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The curtain rises Friday on Our Fabulous Variety Show's take on the classic "A Christmas Carol" story, starring a character called Jacob Marley McFly, lots of time-travel high jinks and ghosts of 1980s past, "and so much dancing," says one of its directors, Anita Boyer.

A new Barnes & Noble bookstore opens at noon on Friday, Dec. 1, in the Bridgehampton Commons.

A lineup of local rock-and-roll royalty will take the stage at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett on Wednesday in a benefit for Joe O’Haire, a Montauk photographer recovering from an Oct. 17 motorcycle accident involving an 18-wheeler in Texas that left him with numerous broken bones and a collapsed lung. 

If shopping for handmade, locally sourced gifts is your cup of tea, well, this is the right weekend for it. Artists and vendors will be selling their wares at open-house events, festivals, and craft fairs in hamlets and villages across the South Fork on Saturday and Sunday.

The Montauk School Board is looking for a resident of the school district to fill out the time remaining in Tom Flight's board term. Mr. Flight was elected this month to the East Hampton Town Board and will be sworn in by the town clerk in January. His school board term expires June 30, 2024.

This winter, Southampton Town is offering a still-water lifeguard certification course that can qualify a participant to serve at a bay beach and provide the basics needed to move on to an ocean lifeguarding program.

The holiday toy drive of the Sag Harbor Community Food Pantry has begun. New, unwrapped toys can be donated at the Long Wharf Windmill daily through Dec. 11 between noon and 5:30 p.m.

The holiday season arrives at the Montauk Lighthouse this weekend, starting on Saturday with the annual Lighting of the Light from 4:30 to 7 p.m.

The East Hampton Food Pantry's annual Harvest Food Drive will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn in front of the East Hampton Middle School.

Regional planning at the nexus of client interests and local zoning laws will be the topic Thursday night when a panel of architects gets together at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor at 7.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, once known as the East Hampton Daycare and Learning Center, wants to hear from its alumni and their parents for a special project: a now-and-then style "book of stories."

Michael Wootton, a resident of Wainscott, was the lucky winner of the Wainscott Sewing Society's pinwheel quilt raffle on Friday night, the organization announced Saturday.