Community News, May 9

Bay Street Theater & Sag Harbor Center for the Arts recently hosted aold-out event featuring Julie Andrews and her co-author and daughter (as well as Bay Street Theater's co-founder) Emma Walton Hamilton to celebrate of the release of their latest collaborative book "Waiting in the Wings." The event included a moderated discussion hosted by Tracy Mitchell, Bay Street Theater's executive director, left. COURTESY BAY STREET THEATER

Last Tuesday, Maya Leathers, second from right, committed to Marymount Manhattan College — where she will be majoring in dance with a concentration in media or child development — while at her weekly advanced tap class at Our Fabulous Variety Show in East Hampton. Leathers, an East Hampton resident who has been studying ballet and other forms of dance since she was a small child, was joined by her father, Chris Leathers, her mother, Jennifer Van Arsdale and her sister, Zoe. COURTESY ANITA BOYER

The Brown Harris Stevens 2018 Women's Whaleboat champions, from left, Cynthia Barrett, Kim Kakerbeck. Jane Holden, Jane Babcock and Clare Tenkarian with their award at the Save the Whale Boats Fundraiser at Baron's Cove in Sag Harbor on April 2. DANA SHAW

Gavin Menu with Ray Pettigrew of Team Whalers which has won the Whalers Cup nineteen times at the The Save the Whale boats Fundraiser at Baron's Cove in Sag Harbor on April 2. DANA SHAW

Barbara Bedell and Mella Burke take a walk on the Dark Side at the Town of Southampton Youth Bureau’s Youth Advisory Committee's May the 4th pancake breakfast to raise money for future community service projects on Saturday at the Hampton Bays Community Center. DANA SHAW

Young Ewok Jayelle Dulpon keeps an eye on Darth Vader and the Stormtroopers at the Town of Southampton Youth Bureau’s Youth Advisory Committee's May the 4th pancake breakfast to raise money for future community service projects on Saturday at the Hampton Bays Community Center. DANA SHAW

Local bakers brought their best cup cakes to Scoville Hall in Amagansett on Sunday, to compete in South Fork Bakery's "2nd Annual East End Bake-Off: Competition With a Cause". The competition celebrated the Bakery's 8th birthday, and was organized by Executive Director Stephen Hamilton and Program Director Shirley Ruch. Competition winners were Loaves & Fishes for the People's Choice Award and Gluten-Free Groove Bakery won First Place in the Birthday Cup Cake Cook-Off. Dale Leavay, above, from Gluten-Free Groove Bakery. RICHARD LEWIN

Local bakers brought their best cup cakes to Scoville Hall in Amagansett on Sunday, to compete in South Fork Bakery's "2nd Annual East End Bake-Off: Competition With a Cause". The competition celebrated the Bakery's 8th birthday, and was organized by Executive Director Stephen Hamilton and Program Director Shirley Ruch. Competition winners were Loaves & Fishes for the People's Choice Award and Gluten-Free Groove Bakery won First Place in the Birthday Cup Cake Cook-Off. Above, Karina Forrest from Loaves & Fishes. RICHARD LEWIN

Local bakers brought their best cup cakes to Scoville Hall in Amagansett on Sunday, to compete in South Fork Bakery's "2nd Annual East End Bake-Off: Competition With a Cause". The competition celebrated the Bakery's 8th birthday, and was organized by Executive Director Stephen Hamilton and Program Director Shirley Ruch. Competition winners were Loaves & Fishes for the People's Choice Award and Gluten-Free Groove Bakery won First Place in the Birthday Cup Cake Cook-Off. Above, Executive Director Stephen Hamilton with Program Director and former Executive Director Shirley Ruch with her granddaughter Eloise Miller. RICHARD LEWIN

Leslie Samuel and Julianne Moseley at East Hampton's Main Beach early on Sunday morning, to prepare for the start of the annual May Day 5K Run, this year benefiting The Tyler Project (tylerproject.org). Over 900 people signed up for the Run, founded in 2021 by East Hampton High School runners Ryleigh O'Donnell and Dylan Cashin, to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Month. East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, Village Administrator Marcos Baladron, Jennifer Fowkes of the Old Montauk Athletic Club and Bradford Billet of the East Hampton Village Foundation provided support for the Run. RICHARD LEWIN

Neda von Suesskind, Guy von Davis and Polina Kutaeva at East Hampton's Main Beach early on Sunday morning, to prepare for the start of the annual May Day 5K Run, this year benefiting The Tyler Project (tylerproject.org). Over 900 people signed up for the Run, founded in 2021 by East Hampton High School runners Ryleigh O'Donnell and Dylan Cashin, to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Month. East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, Village Administrator Marcos Baladron, Jennifer Fowkes of the Old Montauk Athletic Club and Bradford Billet of the East Hampton Village Foundation provided support for the Run. RICHARD LEWIN

Ana Julia Garcia and Joshua Vargas at East Hampton's Main Beach early on Sunday morning, to prepare for the start of the annual May Day 5K Run, this year benefiting The Tyler Project (tylerproject.org). Over 900 people signed up for the Run, founded in 2021 by East Hampton High School runners Ryleigh O'Donnell and Dylan Cashin, to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Month. East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen, Village Administrator Marcos Baladron, Jennifer Fowkes of the Old Montauk Athletic Club and Bradford Billet of the East Hampton Village Foundation provided support for the Run. RICHARD LEWIN

Maryanne Horwath at the Parrish Art Museum's annual Spring Fling benefit on Saturday in Water Mill. LISA TAMBURINI

Meredith Shumway and Erica DeJong at the Parrish Art Museum's annual Spring Fling benefit on Saturday in Water Mill. LISA TAMBURINI

Todd White, Alexandra Stanton and Cameron Carani

Todd White, Alexandra Stanton and Cameron Carani at the Parrish Art Museum's annual Spring Fling benefit on Saturday in Water Mill. LISA TAMBURINI

Maryanne Horwath at the Parrish Art Museum's annual Spring Fling benefit on Saturday in Water Mill. LISA TAMBURINI

Hampton Bays Middle School students visited Express News Group offices on May 3 as part of their News Literacy elective class. Students learned about the importance of local journalism and verifying information. Joe Shaw, the Executive Editor, took the students on a tour of the facility and led a discussion on the role of news reporting in modern society, with several members of the staff facilitating conversation with the students. Students were also given a newsroom simulation activity, where they edited their own op-ed articles, selected artwork to accompany their articles, and worked in the production department to layout their own version of The Southampton Press. The start-to-finish process gave students insight into the real-life decision making that goes into working for a newspaper. DANA SHAW

Hampton Bays Middle School students visited Express News Group offices on May 3 as part of their News Literacy elective class. Students learned about the importance of local journalism and verifying information. Joe Shaw, the Executive Editor, took the students on a tour of the facility and led a discussion on the role of news reporting in modern society, with several members of the staff facilitating conversation with the students. Students were also given a newsroom simulation activity, where they edited their own op-ed articles, selected artwork to accompany their articles, and worked in the production department to layout their own version of The Southampton Press. The start-to-finish process gave students insight into the real-life decision making that goes into working for a newspaper. DANA SHAW

The 2023 Women's Whaleboat champions from John K. Ott Cesspool Service, from left, Shawn Mitchell, Robyn Mott, Shelly Cottrell and Karin Schroeder with their award at the Save the Whale Boats Fundraiser at Baron's Cove in Sag Harbor on April 2. DANA SHAW