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.

Suffolk County's Covid-19 positive rate has been creeping upward in recent weeks, and on Sunday hit 3.8 percent, the highest seen in months, with 324 people testing positive for the virus. 

With Suffolk County reporting a steady increase in the Covid-19 positivity rate, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen announced on Monday that Village Hall will be closed to the public starting Thursday and through the end of the year.

By Monday morning, South Fork school districts had reported three more cases of Covid-19 diagnosed since Friday. The affected districts are Montauk, Sag Harbor, and East Hampton.

The Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays will host an online training session on Tuesday for people who have an interest in volunteering to care for sick, injured, or orphaned wild animals.

Shortly after 9, many East Enders felt an earthquake that rumbled about nine kilometers off the coast of Massachusetts. Facebook posts reflected their experience from Montauk to Sagaponack to Sag Harbor and Shelter Island.

On Thursday, Gail Baranello, co-owner of the A&G Dance Company, will lead a gentle, Covid-safe workshop called Moving Through Isolation, based around how people have been feeling during the pandemic.

Two entire classrooms of children at the John M. Marshall Elementary School are in quarantine through Nov. 19 after two cases of Covid-19 were confirmed among fifth-grade students this week. Additionally, two more cases have been diagnosed among East Hampton High School students, and one among the support staff at the Wainscott School.

East Hampton Town residents who have been holding on to those old paints, half-full gas cans, and the like can safely dispose of them on Saturday in Montauk.

On Thursday morning, the assistant district attorney agreed with legal counsel for Charles Streep to dismiss the felony charges, second-degree assault and strangulation, from charges related to Mr. Streep’s alleged Aug. 24 attack on David Peralta in East Hampton Village.

Jennifer Buscemi, a previous full-time business administrator for the Sag Harbor School District who later became a consultant to the district, will return in a full-time capacity starting Dec. 1.

The Springs School Board on Monday approved two resolutions to address a $2.3 million budget surplus leftover from the 2019-20 school year.