Barbara Metzger, the author of over three dozen books and a dozen novellas, was a woman of many talents, working at various points in her life as an editor, proofreader, writer of greeting card verses, and an artist. Ms. Metzger, who was known as Bob-E, died on June 21 after a long illness. She was 79.

Isabel McSweeney of Springs, a teacher at the Springs School for many years, died of complications of metastatic lung cancer on June 18 at home in Delray Beach, Fla. She was 78.

Barbara Anhalt, who in her more than 50 years here worked at several mainstays of downtown East Hampton, from Guild Hall to Bank of America to the office at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, died of pulmonary artery disease on June 7. She was 80.

John Roland Lycke, 85, formerly of Montauk, died on Sunday evening at Citrus Memorial Hospital in Ocala, Fla., due to respiratory failure. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

The South Fork Wind farm, New York State’s first offshore wind farm and the first utility-scale offshore project in the United States, has passed a milestone with installation of the first monopile foundation at the wind farm’s site, around 35 miles off Montauk Point.

A bike path lament in 1898 and neighborhood trouble for the record exec Tommy Mottola in 1998, plus more from The Star of yore.

Unique, always lively, it’s The Star’s weekly installment of reader comment.

The East Hampton Village Board has a golden opportunity ahead to clear up confusion regarding the use of Herrick Park.

It is difficult to know yet whether disaster was averted or just delayed by a United States Supreme Court decision released this week in an important voting case.

Lessons learned in early employment.

Giving it all at a Little League game.

Words of unity at a graduation ceremony on Pierson Hill.

It was never going to be easy for the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals to rule against the Shagwong Tavern in Montauk. This week after wrestling with language and the weight of history it sided with the tavern, deciding in a split vote that the Shagwong is not a nightclub even when the tables are pushed aside for dancing, but that it still must comply with fire codes.

Moving on after the death of my father involved moving, literally towing, his riding lawn mover and all it signified.

It was a week without bombast among home buys on the South Fork from the spring.

The dissolution of a writer’s marriage, one essay at a time.

From movie quotes to history lessons to Taylor Swift lyrics, Saturday's Pierson High School commencement ceremony contained no shortage of sage life advice for the 61 seniors graduating in the traditional fashion on Sag Harbor's Pierson Hill.

LTV Studios in Wainscott is hosting eight weeks of podcasting workshops with Tony Dec, an industry veteran who was the founding co-director of Stony Brook Southampton's Podcast Fellows program and its lead instructor until 2022.

Earl Hopson, a wide receiver in football, shooting guard in basketball, and all-county long-jumper, Erin Bock Abran, an all-county field hockey and softball player, and Kim Valverde-Solis, a four-time all-county girls volleyballer, are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame in the fall.

James Bradley, 16, has qualified for the U.S.G.A.’s national junior amateur in South Carolina in late July, and Michael Clifford-Levy, 15, won the Long Island Golf Association’s boys championship in Smithtown on June 21.