After Jimmy Ernst died, a huge bed / piece of art from his father, the surrealist Max Ernst, had to be moved from Jimmy’s Lee Avenue house. It wasn’t easy.

A 29-year-old East Hampton woman went to police headquarters on March 4 to report being the victim of sexual assault, stemming from an incident on Feb. 23 at a house in town.

Police were called Friday afternoon to investigate a report that people were camping illegally in the Grace Estate Preserve. They came upon three men from Nassau County who’d put up a tent and built a campfire. Police told them to put out the fire, then issued a ticket for open burning and directed them to leave immediately.

Kenneth Wayne Carter Sr., a star East Hampton High School basketball player who was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2013, died on Feb. 27 in South Carolina. He was 63.

The family of Noreen C. Barbour of Sagaponack will receive visitors on Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Brockett Funeral Home in Southampton. A funeral service will be held on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Richard T. Bono of East Hampton and Ballina Mayo, Ireland, died on Feb. 26.

Gloria M. Giles of Sag Harbor died on Sunday in Richmond, Va. She was 66.

Formal spring season practices started on Monday. Here’s an early look at East Hampton’s teams, from baseball to lacrosse to track.

West Hempstead, nine deep, athletic, and well coached, played well in transition on the way to a 75-54 win over the Pierson Whalers for the Long Island Class B title last week.

Another missive from the Prohibition-era rum wars, and more drama ripped from the pages of the venerable Star.

It’s time for the readers to have their say. And say. And more say.

The stressed global environment has to be addressed — for whales, dolphins, and everything else on Earth.

Thank heaven for the Ladies Village Improvement Society.

The Amagansett School District needs a new superintendent. Again.

The Star building, completed around 1901, is a relative toddler among others on East Hampton’s Main Street.

Keeping up with the chickens on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Today is Pi Day, reminding me that I know nothing of mathematics.

This is not the time to bury our heads in the sand or in our electronic devices.

Sag Harbor Village has agreed to sublease the so-called "gas ball lot" from the developer Adam Potter, who controls 5 Bridge Street Limited Liability Company, which was awarded the lease by National Grid at the end of last year.

New realty transactions here.