School districts are using online surveys to gauge how their families are feeling about school attendance and whether they prefer in-person, remote, or hybrid learning. Their answers will help shape the coming months.

Grace Schulman casts her steady eye on mortality in her new collection of poems, “The Marble Bed.” Or, more accurately, she casts her eye on the things around her and they describe mortality back to her. 

With the number of Covid-19 cases in New York growing at a faster rate than at any point since the spring, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Wednesday that all New York State Liquor Authority-licensed establishments and gyms must close at 10 p.m. and that private gatherings in residences, whether inside or out, will be limited to no more than 10 people.

What if Americans were not as divided as we believe them to be? Indulge us for a moment to lay this out.

For months, the number of Covid-19 cases among East End residents held steady. Then, as the season turned and more people remained indoors, trouble began.

With reports from Peconic Bay poor, there was a sense that the scallop crop in town waters would be bad as well.

Peak 2020 was reached at 3 p.m. last Thursday with a phone call from a young woman in the office at the John M. Marshall Elementary School informing me that my son, Teddy, had been determined to be a true contact of a positive Covid-19 case in the fifth grade.

It might be time for Democrats to revisit the candidate selection process in the First Congressional District.

I thought Joe Biden’s victory speech was just right, reminding us to listen to our better angels.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first big job was filling his cabinet, and this year’s large Democratic field of candidates offers Joe Biden a chance to emulate him.

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A thriving gourmet shop and catering business that Jeanine Burge opened with her son here in May, Silver Spoon Specialties had a modest start 10 years ago with a food truck.

Thanksgiving dinners to take out or eat in from all over, Florence Fabricant on Zoom, and more dinner specials

Lonnie Holley introduced himself as "a self-taught artist from Alabama, and I'm living in Atlanta, Georgia. I work with found objects, as you can see," he said, gesturing to a sprawling pile of fabric, tree branches, strips of paper, leaves, silver and gold wire, an ax handle, and various other things he at one point referred to as "debris."

Honoring Veterans with ceremonies and perks.

"Photography's Last Century: The Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Collection" has had an interesting run since it opened on March 10 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Extended until the end of the month, there are still opportunities to see it live or to experience it virtually in a unique and free presentation by Rosanne Cash and A.M. Homes on Tuesday.

This weekend's OLA Film Festival, organized by the Organizacion Latino-Americana of Eastern Long Island, will include an in-person screening of "No," an award-winning 2012 Chilean film and a free virtual showing from Guild Hall of the Disney Studios cartoon "Inside Out." 

Situated in a village with such a rich whaling history, it's a wonder that Sag Harbor's Bay Street Theater has not previously presented a theatrical production of Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick." That will change on Tuesday, when the theater's Literature Live! series will stream a 90-minute version online.

Watermill Benefit
On the heels of its October reopening, the Watermill Center has announced its autumn benefit auction, which will go live on artsy.net from 2 to 5 p.m. on Wednesday and continue through Dec. 9. The auction will benefit the center and its artists, who can earn a 20 percent commission from the sale of their work.

On Monday at approximately 1 p.m., a tractor-trailer left the road in Water Mill and hit 13 vehicles in the Corrigan’s Service Station parking lot on Montauk Highway. The multi-vehicle crash did not cause any serious injuries, according to a Southampton Town Police Department release.