"Over the past few weeks, there has been a significant decrease in the number of high school students attending in-person," Brittany Carriero, the school principal, said in an email to families.

The Amagansett School Board last week reviewed a second draft of next year's school budget, which is proposed at $11.9 million, up from this year's $11.37 million. If the district moves forward with the version presented, the year-over-year spending increase would be 4.7 percent.

Expressing concerns over the timeline of the district's major renovation and expansion project, the Springs School Board and administration on Monday postponed approving the official 2021-22 school calendar.

"The district did not have to search far for an individual who is intelligent, hard-working, curriculum focused, dedicated, and always puts students first," Debra Winter, the district superintendent, said during Monday's school board meeting.

More activities for kids and teens from the folks at the East Hampton, John Jermain, and Montauk libraries.

Here's what's coming up for kids during the February school vacation.

Sag Harbor's Board of Education, faced with a student petition to overturn a recent decision by the district superintendent, Jeff Nichols, not to let Pierson High student-athletes compete this winter in "high-risk" sports, once again seconded the superintendent at a meeting Monday night.

For the next season of his show "What Made America Great," which began airing this week on the Fox Nation streaming service, Brian Kilmeade was tasked with finding a local story with national appeal. Covid-19 made traveling tough, so it had to be close to home in New York for Mr. Kilmeade, one of the anchors of Fox and Friends.

In “What Becomes a Legend Most,” Philip Gefter shows Richard Avedon to be an eminent fashion photographer driven to be recognized as a great artist but met with disdain from the establishment.

Montauk Brewery has plans for several limited beer releases in 2021, starting today with the debut of a small-batch I.P.A. just in time for Valentine's Day. It's called Love Is. . . a Cold Beer, and apparently there's much to, uh, love about it. 

A new batch of Valentine's Day dinner specials from Water Mill to Amagansett

The working process of Claire Watson, from her early 1990s transformations of ordinary tobacco pipes into extraordinary objects to her recent constructions assembled from leather pattern parts, thread, and wood veneer, can be seen as a form of alchemy, one that often emerges from her personal history and her research.     

Jade Ford found love and a new career path as a traveling tailor and an up-cycled fashion designer in East Hampton after moving here from Brooklyn five years ago.

Hamptons Film honors Black History Month with a talk from its October festival on "With Drawn Arms." Other new releases are available to stream through its website.

Kelly Taxter, a curator of contemporary art at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, has been named the director of the Parrish Art Museum, the museum announced last week.

With Valentine's Day around the corner, the Friends of the Amagansett Library have picked an opportune time to launch a campaign asking the community to "Show Your Love" for the library and its soon-to-be flower and children's gardens, now in the planning stages.

Connie Fox goes solo at the Hecksher, six speak on "East End Collected 6," love-themed exhibitions, and more

A discussion of the future of museums and their relevancy and honors for Bay Street Theater

Peconic Baykeeper, an East End nonprofit that advocates for Long Island’s clean water, is looking for an upper-level undergraduate student or recent college graduate with a focus in biological or environmental science to work as a paid intern in the 2021 field season.

The East Hampton Fire Department put recent ice rescue training into action on Monday when a dog fell through the ice at Hook Pond.