Helen Anne Spanierman, who helped run the Spanierman Gallery on Newtown Lane in East Hampton for many years, died of respiratory distress on Saturday in Morristown, N.J. She was 89.

Her family was with her when Mary Margaret Struk Niggles died at home in Wainscott on July 6 after a long illness. She was 91.

Sally Matson Edwards died on Monday at home on Hook Pond Lane, East Hampton, a family residence for 70 years, less than a month shy of her 96th birthday.

Carol-Ann Morgan died on June 30 in East Hampton, with her children by her side. She was 81 and had been in declining health.

The Southampton Town Board is working to amend the town code to accommodate the possible arrival of cannabis dispensaries and on-site pot lounges in town. Turns out it’s a pretty contentious issue even after the town voted along with more than 600 other towns across the state to participate in New York’s newly legalized cannabis economy. 

Wyclef Jean will kick off this year's Calissa Sounds series on Friday at the Greek restaurant and lounge in Water Mill.

A multiuse path in the Buckskill Meadow Trunzo Preserve in Wainscott will be named to honor the late Lewis Zachary Cohen, a longtime member of East Hampton Town’s Nature Preserve Committee, during a ceremony on Monday at 11 a.m.

East Hampton Village has settled on a preferred location for a new underground wastewater treatment facility — under the long-term parking lot off Gingerbread Lane — but it could be years from completion, a consultant told the village board last week.