South O' the Highway (and the North too)

Sag Harbor's favorite piano man, Billy Joel, is penning his memoirs. HarperCollins paid "a healthy advance" somewhere in the $3 million range for publication rights. No release date has been set.

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Hamptons resident Joy Behar's new solo show premiered last week. Her first guest was Bette Midler, and upcoming guests include Bill Maher, Larry David, Michael Moore and Arianna Huffington. "The Joy Behar Show" airs on HLN at 9 p.m.

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Congratulations, Barbara Walters! The iconic journalist and Hamptons resident recently received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmy Awards at New York City's Lincoln Center.

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When Michelle Stevens, a Bridgehampton Post Office employee, accidentally drove off with her wallet on the roof of her car, she worried she'd never see it again. But Cindy Nicholson and Robert Walton, good Samaritans from Springs, found and returned the wallet-and $2,400 in cash, that Stevens had just withdrawn for medical bills.

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State Senator Ken LaValle recently announced that the East End Health Alliance will receive nearly $13 million in grant money under the state's Health Care Efficiency and Affordability Law. The funding will help the Alliance create a clinical laboratory that will serve Southampton Hospital, Peconic Bay Medical Center and Eastern Long Island Hospital, and their affiliated medical staffs and nursing homes.

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Prominent artists are donating works to Chris Norwood's "See the Children through the Trees," an exhibition and auction benefiting AIDS orphans and parentless kids through the work of Health People, which Norwood, a Sag Harbor resident, founded. Participating artists include Ross Bleckner, April Gornik, Milton Glaser, Garry Trudeau, Walter Channing, Edwina Sandys, Jean Holabird, Steve Miller, Larry B. Wright, Michael Knigin, Cuca Romley, Joan Kraisky, Steve Maciw, Neke Carson, Christophe von Hohenberg, Suzanne Anker, Nick Patten, David Prentice, Michelle D'Oyley, Elizabeth Meyer, Cheryl Warwick, Susan Shatter, Steve Hudak, Alan Turner, Susan Hall, Bill Ciccariello, Matthew Hamblem, Carolina von Humboldt and Charles Yoder. The exhibit can be seen daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Conde Nast Building in Times Square. Silent auction bids will be accepted until Thursday, October 15.

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