With her company, Master Grief, Toni Filipone seeks to change the perception of grief and train counselors to help others. “The five stages of grief are for people who are dying — not for the living,” she said.

When dealing with the unpredictability of the ocean, a systematic, disciplined approach to identifying and mitigating risk is a good place to start, Jonathan Joseph, a retired Marine Corps officer, said at a safety session hosted by Surfrider Eastern Long Island.

Some Sag Harbor residents could find themselves having to purchase nonresident beach parking passes if a proposed amendment to the Southampton Town code passes. The passes would cost $500.

Forecasts are calling for windy and chilly conditions this weekend, but with the notable exception of the fireworks display Saturday, the Sag Harbor Chamber of Commerce’s Harborfrost festivities are mostly set to proceed as planned.

Hamptons Community Outreach, which works to lift people out of poverty and reduce human suffering by meeting basic and critical needs, will hold its third annual fund-raiser on Saturday from 5 to 7 p.m. at 230 Elm in Southampton Village.

A much-photographed house on stilts that was surrounded by water since around 2004 fell into Gardiner’s Bay last weekend when the pilings holding the abandoned house, perched off the end of Mulford Lane on Napeague, snapped. On Friday, it slipped further into the frozen water.

At the Hook Mill, a defiant mood mixed with resolve to join together in resistance to the Trump administration’s increasingly authoritarian actions.

The 1832 to 1849 portion of this account book records Patrick Talmage Gould’s daily life as a Montauk Lighthouse minder.

From the dull to the amusing to the consequential, passages ripped from our past pages.

We may be in the middle of a snowy, icy February, but leaf blowers are the hot issue.

The score didn’t tell the full story of the Sink Pink game at East Hampton High School — though congratulations to Pierson on the dominant 48-19 win. This game was all about two local girls basketball teams coming together in the fight against cancer.

The Bonac boys swim team managed to glide into third in the League II swim championships, even though they had a disqualification in the 200-yard medley relay when the backstroke went past 15 meters under water off the start.

Bonac’s boys and girls track teams competed at the small schools championship meets last weekend. The girls set five personal records and broke the school record in the 55-meter high hurdles. The boys won the 4-by-800 meter relay and nearly broke the school record.

The Bonackers lost five of their last six matchups to end the regular season, but Bronco Campsey continued his winning ways, notching his 115th. Next up, the League V championships at West Islip on Saturday.

The Bonac boys basketball team is playoff bound after a thrilling 72-67 victory over Westhampton Beach in overtime on Monday. The game capped an intense finish to the season, highlighted by scrappy home wins over Comsewogue and Hauppauge.

Real estate moves from across the South Fork as reported in November and December.

It may be snowy February, but people are starting to notice an East Hampton Village plan to extend its daytime ban on pets and vehicles on the beach to Columbus Day.

Precious minutes can be lost if a house is aflame and firefighters have to scramble to find hydrants and then dig them out as the flames rise.

Fallen houses have always drawn crowds.

Dr. Russell Hurlburt’s tests reveal that about 30 to 50 percent of people regularly talk to themselves silently.