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The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and the North Fork will mark National Voter Registration Day on Tuesday with voter information tables from Montauk to Westhampton Beach on the South Fork, as well as on Shelter Island and the North Fork.

While the facility makes repairs to its roof this week, the East Hampton Y.M.C.A. RECenter has announced limited pool access hours for its members and students.

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish new year, begins in the evening on Friday. Here are some of the services happening at local Jewish houses of worship.

Local volunteer fire departments will come together Monday evening in East Hampton to solemnly remember the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and Pentagon in Washington, D.C.

“Is there a moral response to the climate crisis?” That’s the question Terrence Keeley, the author of “Sustainable: Moving Beyond ESG to Impact Investing,” will ponder in a talk on Saturday at 4 p.m. at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. (E.S.G. refers to investing that takes into account the environment, social issues, and good corporate governing.) 

Calvary Baptist Church, the East Hampton Town Anti-Bias Task Force, and the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum will co-host a barbecue at the museum, which is on the corner of Cedar and North Main Streets, on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. The $20 entry fee gets attendees hot dogs, hamburgers, corn on the cob, and pie, or you can take a pie and get in for free. 

First responders will also be admitted for free, with or without pie. The barbecue will be held rain or shine.

Bring your appetite! The 11th annual Montauk Seafood Festival run by the Montauk Friends of Erin and the Kiwanis Club of East Hampton will take place on the downtown green on Saturday and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. There are over 15 restaurants and vendors participating, serving fish tacos, lobster rolls, tuna sliders, crab cakes, clams, oysters, sushi, hot dogs, burgers, French fries, and more. 

The Garden Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to saving and promoting outstanding American gardens, will host two self-guided tours on the South Fork on Saturday.

The day after Labor Day, affectionately known in resort communities like ours as Tumbleweed Tuesday, can be bittersweet: Summer is unofficially over, school's back in session, and it no longer takes a half-hour to drive five miles. On Tuesday, the East Hampton Village Foundation and the East Hampton Kiwanis Club will highlight the sweet during the final Tuesday night Main Beach concert of the season at 6.

Quail Hill Farm's Great Tomato Taste-Off returns on Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon following a hiatus.

The words "morning program" might appear dull but are warmly nostalgic for anyone who has sent their children through Sag Harbor Elementary in the last 30 years.

The Shinnecock Powwow will run from tomorrow through Monday at the nation's powwow grounds on West Church Street on the Shinnecock Reservation. One of the largest Native American gatherings on the East Coast, the powwow draws participants from all over the Americas for three and a half days of competitive and ceremonial dancing, music, entertainment, prayers, and food.

An upcoming real estate auction coordinated by the Suffolk County Division of Economic Development and Planning and planned for Oct. 12 lists a handful of properties in East Hampton and Southampton Towns as available for bidding.

A three-mile hike on Gerard Drive in Springs on Saturday organized by the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society and the East Hampton Historical Society will feature both the beauty and some of the history of Accabonac Harbor and Gardiner's Bay.

Here's what's coming up at the East Hampton Library.

East Hampton School District officials made a plea last week for people to follow the rules — all of them, even the ones that may seem trivial — when using the district's athletic fields and other outdoor facilities for recreation.

Main Beach will be the place to be on Saturday night when the East Hampton Fire Department hosts its annual fireworks show. The Sag Harbor Community Band will provide the music for the evening, starting at 7. Fireworks will be set off at dusk.

Our Fabulous Variety Show's first Kids Night Out is Friday, giving school-aged children a chance to have fun while parents and guardians "get a night off" themselves.

The Church, an arts center on Madison Street in Sag Harbor, will have a cocktail reception, chaired by Elisa Rojas Ross, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, to benefit Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island on Thursday night from 5 to 7.

It’s time for the South Fork Natural History Museum’s annual panel discussion and question-and-answer session with its Shark Research and Education Team.

Saturday is the East Hampton Library’s Author’s Night, but on Sunday, the kids get their turn with the library's annual Children’s Fair.

Saturday brings the Clamshell Foundation's 32nd annual Sandcastle Contest, a two-mile-plus walk at Lazy Point including a post-walk tour of the D’Amico Studio and Archives, and the Amagansett Village Improvement Society's annual Summer Splash party at the South Fork Country Club.

As more than 24,000 trees have been removed because of an infestation of Asian longhorned beetles, the United States Department of Agriculture is urging Long Island residents to check their trees for the insect.

It's time again for the Antigua Barbuda Hamptons Challenge Regatta, an amateur sailing race in Noyac Bay, and a day of Caribbean-themed fun in Sag Harbor, planned for Saturday.

The Hamptons Dog Show, hosted by the East Hampton Lions Club at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett, returns Saturday for its fifth year to raise money for the Guide Dog Foundation of Long Island.

Lighthouse Weekend will be celebrated at the Montauk Lighthouse on Saturday and Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., with re-enactors from the Third New York Regiment and the Kings of the Coast Pirates helping to bring the past to life.

After a four-year hiatus, Heart of Springs, a benefit for Ashawagh Hall, the Springs Library, and the Springs Presbyterian Church, will take place on Sunday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. under a tent on the lawn at Ashawagh Hall.

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone announced Thursday that this year’s Down Payment Assistance Program is now open for applications. The program allows first-time homebuyers $30,000 to purchase a single family home with the agreement that the buyer will live there for at least 10 years.

A “bracket bash” party is to be held Friday evening from 6 to 9 at the Clubhouse in Wainscott to work out a schedule for the double-elimination Travis Field memorial coed softball tournament that will be contested by 17 teams and is to begin Thursday afternoon at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett. 

Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that due to heat advisories announced for Thursday through Saturday, state parks will be extending the hours of swimming facilities throughout New York City, Long Island, and the Hudson Valley.