After writing earlier this year to President Joseph R. Biden expressing their concerns and hopes for the future of the country, David Cataletto and his sixth-grade students at the East Hampton Middle School were pleasantly surprised when the children got a letter back from the president on June 9.

Turnout was light last weekend at Windmill Village on Accabonac Road in East Hampton, the site of early voting ahead of Tuesday's Democratic Party primary, in which there are races for the nomination for town supervisor, town board, and town trustee.

The lead character playing the part of Ahab these days is a commercial lobster diver from Provincetown, Mass., named Michael Packard, and in this updated adventure on the high seas, Packard, while diving near his hometown last week, said he was inhaled by a whale.

As throngs of people in East Hampton Village's commercial district pass the time shopping, dining, and doing errands, the village's high-tech parking enforcement vehicle scans the streets to make sure they haven't overstayed their welcome. Since the village started charging for parking in the Reutershan and Schenck lots last month, humans have been confused about the regulations, but the computer is programmed to know all.

The Wainscott Sewing Society's annual Strawberry Shortcake Festival returns on Sunday at the Wainscott Chapel from 2 to 4 p.m., or until Lisa and Bill Babinski's fresh farm stand berries run out.

“Lilyville,” Tovah Feldshuh’s memoir, is like a theater piece, full of shtick, one-liners, speeches, Yiddishisms, and the joys and sorrows of family life. The author knows a dramatic arc.

James Larocca, a Sag Harbor Village trustee mounting his first bid for mayor, pulled off an upset on Tuesday, unseating the first-term incumbent, Kathleen Mulcahy, with 379 votes to Ms. Mulcahy's 357. Aidan Corish and Robert Plumb, the incumbents running for the two open seats on the village board, were re-elected.

After falling just two votes shy of passing its over-the-tax-cap $20.66 million budget plan in May, the Bridgehampton School District found itself with a margin of just one vote that tipped the scale in its favor on Tuesday.

Hamptons Film's SummerDocs series returns to Guild Hall with three films highlighting 1960s Black music and culture, a controversial Leonardo da Vinci painting, and the world's greatest domino toppler.

Mary Abbott is the sole focus of an exhibition featuring her paintings of the 1950s at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in Springs. There she really shines, outdoing herself from canvas to canvas.

Guild Hall's backyard theater to welcome a guitar virtuoso, a talented singer-songwriter, and a Terrence McNally play.

Fred Leighton and Francisco Costa have collaborated on a unique necklace celebrating the Amazon rainforest to be auctioned at Phillips to benefit its people on June 25.

New shows at Borghi, Tripoli, and MM Fine Arts, new galleries from the city, a talk about Pollock and performance art, and "Whimsy" in Southampton.

On Tuesday, exactly one year, three months, and one week since the day that Suffolk County's first Covid-19 patient was admitted to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced that more than 70 percent of adult New Yorkers have received at least one vaccine shot and lifted most of the remaining pandemic restrictions on retail stores, restaurants, offices, gyms and fitness centers, amusement and family entertainment centers, hair salons and barber shops, and personal care businesses.

Latin American cinema celebrated in Sag Harbor, an arts and advocacy gala, and Pecha Kucha goes virtual

Lynn Blue Band at the Talkhouse, the Sturdy Souls at the Montauket and Surf Lodge, Sunset Fridays return to Wolffer, the Lone Sharks at the Clubhouse, music on Shelter Island, and more

The Bridgehampton School District’s 2021-2022 budget goes to a revote Tuesday, June 15, after its original 8.93-percent tax-levy increase was knocked down to 6.49 percent — still piercing the tax cap — when $400,000 of unanticipated income was discovered during a re-examination of the original spending plan.

No matter how you slice it, these pizza places have staying power, and a key ingredient in their recipes is the bond that holds a family together.

News from Wolffer, a strawberry festival, Father's Day specials at Navy Beach, and more

The Mimi Meehan Native Plant Garden behind Clinton Academy on Main Street is in full flower. It is a project of the Garden Club of East Hampton and may be visited during daylight hours. Visitors should be careful to close the gate behind them so that deer do not get into the garden.