The newest book club in town is at the East Hampton Starbucks, and its first book selection honors Black History Month with a special emphasis on Jamaican culture. The book is "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon.

In East Hampton, educators are getting ready to expand a pilot kindergarten program in which half the school day is taught in English and half in Spanish, citing success better than they could have projected.

This summer an entry-level firefighting class is being planned in Wainscott, making it the perfect time for people on the South Fork to get involved in the fire service, local fire chiefs say. 

Hold on to your sailor hats. Bella Noche, a drag queen who performs as a mermaid, is headlining the first Drag Queen Story Hour at the Children’s Museum of the East End on Feb. 15.

Neonicotinoid insecticides, also known as neonics, are doing more than killing bees and other insects in record numbers, according to a report issued last month by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an international environmental advocacy group.

Samantha Prince has been named the East Hampton High School class of 2020 valedictorian, and Wells Woolcott has been named the class salutatorian.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton is about to celebrate a milestone, and to help tell its story the center is searching for people who were involved in its very early days.

WPPB’s call letters are to be changed to WLIW in the coming months, according to a statement WNET issued on Friday.

Too many financial factors were up in the air for the Springs School District to be able to present a draft during a 2020-21 budget workshop on Monday, school officials said.

Brandon Broderick, a geologist and the president of a company that tested soil at the Sag Harbor Learning Center, put to rest school board members’ worries over arsenic contamination during a Jan. 27 meeting of the board.

Suffolk Legislator Bridget Fleming has announced that four village mayors have endorsed her campaign for New York’s First Congressional District. Jeff Sander of North Haven, Peter Sartorius of Quogue, Kathleen Mulcahy of Sag Harbor, and Don Louchheim of Sagaponack have endorsed her bid to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin, the campaign announced last Thursday.     

The plans to install the pole will not be revisited until all parties can agree on a new riser pole design and location, according to a PSEG Long Island spokeswoman.

Valentine-related programs abound this week, but that's not all that's happening for kids and teens.

Across Long Island and New England, enslaved Black people were present from the beginnings of the colony. Here, they toiled alongside their enslavers, without the right to control their fate, but helping to secure a toehold on the edge of a new world.

The owners of PedalShare, a bicycle-sharing company that operates in South­ampton Village, Westhampton Beach, and Quogue, has plans to launch the program in East Hampton Village in the spring.

During the presentation, which also included data on the former Montauk landfill, one Springs resident insisted that the consultants were downplaying the danger of contaminated drinking water.

The Amagansett Chamber of Commerce has announced that East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue will collectively serve as grand marshal of this year’s Am O’Gansett Parade, which will happen at noon on March 14.     

Janet Dallio of Springs, a former nursing supervisor at Hackensack Medical Center in New Jersey, died of cardiovascular disease last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Harold McErlean, a Sag Harbor native and an ace mechanic, died last Thursday at a hospital in Florida after experiencing complications of pulmonary fibrosis.

Hendrik J. Kranenburg, a leader in the globalization of financial markets, died of a heart attack on Jan. 17 while hiking in Grenada. Mr. Kranenburg, who lived in Bridgehampton and New York City, was 64.