ReWild, East Hampton Compost, and the Town of East Hampton will collect pumpkins, old jack-o-lanterns and the like at three locations on Saturday for composting purposes.

The Old Whalers Church will host its annual community interfaith Thanksgiving service next Thursday at 7 p.m. Ministers here from diverse faith traditions will be on hand, and it will end with a “pie extravaganza.”

A food drive and fund-raiser benefiting two food pantries here will take place on Sunday at the Kidd Squid Brewing Company in Sag Harbor.

Varied and various, it’s the Star’s bulging mailbag.

Karl Grossman, an author and educator who has tirelessly advocated for the environment and journalism, and against nukes, will be honored on Saturday at the Sag Harbor Cinema in a fund-raiser hosted by Fred Thiele. 

This weaver’s account book was kept by Benjamin Parsons, who began recording business transactions in 1794. His father was one of 49 weavers in East Hampton who signed the 1778 Loyalty Oath to the British.

More moves hereabouts, realty-wise.

In 1975, the head of the county’s Migrant Affairs Council said his life had been threatened, his wife possibly shot at, and a bounty offered for “doing him in” following raids on East End migrant worker camps. And more, of not quite such drama, ripped from our past pages.

Nancy Pardue Scheerer, who grew up in East Hampton and summered on West End Road in the village from childhood until 2023, died on Oct. 31 in Duxbury, Mass. She was 96.

In the spirit of The Old Farmer’s Almanac, here are a few winterizing suggestions of our own for the homeowners and homesteaders of Old Bonac.

The success of Netflix’s “A House of Dynamite,” about the 18 minutes preceding the destruction of Chicago in a nuclear attack, has renewed discussion about the profound danger of nuclear war.

Eelgrass has disappeared and warmer water has brought a certain parasite, but there is some hope.

Sometimes I have these memory visions in which I recapture for a moment very clearly the feeling of stability and permanence of American life in the late 20th century.

An eventful final meet of the season at Sunken Meadow State Park sends four Whalers to the state cross-country championships.

What’s different now is what happened to photovoltaics — the steady decline in the price of panels.

Heidi A. Johanson of East Hampton, a special education teacher in the Greenport School District who retired in 2014, died on Nov. 1 at the Acadia Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Riverhead. She was 66.

Responding Friday night to a report of a structure fire on Further Lane, an officer spoke with the homeowner, who explained that he’d left a piece of pie in the microwave for too long.

A Nissan sedan collided with a Range Rover on Amagansett’s Main Street, and in Springs it was a BMW and a Buick.

Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” from 2018, and “Honey Bee,” a 2017 short film by Jack Kendrick, will be shown on Sunday at 11 a.m. at the Sag Harbor Cinema, followed by a panel discussion on adolescent anxiety and social media.

As one gallery at Guild Hall opens an exhibition Saturday of works by the pioneering artist Robert Rauschenberg, who would have turned 100 this year, the other will be filled with student work inspired by Rauschenberg’s innovation.