Census 2020 is coming, but many East End residents are at risk of not being counted.

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Long ago and far away, back when I was an eighth-grader at Horace Mann Elementary school in Bayonne, N.J., I was given an aptitude evaluation and tested high for “persuasion.” I don’t remember what methods they used to determine what our defining character traits were — traits that might indicate what lines of work we were best suited for. But I do remember that my own defining characteristic was this one, slightly poetic, word.

There is nothing like a good, old-fashioned global panic to get people moving on an important issue like climate change.

I’m living a life of quiet desperation at the moment, for nothing is hoving into view on the sportive horizon. I have, as Georgie and her peers say, reached out, though no one thus far has reached out to me. I guess I’ll go on reaching out. Surely something (or someone) will turn up. . . .

I am among that elite group of people who can afford not to work, or, as in my case, were tossed out of it, and who easily lose track of days — all days, in fact, are rather the same.

In January, after 12 straight months of decline, revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund were up more than 66 percent from the same period last year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced last week.

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It’s been 40 years since Brid­gehampton High fielded a baseball team, but now one’s in the making.

“Do you want to know what her day is like?” Kevin McConville, who coaches East Hampton High’s girls and boys tennis teams, said of his number-one singles player, Juliana Barahona. “She goes to school until 3, hits with me from 3 to 4:45, and then goes to work at the Sag Harbor Gym from 5 to 10.”

Vinny Alversa, East Hampton High’s baseball coach, and Annemarie Cangiolosi Brown, the softball coach, had their charges rotate among stations that focused on hitting, fielding, pitching, catching, and on catching fly balls.

A fund-raiser for the Katy’s Courage Foundation, a nonprofit in memory of Katy Stewart, who at the age of 12 died of a rare form of liver cancer nine years ago, is to be held at the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton Sunday.

The day the world champion double Dutch rope-jumping team visited East Hampton High, and memories of Paul Giardina’s thoroughbred training days.

The Pierson girls basketball team will play for the county B-C-D championship Saturday at St. Joseph's College in Patchogue.

For the last 81 and 67 years, annual end-of-the-year, or Christmas, bird counts have taken place without fail in two nearby areas, Quogue to Water Mill, and Central Suffolk. The tradition lives on and is increasingly revealing.

Police said Justin Williams, 23, of Middle Island cased the houses while working in the area.     

The 1979 suicide of Jean Seberg has been an inspiration to Margia Kramer and others after her series of art projects based on Seberg's F.B.I. surveillance files.

“Water/Ways,” a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian Institution, will open at the Clinton Academy Museum in East Hampton on Saturday and remain on view through April 11.

The “Community Art Exhibition” at Grain Surfboards, hosted by the design group Stick + Stone, boasts an extended list of contributors, many from the surf and artist community here.