It’s showtime this weekend at East Hampton High School. “Footloose,” the dance-centric musical based on the 1984 film of the same name, will be staged in the high school auditorium, with performances open to the public.

A new semester of performing arts classes with Our Fabulous Variety Show, puppetry at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and adventures with the South Fork Natural History Museum are on tap for kids and teens in the coming week.

A tiny chapel now used as a fitness center at the East Hampton Point resort occupied an important place for three interrelated East Hampton communities — Indigenous, Black, and white — from the late 1800s until the 20th century. In this, it is one of the rare functionally integrated houses of worship on Long Island — and rarer still that the building endures.

For most people, the news out of Ukraine is horrible, but it’s just news. However, there are plenty of local residents who have direct ties to the beleaguered nation, people who are watching the slow-motion, 40-mile-long convoy of future death tear a hole through a country that their mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers still live in.