Beethoven's "Fidelio" from The Met, comedy at Bay Street, classical recital on Shelter Island, Shinnecock storytelling, saving Penn Station, music at the Masonic Temple.

St. Patrick's Day specials at Rowdy Hall, a prix fixe menu at Il Buco al Mare, and summer C.S.A. sign-ups for Quail Hill Farm.

Brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach that burned more than 600 acres were likely sparked by a fire that spread from a house in Manorville where people were making s'mores on Saturday afternoon, Suffolk County police said. Some 90 agencies responded, including fire departments from the South Fork.

Donnelly McGovern, the boys varsity soccer coach, and Tom Lambert and Chris Schneider, school security guards, stepped up to help when a high school student experienced a medical emergency in the gym in January. “They are simply heroes,” Adam Fine, superintendent of the East Hampton School District, said.