The Children's Museum of the East End is opening up more hours for more fun, and other activities coming up for kids and teens.

An at-times furious argument ran throughout the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee's meeting Saturday as a resident of the hamlet repeatedly accused the East Hampton Town Board of misleading the State Department of Environmental Conservation and the Suffolk County Health Department as to firefighting foam stored at East Hampton Airport.

Expressions of guilt pervade Bina Bernard’s wrenching debut novel about a Polish Jewish couple’s desperate struggle to protect their children during the Holocaust.

There are several troubling aspects in a recent State Commission on Judicial Ethics determination that East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana violated New York Judiciary Law and the State Constitution’s Article 6 in assisting David Gruber’s 2019 campaign for town supervisor. First of all, it was a dumb thing to do, and second, when caught, Ms. Rana and Mr.

Covid-19 deaths among Black and Latino New Yorkers far outpaced the rate at which members of the white population died. But people of color in the state are getting vaccinated far less than their Caucasian counterparts. Having been hit hardest by the pandemic, they are now not getting the help they need to stay healthy.

With the release of an architect’s rendering of a new Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor, interest and enthusiasm for the project is sure to build. Also notable is that Friends of Bay Street, a nonprofit, announced this week that it hoped to buy a nearby eyesore building, tear it down, and replace it with open space. But there are questions, too.

I can remember quite clearly the conversation with a friend who knew a thing or two about town politics. At least a dozen years ago, he and I got into it about if anyone really wanted to close the East Hampton Airport. I said no; he said I was wrong. Cut to, as they say, today, and it is clear that my friend was onto something.

I’m never happier than when the power goes out, and all the humming machines, low-buzzing appliances, furnaces, and neighborhood pool heaters shut down, and the house goes quiet. Partly I feel this relief because, like Greta Garbo, I just want to be left alone . . .

The dull warehouse has come in for reconsideration in light of Amazon’s exponential growth and the drive for unionization.

Soon, I’m told, we’ll be able to grow six marijuana plants (or is it 12 per couple filing jointly?), which, as I said to Mary, may impel me to get back to gardening again.

Some variation of your life partner getting on your last nerve is inevitable. This was especially true in 2020, the year we rolled back the clock to 1918.

AMAGANSETT

Mulford Lane L.L.C. to Marina Zimina, 97 Mulford Lane, Sept. 18, $825,000.

Beowulf Capital L.L.C. to Cara and John Fry, 73 Gardiner Drive, Jan. 8, $1,875,000.

82 Beach L.L.C. to David and Kyra Barry, 82 Beach Avenue, Jan. 12, $2,200,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Litter Is Winning
Springs
March 31, 2021

Dear Mr. Rattray,

A proposal that would allow outdoor dining to become a post-pandemic fixture in East Hampton Village's commercial district and at its historic inns was introduced at a village board meeting on Thursday and will be the subject of a public hearing on Friday, April 16. 

Several medical studies have shown the power of gratitude. I am grateful for every single nurse, certified nursing assistant, technician, sanitary worker, cafeteria worker, and staff member in the hospitals where I work who did not give an inch in this fight, who offered me weary smiles and kind words after long shifts.

Clubhouse reopens, a new gyro truck for Calissa, new management at Old Stove, and more

Renee Cox left fashion photography three decades ago to make artwork that deconstructs stereotypes and challenges preconceived ideas about gender and race. "My goal has often been to produce art that will take people out of their comfort zone and produce healthy discourses," she said.

Just over a century after the Sag Harbor Cinema, then the Elite Theatre, emerged from lockdown during the 1918 influenza epidemic, and less than five years since fire all but destroyed it, the cinema will open its doors again Friday.

More than one year and an aborted midsummer restart later, live music will return to the Stephen Talkhouse Friday with a solo performance by Nancy Atlas at 8 p.m. The venue will host a trivia contest Thursdays beginning this week, and Josh Brussell will play solo sets this Saturday night at 7 and 9.

In-person screenings of "Black Art: In the Absence of Light" at the Parrish Art Museum, a show at Mark Borghi Gallery, John Torreano at Keyes Gallery, and more