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LongHouse Awards and Lunch

LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will host a Landscape Awards lunch on Saturday honoring Amy Goldman Fowler, Charles and Kathleen Marder, Lynden Miller, and Thomas Woltz.

Bits and Pieces: 09.19.19

A festival of short films, a salute to Toni Morrison, and a classical music concert.

The Art Scene: 09.19.19

A new generation of art critics sit down for a chat, Folioeast pops up at Ashawagh, a Paraskevas retrospective in Southampton, and more.

Full Lineup of Hamptons Festival Films Is Released

The Hamptons International Film Festival released its full schedule this week online and in a printed guide (available as an insert in this week's Star). Announcements about the program have been trickling out slowly, so some of this information may sound familiar, but it is worth repeating before individual tickets go on sale.

Playing in a Bathroom Near You

A young, naked woman with a cast on her left hand sits inside a bathtub filled with bubbles. This is a Guild Hall show but she isn’t onstage in the theater. She’s in a real, functioning bathroom inside an East Hampton house with the audience around her.

Woman Partially Thrown From Car in Rollover Crash

An alleged drunken driver lost control of his car, causing it to roll over in Wainscott on Monday night, injuring his two passengers, including a woman who was partially ejected.

Youth Court Seeks Students

With the start of the school year comes the start of a new session for Southampton Town’s Youth Court. The program is a way for high school students to earn community service credits and build their college résumé, while learning about the criminal justice system. High schoolers work together to hold real trials for juvenile offenders, and a jury decides on a sentence for the offender.

New Allies Push Wainscott Wind Cable Landing

Win With Wind, a group that formed in the spring to advocate for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm, and Montauk United, a group advocating for quality-of-life issues in that hamlet, have joined forces to support a Wainscott landing for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm’s export cable.

Sag Harbor Parish Named in Child Victims Act Suit

Sag Harbor’s St. Andrew parish is among about 170 parishes around the state named in a widespread sex abuse complaint brought by people who say they were abused, as children, by clergy at those parishes and in some cases their schools.

Sand Mine ‘Concerns Too Numerous to Ignore’

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has decided a proposal by an East Hampton mining company to expand a pit on Middle Highway will not have a significant negative impact on its surroundings, but the D.E.C. is still accepting public comments on the matter, through Sept. 27, before it formally decides on issuing a permit.

CVS Manager Accused in Shooting

A well-liked woman who has worked at the CVS pharmacy in East Hampton Village for 15 years was arrested last week after she shot her boyfriend in their Flanders home and then fled, leading to a statewide Amber Alert for their 3-year-old daughter.

Legion Honors Striking History of Service

To mark this year’s 100th anniversary of the American Legion, members of Sag Harbor’s Chelberg and Battle Post 388 have created a remembrance journal to honor the service of village veterans. The book will be presented to members at a dinner celebrating the centennial on Tuesday, and then made available to the public.

#&@$*! Those Lighted Crosswalks

The road to hell, the adage goes, is paved with good intentions, but the three lighted crosswalks installed on Montauk’s Main Street earlier this year have created hellish conditions for motorists and pedestrians alike, the hamlet’s residents told the East Hampton Town Board on Tuesday.

One ‘Giant Step’ for Renewable Energy

The first of two forums on community choice aggregation, a model that replaces the utility as the default supplier of electricity or natural gas and gives municipalities the opportunity to seek lower prices from alternative suppliers, was held on Tuesday evening at East Hampton Town Hall.

An Electric Runabout Plugs Sustainability

One may not need a sleek, luxurious lake runabout to attract attention to energy sustainability programs, but it certainly seemed to help on Saturday, when members of Southampton Town’s sustainability committee signed up residents for free home energy audits and solar evaluations at Sag Harbor’s annual Harborfest event.

Suffolk to Ban Balloon Releases

The efforts of Susan McGraw Keber of the East Hampton Town Trustees to persuade the Suffolk County Legislature to enact a ban on the intentional release of balloons paid off on Sept. 4, when that body voted unanimously to do so.

Offshore Wind Open House

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority will host an open house to discuss the state’s efforts to advance offshore wind on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Southampton High School.

Suffolk Majority Leader Backs Goroff for Congress

Legislator Kara Hahn, the majority leader of the Suffolk County Legislature, has endorsed Nancy Goroff in her bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District next year.

Schultz Abandons Presidential Bid

Howard Schultz, the former chairman and chief executive of the Starbucks chain and a part-time resident of East Hampton Village, has abandoned his independent campaign for president.

For Gershon, 10 ‘Town Halls’

Perry Gershon, who seeks the Democratic Party’s nomination to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District next year, has announced a series of events called the “Restore American Values Tour: 10 Town Halls in 10 Months.”