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The family returned from Italy this week, had no contact with the Montauk School since their return, and will be in precautionary quarantine at home for 14 days.

The weather was fine Monday as East Hampton High’s teams — boys and girls track, girls lacrosse, baseball, softball, and boys tennis — engaged in inaugural spring practices.

Gino Fava has for a while been a proponent of the underhand serve, the use of which often is viewed as an underhanded tactic by receivers.

“We can either win everything or we can bomb,” Kevin Bunce said of the Section XI Warriors the other day.

Kal Lewis, Shelter Island High School’s star long-distance runner, topped all public high school contestants in the state’s 1,600-meter indoor race at the Ocean Breeze Athletic Complex on Staten Island Saturday.

Boys tennis plays at Half Hollow Hills East Tuesday, and the girls lacrosse team is home Wednesday for a scrimmage.

Monday was the warmest day since November. It reached 60 degrees in Noyac and thoughts of winter evaporated into thoughts of spring and the turning of the earth from dull gray to bright green.

For the past two years, the Guild Hall Members Exhibition has allowed a peek behind the curtain just after the appraisal of the winners has finished. On Friday, this year’s jurist, Susan Thompson, an associate curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, offered insights into her methodology in a forthright and thoughtful way.

Xenophobia, at its rotten core, is ignorance. And ignorance, as Anna Sewell’s “Black Beauty” has taught children since its 1877 publication, is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness.

The Southampton Cultural Center is offering three-course dinner-theater packages with “Sherlock’s Secret Life,” its current production from Boots on the Ground Theater. This critic’s advice: Skip the dessert course, because the play is a delightful and satisfying confection.

Just what exactly is the legacy of Harry Houdini, this remarkable magician, escape artist, movie star, aviator, author, and investigator of the paranormal?

A Los Angeles food primer, from a poolside lunch to a celebratory meal at a classic, and the best of the high and low of West Coast cuisine

Get ready for corned beef and cabbage and all things Irish for St. Patrick's Day, more restaurant specials, the Clam Bar reopens, and more

The Drawing Room gallery is filled with work by five of its regular stable of artists — Gustavo Bonevardi, Sue Heatley, Hector Leonardi, Vincent Longo, and Aya Miyatake — who inadvertently express through abstraction and their own processes what it feels and looks like outside.

"Cyrano de Bergerac" and "The Flying Dutchman" have screenings at Guild Hall, new HamptonsFilm's screenings, women speaking about migration, and more

Alice Hope at Tripoli, another exhibition pops up at Markel, and Howard Kanovitz has a show in Riverhead.

The United States Postal Service has announced plans to remove a mailbox from the Bridgehampton Commons, in front of the King Kullen grocery store.

"The volume collected from this collection box is no longer significant enough at this location to warrant keeping [one] there," the Postal Service said in a notice placed on the mailbox and tacked up at post offices regionally.

The man in his 40s is being treated at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, and the brewing company has closed its Peconic location for a thorough cleaning. As of Tuesday morning, he remained the county's only confirmed case of the virus.

As Patchita Tennant's trial on attempted murder charges began in Riverhead on Monday, six witnesses took the stand for the prosecution, including the Southampton Town police dispatcher who answered the victim's 911 call after the shooting.