in Springs on Tuesday, and said his death did not appear to be suspicious.

The Bridgehampton Museum is hosting a survey of the ambitious landscape paintings of Water Mill's Bruce Lieberman.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will host a five-week tribute to Luchino Visconti with films ranging from "Obsession," which launched the Italian neorealist movement, to his epic masterpiece, "The Leopard."

Martha Graham will be celebrated at The Church with performances by marionettes and a discussion about Ken Browar and Deborah Ory's new book of photographs of the dance company.

Charles Chemin, a French-American director, has been named artistic director of the Watermill Center, and Lara Sweeney is leaving the Children's Museum of the East End to take the helm of LongHouse Reserve.

There's a talk and reception for the Ellsworth Kelly show at the Parrish, and artists will hold forth at Dan Welden's studio.

Antiwar film classic from HamptonsFilm, standup at Bay Street, book launch at Guild Hall, open call from Hampton Theatre Company, Gilbert and Sullivan at Montauk Library, and a solo comedy show in Southampton are all on tap this week.

Miracle, a new restaurant from the co-founder of Fresno, is coming to Sag Harbor, and there are two weeks of St. Patrick's Day specials at Rowdy Hall and an Irish prix fixe at 1770 House.

Approximately 600 dead Canada geese, believed to be victims of avian flu, have been removed from around Georgica Pond in the last two days and buried in the sand, said Jim Grimes, an East Hampton Town trustee.

A significantly shorter list from late fall.

Amagansett Main Street’s 1951 makeover, Montauk Youth’s 1976 “Happy Days” dance, and more.

Hand-wringing, bafflement, and outrage. Behold the Star mailbag.

Patricia S. Burnett of East Hampton died on Feb. 24 at the age of 98. The Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton is handling arrangements.