"Couples Squared" at the Southampton Arts Center focuses on the interplay between creative partners.

We are in full-scale summer mode as August approaches. In Montauk stripers are still running, and the same is true for fluke and a plethora of undersize sea bass.

Coming up this weekend are the two-mile, one-mile, and half-mile ocean challenge swims at Kirk Park Beach benefiting the Montauk Playhouse, and Jordan’s Run, a 5K road race in Sag Harbor that commemorates Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter.

The Kraken pitched well, fielded well, and hit well in Sunday’s Hamptons Adult Hardball League’s championship series opener against the East End Ospreys at the Bridgehampton School.