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Quiescence tends to corrupt and absolute quiescence corrupts absolutely.

The remarkable story of a man of character who bought his way out of bondage and became a successful landowner.

Kay Simonson Waterbury, who made service to others her life, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 2.

Sonia Gaviola, who helped start a number of Montauk businesses, died of complications of cancer on Jan. 23 in West Virginia.

Barbara Jo Brundige, a teacher, school and summer camp owner and director, real estate broker, and volunteer, died of cancer on Feb. 9. The part-time Sag Harbor resident was 77.

For followers of South Fork real estate action, here’s the latest.

The East Hampton Town Police Department has announced it is accepting applications for the Civil Service position of public safety dispatcher. Applications are due by March 22.

The Amagansett Village Improvement Society, in carrying out its mission to keep the hamlet beautiful, is having trees pruned on Main Street from the Amagansett School east to St. Michael’s Lutheran Church. The work, which is being done by Whitmores, will continue through the rest of this month. Look for the AVIS banner to see which trees are being pruned.

For hikers who enjoy history, Celia Paul and Steve Rosen will lead a short walk at Northwest Harbor on Sunday that will also be something of a history lesson. The harbor was East Hampton's main port from 1654 until 1761.

Eric Alterman is back with a typically contentious, hefty, diligently detailed exploration, this time focused on the long-running American debate over Israel.

The boys basketball teams from East Hampton, Bridgehampton, and Pierson (Sag Harbor) High Schools have made the postseason, and on Thursday East Hampton, which won Division IV with a 13-2 record, will play host at 5 p.m. to the Amityville-Hampton Bays winner.

In response to last summer's drought conditions, the Suffolk County Water Authority has adopted new water-conservation rules for its customers, effective Feb. 1.

Andrina Wekontash Smith's commitment to art for social change is finding expression in a new virtual reality project about Martin Luther King Jr. and a TV comedy that spans the Shinnecock Reservation to the "Glamptons."

The Parrish Art Museum will mark a significant anniversary with exhibitions and programs designed to provide "diverse points of access for different audiences."

The Parrish Art Museum will mark a significant anniversary with exhibitions and programs designed to provide "diverse points of access for different audiences."

“Unbossed and Unbowed,” Ingrid Griffith’s one-woman show about the groundbreaking politician and activist Shirley Chisholm, is coming to Bay Street Theater.

A new performing arts director is coming to Guild Hall from the Music Center in Los Angeles and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

A Grateful Dead tribute band and "Mardi Gras Mambo and Latin Jazz" at the Masonic Temple, plus Mike Dawes, Crash Test Dummies, and Dirty Deeds set to rock in Riverhead.

The Montauk Library will screen "Leisurama," a documentary about the inexpensive prefab houses from the 1960s, more than 200 of which wound up in Montauk's Culloden Shores.