People seeking Covid-19 vaccines have two new upcoming opportunities at East Hampton Town Hall: on Monday and Wednesday. Appointments for clinics later in the month are already spoken for.

For a Hanukkah sweet, we propose a homemade donut that touches on two traditions: beloved jelly-stuffed sufganiyot and the homespun crullers fried up in East Hampton kitchens since colonial days. Here, a recipe — and advice for fearful friers — adapted from an ORIGINAL column by Florence Fabricant published in The Star in 1975.

As we look forward to being spirited away for the holidays, we might opt to skip the alcohol in our cocktails while we celebrate. Shaken or stirred, an aromatic mocktail will stimulate the senses with seasonal ingredients.

The 847 participants in the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s 3 and 6-mile races around Montauk’s Fort Pond on Thanksgiving Day constituted a record. That was the good news.