Devon Leaver, a daughter of Suzanne and Brian Leaver of Amagansett, and Xavier De Cardenas, the son of Evangeline and Frank De Cardenas of Roselle, N.J., were married on Nov. 9 at Montauk Downs. The Rev. Joe Iadanza officiated.

The Sag Harbor School Board on Monday officially approved a Latin honors system to replace the current practice of ranking students, adopting a policy that is to begin next school year with the graduating class of 2026. The vote was 6-0 with one board member, Alex Kriegsman, abstaining.

Springs School is full of talent, and Lucy Fagerland is one example of that.

The Friday Preteen Project returns tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. through Project Most. Plus: a Wiffle ball tournament, Origami Club, kids' movies, board games, and anime.

As Thanksgiving approaches, many of us are digging out favorite holiday recipes or looking for something new to try. The Ladies Village Improvement Society has published cookbooks as a fund-raiser since the group’s founding in 1896, and the society’s 1908 “Cook Book” has some great holiday classics.

A Three Mile Harbor Drive resident reported an online dating scam on the afternoon of Nov. 16. Somehow, said the 80-year-old man, a person on the dating platform had gotten his phone number and demanded $2,000 from him, threatening to tell his family he was using the site if he did not comply. Police told the man to block the number.

A 2-year-old was taken to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on State Route 27 near Upland Road in Montauk.

At a West Lake Drive house in Montauk on Oct. 28, East Hampton Town police arrested a local man on a charge of violating an order of protection, a class-E felony.

Residents of Sag Harbor knew Anthony Brandt as the chairman of its Board of Historic Preservation and Architectural Review, one of the regulatory boards charged with maintaining the authenticity and character of houses and other buildings in the village. A formidable advocate for preservation, he served in the role for seven years beginning in 1986, five years after he first moved to the village, and again from 2016 to 2019.

Despite a lifetime of health challenges, Diana Lee Foster, known as Lee to family and friends, maintained a positive outlook. The Montauk native died of pneumonia last Thursday at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead.

Christian Gutierrez “lived his entire 21 years in the most wonderful way,” his family wrote. “He never held back from doing what he loved — spending time with family, cherishing his friends, and riding his motorcycle.” Mr. Gutierrez, an East Hampton High School graduate who grew up in Springs, died in a motorcycle accident in Riverhead on Oct. 6.

Frances Morey knew how to keep busy, and she did so into her 90s. She died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 13.

James Kelly of East Hampton and Tarpon Springs, Fla., a retired General Foods executive, sports enthusiast, and proud Irish-American, died at home in East Hampton on Nov. 2. He was 87 and had cancer for the last two years.

Christina David Hupalowsky loved gardening, swimming, birding, and boating in her favorite place, Gardiner’s Bay, her husband, Thomas Hupalowsky, wrote. She died of lung cancer on Oct. 1 in Venice, Fla., at the age of 66.

This month’s column is all about mysteries, one of my favorite book genres. I love the suspenseful race of trying to figure out whodunit or what happened before the characters do. I love jaw dropping plot twists. 

An 1899 experiment in road-making, a 1924 claim relating to death of an officer shot while pursuing an alleged bootlegger’s car, and, in 1949, Grace Phelan, renowned speed typist and former holder of the World’s Amateur Typing Championship, was to demonstrate her extraordinary typing.

For a vast majority of anglers, the fishing season has come to an end, as persistent cold winds out of the north have taken a firm hold. But the bass fishing has been great off the ocean beaches and the blackfish action has been excellent.

Dave Conlon, who will take over as East Hampton High’s varsity boys basketball coach, saw D-1 collegiate and professional competition in Europe and had a stint as an assistant coach at the former University of the Sciences in Philadelphia.

Cristian Candemir, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who's been angling for the unofficial title of “World’s Strongest Barista,” was back in action recently to take a shot at lifting a replica of Iceland’s 410-pound Husafell stone. It's an ancient tradition dating to the time of the Vikings.

Piggybacking on a law passed in the spring, the East Hampton Village Board passed another on Friday prohibiting nightclubs, “or similar entertainment establishments,” in the historic preservation district. In so doing, the board updated the village’s zoning code to place nightclubs alongside “garbage disposal plants and junkyards” as the only specific business enterprises outlawed anywhere in the village.