Next up in Bay Street Theater's weekly online story times is Linsey Davis, author of the children's book "Stay This Way Forever," on Saturday at 10:30 a.m. Filled with playful rhymes, the book is aimed at helping children discover their own unique qualities. The cost is $15 and tickets can be bought online at baystreet.org.

"It seems like we're in a very good place right now," Barbara Dayton, the Springs School Board president, said on Monday just before she and her colleagues voted to put a $30.8 million budget proposal on the May 18 school ballot for the 2021-22 academic year.

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On the May 18 ballot for the Wainscott School District, voters will see a $3,829,017 spending plan that stays within the state-mandated limit on tax-levy increases. The district's tax-cap compliance comes on the heels of two prior years of over-the-cap budgets.

Saturday marks the launch of Suffolk's Stop-Arm Camera Program, which will outfit fleets of school buses across the county with technology to enforce a law commonly violated by drivers: that they stop for stopped school buses with flashing lights.

President Biden's announcement on Earth Day that the United States will cut greenhouse gas emissions to 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by the end of this decade was hailed by South Fork activists this week as commensurate with the urgency of the climate crisis.

As downtown Montauk continues to wait for a long-promised federal government effort to protect its eroded ocean beaches, the Army Corps of Engineers has delayed the project to 2023. This has spurred Concerned Citizens of Montauk to gather almost 1,200 signatures on a petition demanding the project start this year, as the Army Corps had previously signaled it would.

The solar array is to be situated at the North Sea Transfer Station, a former landfill. The town announced the request last Thursday, Earth Day.

Pandemic-related restrictions on restaurants, gyms, offices, casinos, and catered events, will be relaxed the coming weeks in New York, a direct result of improving Covid rates in the state, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Wednesday.

Following C.D.C. guidance, New Yorkers who are fully vaccinated will no longer be required to wear masks outdoors, "except in certain crowded settings and venues," and to make it easier to get the vaccine, the state is opening all of its mass vaccination sites to walk-ins. 

The Sag Harbor Whaling and Historical Museum will reopen on Saturday with an exhibition of photographs of the East End taken by William Wallace Tooker circa 1895.

On Monday, the Golden Pear Cafe marked 30 years on Newtown Lane in East Hampton.

Tomi Ungerer’s final children’s book follows a flight through a harrowing dystopia, while Kate McMullan celebrates spring and Katharine Holabird just celebrates.

Food news in Montauk, Cinco de Mayo fiestas, specials galore, Mothers Day menus, new seasonal openings, and more

For American artists whose papers don't naturally relate to a specific site, like a historic house or associated academic setting, the chief repository is the Archives of American Art. In January, it accepted the papers of Howard Kanovitz, an artist who lived and worked all over the South Fork during his career and died in 2009.

On Friday, Bay Street Theater, in partnership with the Rock Project, will present “Reflections of ‘Who’s Next," a concert celebration of the 50th anniversary of the album.

“Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island, 1950-2020,” an exhibition of work by 40 artists who have expanded the language of abstraction, often through important innovations, will open Sunday at the Parrish Art Museum.

"Down and Dirty" features Bonnie Rychlak and Jeanne Silverthorne and "High Noon" is a show of work by Elizabeth Hazan.

The Church welcomes new residents, Artists Alliance hangs their shingle at Ashawagh, bereavement at Pollock-Krasner, and more

Telly and Inda at the Talkhouse, Alfredo Merat and Marcello Pimenta at Baron's Cove, and The Jam Session