An online program designed to highlight the power of poetry to influence music, dance, and video art will launch the spring season of Reflections next Thursday.

The spring auction season is offering some new opportunities to see art that would not normally be in the mix out here. This week, it is photographs in the Phillips auction house's spring sale on view in its Southampton galleries.

Master Gardeners Spring Gardening School will be held virtually this year for the first time in its 30-year history. The day-long program from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off on Saturday morning with a keynote address by Doug Tallamy.

Concerts, film screenings, lectures, and more are all part of the cultural offerings this week.

Frank Wimberley goes solo in Chelsea and another group artist talk at the Southampton Arts Center

Starting on Wednesday morning, people will be able to schedule appointments for Covid-19 vaccinations at a new state-run site opening Friday at Stony Brook Southampton college campus.

The money was borrowed 10 years ago, with permission of the New York State Legislature, to address a financial shortfall due to fiscal mismanagement. The final $162,700 payment on the bond was issued this week.

Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind and Eversource Energy, developers of the proposed South Fork Wind farm, were to commence pavement borings in the roadway on Montauk Highway west of the intersection of Wainscott Northwest Road as early as Monday. 

A new, ad-hoc committee called the Hamptons Neighborhood Group — consisting of more than 140 property owners and "interested parties" — will hold a Zoom meeting on Tuesday at 6 p.m. to discuss the Shinnecock Indian Nation's proposed casino.

Another round of workshops and academic assistance courses via Project Most’s School Vacation Learning Lab is open to kids as young as 4 years old through fifth graders over spring break, March 29 to April 2. 

With six women so far coming forward to accuse Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior and alleged cover-ups of nursing home deaths during the earlier days of the pandemic and safety concerns about the newly opened Mario Cuomo Bridge, support for an impeachment inquiry is growing among Albany lawmakers. 

The annual St. Patrick's Day parade in Montauk may have been canceled, but you can still get a taste of the holiday this weekend.

Greg and Ernie Schimizzi, brothers who run Hamptons Television, WVVH-TV, out of East Hampton, will be inducted into the New York State Broadcasters Hall of Fame in October after 44 years of working together in the film and television business.

Following the lead of 1,903 jurisdictions in 34 countries, the East Hampton Town Board unanimously approved a climate emergency declaration committing the board to making climate mitigation and the elimination of greenhouse gas emissions "a guiding principle of . . . all aspects of town business for the foreseeable future."

The Eastville Community Historical Society in Sag Harbor is reeling over the vandalism of gravestones in the St. David A.M.E. Zion Cemetery on Eastville Avenue. The damage was discovered on Tuesday as members of the society were outdoors on a nice day and happened to stop by for a visit.

Idoline Scheerer, a fixture at Georgica Beach for more than 65 years, built a revered and enviable community of friends and family at her century-old shingled house behind the dune.

The Springs School is weighing many moving parts as it develops its 2021-22 spending plan, with anticipated increases in areas such as school busing, custodial services, and bathroom and classroom updates.

There were to have been five athletic contests involving East Hampton High School teams Tuesday, and three — field hockey, boys soccer, and boys volleyball — went off as scheduled. A boys cross-country meet with Islip that was to have been held at Belmont Lake State Park in West Babylon that afternoon was canceled.

The first game to be played on East Hampton High School's turf field in a long while was contested by the East Hampton and Pierson boys soccer teams Monday in typically brisk Bonac spring weather. The nonleaguer — the first of the season for both teams — was, in contrast, hotly contested, though the Bonackers proved to be the more solid squad, and thus wound up winning 2-0.

"We need a more diverse police force," Sandra Dunn of East Hampton Town's Police Reform and Reinvention Committee told the town board on Tuesday. Just four of 65 officers are Latino, she said, and the department has just one African-American member, a detective. Nine officers are women.