The plans to install the pole will not be revisited until all parties can agree on a new riser pole design and location, according to a PSEG Long Island spokeswoman.

Across Long Island and New England, enslaved Black people were present from the beginnings of the colony. Here, they toiled alongside their enslavers, without the right to control their fate, but helping to secure a toehold on the edge of a new world.

The owners of PedalShare, a bicycle-sharing company that operates in South­ampton Village, Westhampton Beach, and Quogue, has plans to launch the program in East Hampton Village in the spring.

The Amagansett Chamber of Commerce has announced that East Hampton Volunteer Ocean Rescue will collectively serve as grand marshal of this year’s Am O’Gansett Parade, which will happen at noon on March 14.     

Harold McErlean, a Sag Harbor native and an ace mechanic, died last Thursday at a hospital in Florida after experiencing complications of pulmonary fibrosis.

Hendrik J. Kranenburg, a leader in the globalization of financial markets, died of a heart attack on Jan. 17 while hiking in Grenada. Mr. Kranenburg, who lived in Bridgehampton and New York City, was 64. 

Claudine Helene Michel of East Hampton was a talented sketch artist who would often draw portraits for friends and family “or render beautiful East End landscapes as a hobby."