The East Hampton Town Board authorized an emergency appropriation of $30,000 to local food pantries, due to the continued shutdown of the federal government and the impending loss of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.

Fitzhugh Karol, whose work is on view at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs, moves with assurance from ceramic reliefs to iconic wooden totems to large-scale steel sculptures.

A busy weekend at The Church in Sag Harbor will include stargazing with the Vanderbilt Museum’s mobile planetarium, a writing workshop, and a “drawing happening.”

LTV Studios will host a Vampire Masquerade Thursday and Our Fabulous Variety Show’s Disco Ball fund-raiser on Saturday.