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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.

Events in East Hampton and Montauk will mark Veterans Day on Saturday. 

Judy Sleed of East Hampton, a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor and host of "The Play Is the Thing," an LTV show, tells her story publicly for the first time in "I Am Judit."

Poets, writers, songwriters, storytellers, and comedians are invited to an open mic on Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the South Fork on the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike.

"No slammin', just jammin'," is the word. The event is for adults, teens, and children 9 and up.

If you can't make it in person, a Zoom link is available at uucsf.info/openmic.

LTV, East Hampton's public-access television station, has announced a special slate of programming Tuesday night to highlight "the historical importance of our elections."

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold the first of two trap-neuter-return clinics for feral cats on Thursday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the center on Daniel's Hole Road in Wainscott, "promoting the well-being of feral cats and reducing their overpopulation."