The Little Mermen, a Disney tribute band, will perform hits from favorite films like “Frozen,” “The Lion King,” “Encanto,” and, of course, “The Little Mermaid” on Aug. 6 at 4:30 at Guild Hall.

A fire that burned a scar the size of a football field into the woods on the north side of the railroad tracks on Napeague on July 16, temporarily closing the road and halting train service, could have been much worse, Chris Beckert, the chief of the Amagansett Fire Department, said this week.

In September, the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center will officially accept its first group of infants between 12 and 18 months — a longtime aspiration of the center’s board, and its namesake.

Jess Garay, an avid thrifter, is “always hunting for a treasure” when shopping for vintage clothing. But earlier this month in Amagansett, she found one she is sure she will never be able to top: a jersey that had belonged to her late cousin, who died at 24.

People who attend the Montauk Playhouse’s Senior Nutrition Program are in an uproar over the recent resignation of its executive director, Anna Ostroff, and angrily let the program’s board of directors know it during a combative meeting on Tuesday.

The Springs School District and its superintendent are the targets of a wrongful-termination lawsuit filed by a former administrator who claims she was fired for refusing to carry out tasks she found unethical and harmful to students.

“What we’re trying to do here is convert,” said Biddle Duke, the moderator at a ChangeHampton panel discussion called “How to Move the Eco-Needle on Our Lands.”

The rally coincided with the fifth anniversary of the death of John Lewis, a United States representative from Georgia and an icon of the civil rights movement, and was the latest in a series of protests against the Trump administration organized by People for Democracy East Hampton.

The Ellen Hermanson Foundation will host its 30th Summer Gala on Saturday from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club.

Cindy and Joe Realmuto have “been an instrumental component of Project Most since its inception,” its executive director, Rebecca Taylor, said. They will be celebrated at a summer benefit on Sunday at Moby’s in East Hampton.

The seventh annual Hamptons Dog Show is on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett, with the East Hampton Lions Club hosting this fund-raiser for the Guide Dog Foundation of Long Island.

The 300th anniversary of Miss Amelia’s Cottage, on Main Street in Amagansett, will be celebrated on its grounds on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. Food, drinks, and music will be offered, and the 1850 Lester Barn will be open.

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to spend $10 million in community preservation fund money to acquire a conservation easement over approximately 5.5 acres of vacant land along the shore of Georgica Cove, at 41 and 47 Cove Hollow Farm Road in East Hampton Village.

Six account books dating to as early as 1794 were discovered in a barn here. They not only document transactions for merchandise such as calico, schoolbooks, and maize, they offer a glimpse into life in early East Hampton.

Paul Libin, one of the most influential and successful producers in Broadway history and a Springs homeowner for about 60 years, died on June 28 in a Manhattan hospital at the age of 94.

Patricia Peterson, a pioneering fashion editor for The New York Times who became a vice president at the department store Henri Bendel, died at home in Manhattan on June 15. She was 99 and lived part time in Amagansett.

Edward L. Schiff, an eminent authority on real estate law, died of heart failure on July 4 in New York City. A summer resident of Montauk for more than 40 years, he was 96.

A caller reported three youths lying “in the middle of Suffolk Street,” next to a black S.U.V., at around 3 in the morning on July 14 in Sag Harbor. The three told police they were waiting for a friend and were out on the street because their vehicle had no air-conditioning.

Toyotas were on a tear this week, with four accidents on local roads resulting in injuries.

East Hampton Town police made three late-night arrests last week, all of them ending in felony charges, from assault to forgery to drug possession.