An East Quogue man turned himself in to the East Hampton Village Police Department on Jan. 31 after allegedly violating a court-issued order of protection.

Guild Hall’s Student Art Festival is ongoing through Feb. 26, but this weekend holds a special highlight: Viv Corringham, an artist and composer, will join Springs School fifth graders for a choir performance on Saturday at 3 p.m. Plus: stories, crafts, kids' movies and book clubs, social activities for pre-teens, and more.

After the league meet last week, five East Hampton High School wrestlers qualified to compete in the county meet at Stony Brook University this weekend, while the boys swimming team did well and the tracksters hit the large-schools indoor meet.

Tonight, a banner attesting to Pierson (Sag Harbor) High School’s sole state championship boys basketball team is to be raised midway through the Babylon-Whalers game, and that team’s coach, Bob Vishno, is hoping to be there.

The local sporting scene — the week that is to be.

Michael Robert Dickerson of East Hampton, who was 69 and had worked in real estate, hosted an LTV show, and painted, died on Jan. 31 in hospice care at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead.

Robert M. Cooper, who “represented the best of Bonac” and ran the Cooper Trenching Corporation for more than 30 years, died at age 80 on Saturday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Mary A. Hyer, who had a 20-year career with Bridgehampton National Bank and volunteered with the Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church outreach program, died on Jan. 30 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. A 44-year resident of Amagansett and East Hampton, she was 91.

Loretta Grabowski of East Hampton, a skilled baker popular with the neighborhood children, died on Saturday at the San Simeon by the Sound nursing home in Greenport. She was 91.

Margaret Frances Samet, a medical laboratory manager and interior decorator who lived in Amagansett and East Hampton after retiring, died on Dec. 10. She was 96.

Patricia Wadzinski, a vice president, associate broker, and global real estate adviser for Sotheby’s International Realty in East Hampton, died at home on Talkhouse Walk here on Sunday. She was 74.

Bruce E. Lyon, formerly of Tyrone Drive in Springs, died at home in North Carolina on Jan. 20 after a long illness. He was 81.

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For 50 years, Edward Thomas Banks used a horse-drawn wagon to collect refuse around East Hampton. When he finally gave in and bought a truck, it merited a page-one story in The Star.

Parents and a former Springs student aired serious concerns this week over the impact of bullying and harassment they say is taking place on buses and the playground, prompting pledges from school officials to follow up.

The downtown Montauk ocean beach is rapidly changing this week, this time not due to the coastal storms that have ravaged the shoreline this winter but to implementation of the federal Army Corps of Engineers’ Fire Island to Montauk Point reformulation project.

La Dune, an iconic property in Southampton once listed for $150 million, was sold by Sotheby’s Concierge Auctions last month for $88.48 million in a bid placed over the phone. It was the most expensive property ever sold in a real estate auction on the South Fork.

For the 2024 season, fisheries along the Atlantic Coast (except in Chesapeake Bay) will continue to adhere to a one-fish daily limit of a striped bass between 28 to 31 inches. Commercial fishermen will also see a 7-percent reduction in their harvest quotas this year.

A Suffolk County Supreme Court justice has dismissed a petition filed by Teresa Bertha on behalf of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association that would have allowed Ms. Bertha to sue the village for taking over the association’s ambulance certificate and its bank account.

Two large pumps buried near the Beacon restaurant on West Water Street were the unsung heroes after Superstorm Sandy, removing an estimated eight million gallons of saltwater from the parking lots behind Main Street, and even in less extreme situations the pumps play an important role in keeping the area dry.