Eleanor Whitmore of Amagansett, a beloved community volunteer, Sunday school teacher, philanthropist, and education advocate, created “a legacy of an unwavering commitment to countless causes and people close to her heart,” her family wrote. “I don’t feel as if I’ve done anything so wonderful,” Mrs. Whitmore told The Star in a 2005 interview. “I do it because I love to, and I can’t say no.”

William Vassiles of East Hampton, a court stenographer, died on Nov. 3 at his apartment in New York City of complications from Alzheimer’s disease.

Evelyn Edwards Ludlow Tureski, a onetime member of the Bridgehampton School Board, died on Nov. 4 at home on Chester Avenue in Bridgehampton. The cause was heart failure. Mrs. Tureski, who had been ill for a year, was 94.

Jaki Jackson, a well-known yoga teacher who had led classes in and around East Hampton for nearly five decades, died at home in Springs on Oct. 22. She was 92.

Police got a call about “two subjects performing lewd acts in a white Nissan Rogue” at Main Beach last Thursday night. Officers found just one person in the car, a woman who said she’d been watching a movie on her phone.

Rowdy Hall opened in Amagansett on Tuesday night, its facade painted black in defiance of the East Hampton Town Architectural Review Board, which had turned down the business’s request for black paint last month. It is scheduled to answer for doing the work without approval in town justice court on Dec. 4.

The first time this happened, the community responded in force that same afternoon with a rally attended by hundreds at the downtown Montauk green. While there was no rally this time around, a group of Montauk School students and parents took matters into their own hands by painting over the hateful scrawlings by day’s end with a colorful mural.

The first time this happened, the community responded in force that same afternoon with a rally attended by hundreds at the downtown Montauk green. While there was no rally this time around, a group of Montauk School students and parents took matters into their own hands by painting over the hateful scrawlings by day’s end with a colorful mural.

“After 35 years here and 15 months off, it feels like where I belong,” said Dave Winthrop, who is back at Brent's General Store in Amagansett and ready to “make people feel like they’re coming to the old Brent’s.”

The Shinnecock Indian Nation’s official cannabis dispensary, Little Beach Harvest, is now open for business, just in time for the Indigenous harvest holiday known as Nunnowa, which the tribe celebrates each year on Nov. 16. “It’s a major achievement. This is something that Long Island is in need of,” said Chenae Bullock, the managing director of Little Beach Harvest, in describing the region’s first tax-free cannabis dispensary, located on the Shinnecock territory.

A proposed law in Sag Harbor would allow a village resident to remove any tree with a diameter at breast height of 18 inches or less, without a permit. But the audience was firmly against the 18-inch limit, instead pressing the village board to require a permit before trees more than 12 inches in diameter can be removed.

The Israel-Hamas war, now in its second month, continues to reverberate on the South Fork. For the second consecutive week, the Sunday afternoon gathering of East End for Ceasefire, an activist group calling for an end to hostilities, was met with a counterrally at their protest site, Long Wharf in Sag Harbor.

The Israel-Hamas war, now in its second month, continues to reverberate on the South Fork. For the second consecutive week, the Sunday afternoon gathering of East End for Ceasefire, an activist group calling for an end to hostilities, was met with a counterrally at their protest site, Long Wharf in Sag Harbor.

Following the recently retired judge Paul Baisley’s referral of Daniel Rodgers for disciplinary consideration to the Grievance Committee for the Tenth Judicial District — which Mr. Baisley made on the day of his retirement, Aug. 31 — Mr. Rodgers has filed suit, alleging “significant personal and professional harm.”

The East Hampton Food Pantry's annual Harvest Food Drive will take place Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the lawn in front of the East Hampton Middle School.

The plan was to head out on a 90-minute ride to Block Island for blackfish, sea bass, and codfish. When boats were able to get out in recent days, the action was good, especially for blackfish.

At the 3.3-mile Dock Race in Montauk Sunday, it was a good thing that George Watson had the Elitefeats timers at the finish line in front of his dockside restaurant and bar, for this year’s turnout of more than 400 was double that of the last two years.

In just a few weeks, since the end of October, a crew of 20 has transformed the Buckskill Tennis Club into the Buckskill Winter Club, which on Saturday is to begin its 21st year of operation in East Hampton.

Leslie Czeladko, the men’s 7-on-7 soccer league overseer, said F.C. Tuxpan, Maidstone Market, and Sag Harbor United all had a chance to finish the season in first place as of Monday night.

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