Four Doc Fest films make Oscars Shortlist, Martha Stotsky named Parrish education director, rock and jazz at the Masonic Temple

A special New Year's Eve menu at Wolffer Kitchen, weekday happy hours at Sag Pizza, cider sake from Wolffer Estate Vineyard, and online farm stand offerings from Sylvester Manor.

Confused by the New Jersey return address on the envelope accompanying your 2023 East Hampton Town property tax bill? You're not alone.

The confluence of Covid, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (R.S.V.) is causing people to break out their masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant just ahead of the holidays. “And we’re just at the beginning of what is typically the season for upper respiratory illnesses,” said Dr. Fredric Weinbaum, chief medical officer at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Following a rippling cyberattack on Suffolk County in September, the East Hampton Town Board announced Tuesday that it is fast-tracking upgrades to its own computer systems.

Cold and wind greeted the 45 participants of the 93rd Montauk Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, but the rough conditions didn’t stop them from tallying 131 different species, the highest total for the count in the last 10 years.

Pending approval from the D.E.C. to place a wastewater treatment plant under the long-term parking lot off Gingerbread Lane, the East Hampton Village Board heard a presentation on alternate locations including at the village's Department of Public Works property at 172 Accabonac Road, outside the village, and at 29 King Street, which is not owned by the village but is within its boundaries.

The East Hampton Town Board debated the merits of four design proposals from R2 Architecture for a new senior center in Amagansett, rejected two, and has asked the board to fine tune the other two — one with "windmill" layout, the other with a linear layout.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board did last week what it has taken nearly five years to do: agreed that the draft environmental impact statement for the Wainscott Commercial Center was complete. The vote closes a chapter in the saga of the 70.4-acre former sand mine, located just north of the Speedway Station in Wainscott, and opens another, as a public comment period has now begun.

If Norman Rockwell were alive today, his iconic Saturday Evening Post illustrations might star not Mother and Father with their children, but rather blended families featuring step-parents and step-siblings. “The so-called ‘blended family’ is no longer an aberration in American society: It’s a norm,” the American Psychological Association wrote in 2019. How, then, can blended families navigate holiday celebrations most smoothly? An expert from Sag Harbor weighs in.