More than 56 years after he first wrote for this newspaper, Jack Graves will be inducted into the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame by the Press Club of Long Island at an awards banquet in Woodbury.

A proposed traffic circle at the intersection of Long Lane, Stephen Hand’s Path, and Two Holes of Water Road in East Hampton is a road sign of sorts pointing at the unintended effects of growth. 

Cerberus, my 1979 sloop, remains where I left it in October, at a marina on the Connecticut River. The plan is to get it back into the water soon.

“I’m happy . . . I know it may not be politically correct these days to say so, but, yes, happy, I confess.”

Varied, various, and voluminous, it’s The Star’s weekly outlay of reader comment.

A corpse, well advanced in its decomposition, mysteriously washed up off Gardiner’s Island in 1899. And more ghastly stories ripped from the pages of Ye Olde Star.