Frederic Tuten at Harper's, Sean Kinney at Tripoli, three painters at Grenning. Cordy Ryman and a group show at Halsey McKay, Springs artist directory.

Blues concert at LTV, classical piano in Southampton, jazz night at the Masonic Temple, acting workshop from Boots on the Ground, "Bonackers" film on WLIW-TV.

Easter specials from 1770 House, Fresno, Highway, Bell and Anchor, Il Buco al Mare, Elaia Estiatorio, Calissa, and Wolffer, plus a tasting of Peruvian cuisine at Baker House 1650.

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Summer crushes, wedding flings, and academic rivals. These are the tropes in this trio of young adult romance books that are perfect for reading on a fine spring day.

A strong turnout from East Hampton residents dubious about plans to build affordable housing in their neighborhoods has at least temporarily derailed the town’s efforts to purchase four parcels of land from Suffolk County.

In his new book, “The Angry Skies: A Physician’s Journey Into Cambodia’s Heart of Darkness,” Dr. Blake Kerr writes of his six trips to Cambodia, traveling to Khmer Rouge enclaves, meeting some of the architects of the genocide, and gathering information from victims and perpetrators of the atrocities there.

A theme of “Keep Calm and Carry On” may seem incongruous with the barrage of dire environmental statistics, but the 2025 State of the Bays report on Long Island’s waterways, delivered by Christopher Gobler of Stony Brook University’s School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, did include some encouraging though smaller-scale developments.

A balloon, three feet in diameter, hovering exactly 150 feet above the location of a proposed communications tower behind the Springs Firehouse on April 21 will be part of a test that will allow people to assess the visual impact of a proposed 150-foot tower from many vantage points. The new tower would replace the one that is already there.

A proposed amendment to the East Hampton Town Code that would allow certain projects to be defined as “community resources,” and thus exempt from compliance with the town zoning, planning, and architectural review board review, received a warm, if at times cautious, reception from the town board this week.

The proposed 2025-26 budget for the Springs School District will fall within the property tax cap for the first time in two years. The budget was finalized at $38,411,791, a 1.58-percent increase over last year.

Jennifer Buscemi, the Sag Harbor School District’s business administrator, started off her budget presentation this week speaking about the federal grants the district receives — for this school year, the school was approved to receive $472,531.67 — and how the district would be affected if they were to be cut.

The Sag Harbor Village Board was receptive to a pitch on Tuesday to reduce single-use plastics, which the Surfrider Foundation says constitute the bulk of litter found at its beach cleanup efforts. 

The Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps is hoping to broaden its membership by allowing Sag Harbor residents who are in college, or doing an equivalent educational program, to be eligible to volunteer.

The Montauk Library’s 2025-26 operating budget passed 93 to 16.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows firemen fighting flames hidden behind the facade of the Edwards Theater, which was destroyed.

The Easter Bunny will be making appearances at egg hunts at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, the downtown Montauk green, the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society headquarters, and the Amagansett Youth Park on Saturday.

The Springs School joined people around the world in celebrating World Down Syndrome Day on March 21. The global awareness day has been observed by the United Nations since 2012 and is represented by the colors blue and yellow.

Ticketed for an open container Friday night on Springs-Fireplace Road, a man walked behind the squad car and began urinating on a tree in plain sight of the officer. When the officer approached him, the man shoved the ticket at him and ran away.

A driver who sustained an injury to his shoulder in an accident on the evening of April 2 was charged afterward with misdemeanor drunken driving.