Here on the East End, there are more than half a dozen fireworks shows happening over the next 10 days, and more planned later in July and in August. Here's where to see them.

Before she was named to the Z.B.A., Jeanne Kane chaired the village’s historic preservation and architectural review board. “She’s familiar with the boards and working with the building department,” said the new mayor, Thomas Gardella. She will be sworn in on Monday, taking his unexpired seat on the village board.

Restoring the east inlet, which closed in 2007 after an April northeaster, would improve water quality and habitat for shellfish, finfish, and eelgrass. It would also reduce water flow through the west inlet, and, potentially, shoreline erosion north of Lazy Point and on Promised Land. It is “a project beyond the scope of what the trustees on their own could finance.”

This needlework sampler was stitched by Lucretia Fithian (1765-1815), probably between 1770 and 1780. Lucretia was one of nine children born to Capt. David Fithian (1723-1805) and Esther Conkling Fithian (1728-1800).

The Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor is once again hosting weekly sailing clinics for kids this summer, with sessions that started this week and continue through Labor Day. Plus there's fun for kids at local libraries and museums on tap this week.

This week Senior Chief Nathaniel J. O’Connell relieved Master Chief William B. Harris, who has served as Officer in Charge of Station Montauk for the past four years.

Hermann Wayd, an accomplished pastry chef who worked at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk in the 1960s before opening his own restaurant and bakery in that hamlet and later in East Hampton, died on June 17 in Burtonsville, Md. He was 83 and had been in declining health.

Elaine Lucille Evans, a career teacher who with her husband bought a house in Springs almost 60 years ago, died in her sleep at home in Brooklyn on June 17. She was 84.

A leading Abstract Expressionist painter whose output spanned seven decades, Connie Fox’s work is represented in the Guild Hall Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, and at major museums across the country, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Albright-Knox Gallery, now known as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. She died peacefully at home in East Hampton on June 19