The developers of the South Fork Wind farm, the country’s first utility-scale offshore wind farm, announced last week that offshore construction had surpassed the halfway point, with completed installation of seven of its 12 turbines.

Edward Mulford Baker wrote this letter to his only brother, David Baker, while commanding the Daniel Webster on an 1839 whaling voyage out of Sag Harbor to the South Seas.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host Mai Le Ho, a French-Vietnamese performance artist and educator, who will lead a diverse cast of performers at an all-ages dance jam called LayeRhythm on Saturday evening from 6:30 to 9. Plus: winter blues fun at the East Hampton Library, children's movies, arts and crafts, and more coming up for kids and teens.

East Hampton Town announced on Friday the ratification of contracts with its Police Benevolent Association and the Superior Officers Association, including amendments focusing on wages, revised shift calculations, the addition of Juneteenth as a recognized holiday, field training compensation, equipment and technology implementation, and a revised work schedule.

On Jan. 11, at the Mobil gas station on Main Street, passers-by noticed what turned out to be “fire suppression materials” sprayed all over the pavement there. An employee told police that his jacket had “got caught on an extinguisher pin” the night before, which apparently “activated the system in error.”

The Wainscott School is encouraging parents to register their children "as soon as possible."

Richard Gambino, recently of North Haven and Southampton, who rose to prominence in academia with his books on Italian-American history, died on Jan. 12 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 84. He had dementia and lymphoma.

Barbara Mark, who worked at the front desks of the Ocean Beach Resort and the Royal Atlantic in Montauk for many years, died at home on Friday in Amagansett, where she had recently moved with her son. She was 90.

Morton Pete Fischer, who started the Fischer Bearing Company of Mamaroneck, N.Y., and ran it for more than 45 years, died of colon cancer on Jan. 15 in North Carolina. Mr. Fischer, who had lived on Gravesend Avenue in Montauk, was 86.

It was a big deal 25 years ago when Caldor, the discount retailer with a 66,000-square-foot store in Bridgehampton, went bankrupt. And more rich tales of the South Fork’s past.

The most detailed justification to date of the size, design, and cost of East Hampton Town’s new senior citizens center was aired before the town board on Tuesday, as several residents continued to question and voice skepticism about the need for a 22,000-square-foot, $31.6 million building.

Anxious Sag Harbor residents did not get to have their say on Adam Potter’s 11 Bridge Street L.L.C. project this week, but there was news of a smaller plan at another property owned by Mr. Potter, where Michael Gluckman and his wife, Lila Beudert-Gluckman, are hoping to create a 23-seat “Smashburger”-style restaurant.

Cole Brauer, a 2012 East Hampton High School graduate who last summer became the first female sailor to the win the Bermuda One-Two, was as of last Thursday sitting in second place in the Global Solo Challenge, an around-the-world singlehanded sailing race that for her began on Oct. 29, when she set forth aboard First Light from A Coruña, Spain.

Last week was a big one for Alex Davis, a Bridgehampton High School sophomore who scored his 1,000th point during a 64-52 loss to the Ross School. Plus Bonac and Pierson hoops reports.

East Hampton High’s girls winter tracksters went to the maximum at the League 3 meet in Brentwood, while the boys swimming and girls basketball teams are in the thick of it.

From Pierson’s hardwood “cardiac kids” to a sneaker designer from Springs, it happened here, sports fans.

All the local sports action ahead . . .

Reader Comment: The Week That Was.

You have to feel a little sorry for Nick LaLota, a first-term member of Congress who would like to return to Washington and can’t risk upsetting the party’s meal ticket.

Governor Hochul’s new Resilient and Ready program recycles old ideas — resiliency implies bounceback, and this sends the wrong message when all attention must instead be focused on retreat.