Last year about this time Sas Peters came into the Star office with an Ultimate disc medal around his neck that appeared to be gold in the office light, but was in fact silver. This year it was indisputably gold.

East Hampton High School’s 200-yard freestyle relay team of Jane Brierley, Darcy McFarland, Julia Brierley, and Sophia Swanson qualified for the state meet by placing second to Northport-Commack’s team in Saturday’s county meet by two seconds.

A top shootist competes in San Antonio, the Pierson girls and Shelter Island boys will join the Bonac girls team at the state cross-country meet Saturday, plus a report on the Dock Race in Montauk.

Saturday brings the state cross-country meet in Plattsburgh (and the Bonac girls' first trip as a team), as well as the Pierson girls volleyball team's game for the Long Island Class C championship.

The bluebird has rebounded in East Hampton remarkably since 1985, when local groups and individuals began to work together to bring it back.

When it comes to fishing, I’ve always been a believer in beginner’s luck. But only up to a certain point.

Ralph Gibson was 17 when he enlisted in the Navy after dropping out of high school. After qualifying for training as a photographer’s mate, he flunked out of photography school. Sixty-two years later, his photography earned him France’s highest order of merit, Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor.

“Every once in a while we jump right into the heavy, but this year we thought, let’s bring some comedy,” said Minerva Perez, the executive director of Organizacion Latino-Americana (OLA) of Eastern Long Island, which organizes the Latino Film Festival of the Hamptons.

For the Rising Stars Piano Series on Saturday, Kara Huber, a Canadian-American concert artist, performed a program confirming her international renown for a flair for contemporary music. The mostly American program was in some ways a bit lighter than the typical piano recital, but no less substantial.

The Southampton Arts Center will launch two exhibitions devoted to printmaking with an open portfolio session, a print press demonstration, a panel discussion, and a public reception.

There are two books about cooking that have been published recently, one with deep, deep roots in the community and one more along the lines of celebrity chef autobiography with recipes.

This recipe comes from the Bridgehampton Inn and Restaurant’s “Look and Cook Book.”

Thanksgiving at home courtesy of Carissa, drawing and drink at Townline, a wine class, and new specials.

Generous, encouraging, and nothing if not thorough, “Pity the Reader” is a kind of fiction writer’s chapbook, using the great satirist’s comments as a jumping-off point to address the budding writer’s most basic concerns.

On the 60th anniversary of the play’s first production on Broadway, Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” will open at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor Thursday evening and continue public performances through Dec. 1.

De Niro in the city, a studio visit, Cold War architecture, a new group show at Sara Nightingale, and more.

In Process at Watermill Center on Saturday, a screening of the play "Hansard" now running in London at Guild Hall, 60s pop at the library, and more.

The Retreat, a domestic violence shelter and support and prevention program headquartered in East Hampton, has received a $450,000 federal grant, Representative Lee Zeldin recently announced.

The National Transportation Safety Board faults Ben and Bonnie Krupinski's pilot, Jon Dollard, for the plane crash that killed him, the Krupinskis, and their 22-year-old grandson off Amagansett in June of 2018.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 550 is organizing the East Hampton event, which begins at 10 a.m., and has invited all veterans or active-duty military members to march from London Jewelers on Main Street to the monument on the Hook Mill green, a short walk that will conclude with a brief ceremony at the monument.