Jerold M. Barber of Springs, a landscaper described by friends as a “true local,” died on Oct. 6. A cause of death was not provided.

Donald Fishman, a pulmonologist and chief resident at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, died at Calvary Hospital Hospice in the Bronx on Sunday. Dr. Fishman, who had lived in Montauk for many years, had cancer.

On Friday, Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Carmen Victoria St. George said Michael and Christine Aaron’s attempt to stop a brewery from being built on Toilsome Lane in East Hampton Village was “not ripe,” agreeing with the village’s zoning board of appeals that an official determination on whether the brewery is compatible with the village’s code has yet to be made.

The Huntting Inn, originally built in 1699 but purchased in 2020 by Landry’s of Houston, owner of the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino, is once again before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals and Design Review Board, asking for approval of a pool and hot tub behind the inn. Their original application was withdrawn in June 2021, after strong neighborhood opposition.

“Witchcraft in East Hampton: A Short Play” by Virginia H. Page (1926-2021), a page of which is seen here, focuses on East Hampton’s 1657 witchcraft trial, known as the Goody Garlick trial.

“Angelina’s Halloween”

The children’s book author Katharine Holabird, creator of the Angelina Ballerina series, will be the star of a spooky story hour at The Church in Sag Harbor on Friday, Oct. 28, when she reads “Angelina’s Halloween,” with a trained ballerina from the Hamptons Ballet Theatre School helping to bring the story to life.

On Sunday morning, officers punched a new hole in the belt of a man whose pants had fallen down on Newtown Lane. The man, 56, is well known in the village. The last hole in his belt was buckled, police said, but was not keeping his pants up. “Negative intent of exposure,” they concluded.

Zoning codes have not kept up with the increased threat presented by accelerating sea level rise and more powerful storms.

The claim that bail reform in New York State has led to an increase in violence is not supported by facts.

Estimates are that close to half of all insect species are falling and that a third are in danger of extinction.

My grandparents had a passion for steamships that, as these family inclinations do, has somehow trickled down to me.

Once more unto the gravel trails of Van Cortlandt Park.

That compound-fractured tennis racket I have had as a reminder in my office may actually be a thing of the past.

Oct. 22, 1962: I was ordained to ministry in the Presbyterian Church, and President Kennedy addressed the nation on the Cuban Missile Crisis.

From memories of Joe O’Connell and Kent Feuerring to divisions over Lee Zeldin, it’s the week in reader comment.

The day in 1922 when Alfred E. Smith came in for some praise, a 1972 effort to organize South Fork farm workers, and more ripped from the pages of The Star.

The first half of Saturday morning’s high school football game here belonged to Harborfields, which led 28-0 at the halftime break. But the second half was pretty much East Hampton’s, which led Joe McKee, Bonac’s head coach, to say after the 34-14 loss that while he was proud of his players he wondered why they hadn’t played with the same verve in the first half as they had in the second.

Last week, East Hampton High’s boys soccer team won the program’s first league championship since 2014, and the boys cross-country team won the varsity B race at an invitational meet at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx.

Pickup games open to all in the  world’s fastest sport, badminton, have begun to be played again on Monday and Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 at the Amagansett School, and will be through May.

While the fishing for striped bass has been strong in Montauk, it was out of my reach, so I decided to take advantage of the sunny and windless conditions on Saturday morning for the opening of blackfish season in waters outside Long Island Sound.