This weekend marks the opening of the Parrish Art Museum's Student Exhibition. Also on Saturday, there's a catapult workshop at the Children's Museum of the East End.

Reports of dead Canada geese in great numbers along the ocean beaches in the waning days of February have announced the arrival of what appears to be a wave of avian influenza here, posing a threat not only to wild birds and domestic poultry but also to pets that “go outside and eat or are exposed to sick or dead birds,” according to the Centers for Disease Control.