Barbara Ann Anderson of East Hampton, a former switchboard operator and accounting secretary, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 22 of complications related to surgery. She was 80.

Peggy Anne Bradt, beachgoer, bridge player, and Amagansett part-timer, died of complications of vasculitis on March 23 in New York. She was 91.

Sarnie Ogus, a dance therapist who lived in East Hampton from 1991 to 2012, died on April 2 at Calvary Hospice in the Bronx. She was 97.

Dr. Paul Fordham Nugent Jr., a native of East Hampton, was an Air Force officer, flight surgeon, and military hospital commander who later served as medical monitor for NASA’s manned spaceflight program. He died in Cincinnati on April 6 at the age of 95.

A lunch celebrating the life of Janet Rose Dordelman of Springs will be held on May 4 at noon at the Springs Firehouse. Mrs. Dordelman, who ran a beauty salon in the hamlet for many years, died on Aug. 8 at the age of 89.

Mark H. Nason died on April 9 in Vandalia, Ohio. Mr. Nason grew up in East Hampton and was an Air Force veteran. He was 67. A service will be held at a later date in Ohio.

Two weeks ago, a woman who answered a call to Zero Bond in Manhattan denied that the private social club — which offers its members space for meals, drinks, and meetings — was looking to open in East Hampton. This week, however, an attorney representing the Hedges Inn, with which Zero Bond is negotiating a lease, said, "We're not denying that at all."

New from the Star mailbag . . .

Montauk is in a rough place with the imminent closing of its sole pharmacy.

East Hampton Town has a waiting list of more than 450 people seeking affordable senior citizen housing but only 127 apartments. A proposal to allow 12 housing units per acre might increase the supply by a third.

Newsreaders and culture mavens were delighted this week to learn that Guild Hall has announced that after two years of work the arts institution will raise the curtain on a fully renovated John Drew Theater in July.

This late winter and spring have been wet and wild.

Everything I understand about social class in America I learned at a farmers market summer job.

“Government do take a bite, don’t she.”

To have order imposed on one who hasn’t been used to it, one who does not feel whole unless stacks of sports pages past surround him, can be traumatic.

On the occasion of the wartime opening of the extended nature trail at David’s Lane, a 79-year-old conservationist reminded us why we need the greenery.

Real estate transactions here? Here’s the latest.

The Suffolk County Police Department on Wednesday identified a woman killed in a hit-and-run crash on Monday as Alison Pfefferkorn of Sag Harbor.

The question was whether I should stay in port on April 9 or put out my lobster traps for the season. Sounds simple, yes? But it wasn’t. Hear me out.

The life of Kenny Carter, a state-champion Bonac basketball player who died at the age of 63 on Feb. 27, is to be celebrated at the Clubhouse in Wainscott on April 27 from 5 to 9 p.m.