A free Covid-19 testing center will operate in Springs on Monday for one day only from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments for the rapid tests can be scheduled by calling 631-899-3441.

Federal lawmakers on Monday passed a $1.4 trillion general appropriations bill that includes a provision to halt the public auction of Plum Island, the pristine 840-acre island that is officially part of Southold Town but is owned by the federal Department of Homeland Security.

Several churches are holding services for Christmas with online or in-person attendance.

Deep winter is a good time to get into dips and fondues. They are easy and communal (for your safe little pod at home), and can be rich, decadent, and celebratory or junky and naughty for couch-tatering and watching sports.

New Year's Eve dinner offerings from Lulu Kitchen, Nick and Toni's, and Bell and Anchor are on the table as well as a virtual cooking class from Stefanie Sacks.

Since March, the Willem de Kooning Foundation has provided $550,000 in grants and challenge grants to several East End organizations, with a focus on Springs, to address hunger, child care, and medical care. That is in addition to contributions of $2.15 million to the much broader arts community.

With less gathering and more cocooning this holiday season, don't forget the rich trove of virtual offerings by South Fork's arts organizations when it's time to cozy up to the couch.

At any year's end, it's a good time to take stock and reflect on what has happened since the last Jan. 1. This year might require something deeper and more elaborate.

The East Hampton School District on Tuesday awarded contracts to construction companies for the new bus depot the district is going to build at the former scavenger waste property on Springs-Fireplace Road.

The New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance has honored four South Fork high school seniors for their athletic prowess and leadership in physical education and health classes, as well as their academic achievements and outstanding character.

After the administration put together a survey about what Spirit Day themes the children would like to see in school next week, students cast their votes.

In partnership with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, the East Hampton School District has continued to test its students and staff members for Covid-19, turning up zero positive cases out of what are now 290 tests.

You can come from the depths of salt-of-the-earth New England and still know nothing of the East Hampton clam pie. I should know. I am such a person. I was raised in Newburyport, Mass., home to such icons as the American Coast Guard, William Lloyd Garrison's Liberator Magazine, and parts of the Underground Railroad.

Route 114 near Whooping Hollow Road in East Hampton was closed because of a downed utility pole that fell Thursday morning. There were no injuries, according to East Hampton Town police, and PSEG was working to repair the damage. 

The annual Santa Parade in East Hampton Village has been canceled because of the pandemic, but the village and the Chamber of Commerce are offering a safe, festive way for families to celebrate the holidays: drive-in movies at Lot 2 of the Main Beach parking lot.

Storytime sessions, a historic building tour, art workshops, and more coming up for kids and families.

If all goes according to plan, four of the club's Har-Tru courts will be under an outdoor 85-by-200-foot National Hockey League-size ice rink and open for business as of Saturday, marking the beginning of the Buckskill Winter Club's 16th season.

Rigor is a word that comes up again and again in the discussion of Dorothy Ruddick's life. The artist, who devised a way that fiber art could be used in combination with drawing and painting to create something else entirely, is on the precipice of a significant rediscovery.

"Julian Schnabel: Trees of Home (For Peter Beard),” features six new plate paintings dedicated to Beard, who was his neighbor in Montauk, and will open Saturday at the Vito Schnabel Gallery in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton has announced the addition of four new members to its board of trustees: Caroline Baumann, Derick T. George, Ayse Manyas Kenmore, and Fitzhugh Karol.