It’s been a long, lousy month since Danny Murray of the Fairway restaurant passed away.

Norman Abell of Amagansett, a former senior partner at Huber, Lawrence & Abell, a New York City law firm, died of thyroid cancer on Sunday. He was 95.

Stephen Grossman, a lawyer whose firm had an office in Sag Harbor for decades, died on Jan. 14 at NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan of complications of lung cancer. He was 83.

Behold the new real estate report, South Fork edition.

Southampton Town police charged a Bay Shore woman with two felonies last Thursday, saying, first, that she’d left the scene of an accident on Sagg Main Street in Sagaponack, and second, after being located, was discovered to be in possession of “a “quantity of illegal drugs and paraphernalia.” 

Paid Notice: Joe, who recently moved to Tampa, Florida, passed away at a hospice facility in Palm Harbor on January 6. Joe was 74 years old. Joe, who was known to his family and friends as Bubba, grew up in Brentwood, Long Island before moving to Amagansett around 1970, following a number of friends who were into the surfing culture at the time.

Betsy Kenyon woke up at dawn on her 59th birthday two days after Christmas and decided to commemorate it with a 25.8-mile beach walk from Flying Point in Water Mill, where she lives part time, to Montauk.

The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees followed up a 4-point win at Greenport in December with a 71-37 blowout Friday in the Beehive. Plus Bonac swimming, track, and wrestling updates.

Dzmitry Daniliuk, the Buckskill Winter Club’s personable 30-year-old Belarus-born hockey coach, began playing the sport in Minsk at the age of 6, soon after fleeing a ballet class in which his mother had enrolled him.

Basketball and bowling on tap in the week ahead.

Susan Stroman, a multiple award-winning director and choreographer, has been named president of Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts, an assemblage of some 250 internationally recognized artists.

Hamptons Pride and Bay Street Theater have teamed up for the Hamptons Pride Film Series, which will launch with "Pride," a 2014 British historical comedy-drama.

The frigid winter weather brings out prix fixe menus and other special offerings from the 1770 House, Cittanuova, Il Buco al Mare, Bell and Anchor, and La Fondita.

"Folkie Fest: East Meets West" will bring five East End singer-songwriters working in the folk and country traditions to LTV Studios.

In connection with its current exhibition "Some Odes," The Church will host a read-in of poetry by Sharon Olds, Denis Johnson, and Paul Auster.

"Aida" from the Met at Guild Hall, poetry and music at St. Ann's Episcopal Church in Bridgehampton, book launch party at Ma's House on the Shinnecock Reservation.

"Springs Artists' Exhibition Posters" at Clinton Academy, Ralph Gibson gallery tour at the Parrish, Philippe Cheng butterfly photographs to benefit local nonprofit.

Fans of village beaches, mark your calendars. The village’s in-person sale of nonresident beach parking permits to East Hampton Town residents who live outside village boundaries will take place on Jan. 28 at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street. The sale will begin at 9 a.m. and continue through 6 p.m. 

St. Luke’s Episcopal Church will host an interfaith service celebrating the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with prayers and music on Sunday at 4 p.m. People who want to sing with the choir can join in rehearsals before the service.

Compromise proved elusive again for the Paramount Development Group and the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board on Dec. 12, a month after the A.R.B.’s unanimous denial of Paramount’s application to build a residence at 84 Wainscott Hollow Road in Wainscott. Despite some changes to the plans, the board again denied the application to build a 7,374-square-foot house in place of the one there now.