In the Springs house of John and Alice Marlin some 500 boxes of documents — the personal archive of his mother — bring to life the crushing, cruel realities of World War II and of living under a hostile occupying force.

Thomas Gardella, who ran unopposed for Sag Harbor Village Mayor, seems intent on building bridges, which could be just what the village needs after a turbulent couple of years.

Here on the East End, there are more than half a dozen fireworks shows happening over the next 10 days, and more planned later in July and in August. Here's where to see them.

Before she was named to the Z.B.A., Jeanne Kane chaired the village’s historic preservation and architectural review board. “She’s familiar with the boards and working with the building department,” said the new mayor, Thomas Gardella. She will be sworn in on Monday, taking his unexpired seat on the village board.

Restoring the east inlet, which closed in 2007 after an April northeaster, would improve water quality and habitat for shellfish, finfish, and eelgrass. It would also reduce water flow through the west inlet, and, potentially, shoreline erosion north of Lazy Point and on Promised Land. It is “a project beyond the scope of what the trustees on their own could finance.”

This needlework sampler was stitched by Lucretia Fithian (1765-1815), probably between 1770 and 1780. Lucretia was one of nine children born to Capt. David Fithian (1723-1805) and Esther Conkling Fithian (1728-1800).

The Breakwater Yacht Club in Sag Harbor is once again hosting weekly sailing clinics for kids this summer, with sessions that started this week and continue through Labor Day. Plus there's fun for kids at local libraries and museums on tap this week.

This week Senior Chief Nathaniel J. O’Connell relieved Master Chief William B. Harris, who has served as Officer in Charge of Station Montauk for the past four years.

A June 17 traffic stop on Pantigo Road in front of East Hampton Justice Court led to felony weapons charges for an Islip Terrace man.

Hermann Wayd, an accomplished pastry chef who worked at Gurney’s Inn in Montauk in the 1960s before opening his own restaurant and bakery in that hamlet and later in East Hampton, died on June 17 in Burtonsville, Md. He was 83 and had been in declining health.

Elaine Lucille Evans, a career teacher who with her husband bought a house in Springs almost 60 years ago, died in her sleep at home in Brooklyn on June 17. She was 84.

A leading Abstract Expressionist painter whose output spanned seven decades, Connie Fox’s work is represented in the Guild Hall Museum, the Parrish Art Museum, and at major museums across the country, including the Brooklyn Museum and the Albright-Knox Gallery, now known as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. She died peacefully at home in East Hampton on June 19

Sheldon Harnick, whose wildly successful Broadway musical about an insular Jewish village trying to survive in early 20th-century Czarist Russia has delighted audiences in France, England, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, Israel, Germany, Rhodesia, and dozens of other countries where tradition, like the song, runs deep, died on Friday at his Upper West Side apartment.

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.

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