Janet Van Sickle, 86, died at home in Montauk on Nov. 8. A celebration of her life will be planned next year.

It was an unusually short week in East Hampton Star reader comment . . .

Two East Hamptoners report on their experiences at the New York City Marathon.

A rundown of the honors bestowed upon East Hampton High School’s student-athletes this week.

When the Ross School’s student-athletes convened for the fall athletic awards ceremony on Nov. 9, they were in for a surprise: the debut of the school’s official mascot, the Ross Raven, in a sleek, brand-new costume, who bounded into the gymnasium with high energy and high-fives all around.

After a mixed bag of a season, I happily climbed aboard the Elizabeth II, a charter boat out of the Montauk Marine Basin, for a trip for cod and bass, both of which I latched into within minutes.

Help with paying for heating by way of HEAP can make lives easier in winter for the poorest residents.

A lawsuit on behalf of the family of two women killed in a Noyac house fire in August points correctly to the complicity of local governments in a massive, often unsafe, and effectively unregulated housing economy.

Once again, people are asking us what the heck is wrong with Town Pond.

I have a visual memory of the recipe for oysters Rattray in my mother’s handwriting on a piece of paper tucked into a cookbook.

And now you will be treated, reader, to the boring column in which I describe the circumstances in which I finally caught Covid-19.

A failed home repair has a columnist fondly recalling life without running water.

Evidently, there is “a more brotherly mood” abroad in the nation than I had thought.

Was it a quirk of history or the hand of God that brought Squanto and William Bradford together?

Sizable transactions in Amagansett lead the weekly list.

One day in 1972, “very little happened at the East Hampton Town Board’s unusually short meeting.”

There will be a free Covid-19 vaccine clinic next Thursday at St. Luke's Episcopal Church on James Lane in East Hampton, offering bivalent Covid-19 booster shots by appointment from 3 to 7 p.m.

Jann Wenner was in the right place (San Francisco) at the right time (1967). Not to diminish the man's achievements as a magazine magnate. Here’s his story.

The East Hampton Trails Preservation Society will host a cranberry picking hike in the Walking Dunes on Monday at 1 p.m. Participants will learn about the history and ecology of the Walking Dunes, and have been advised to take a plastic bag for any remaining cranberries in the bog.

The many buildings at Campo Cuttica, the artist Eugenio Cuttica’s 40-acre property in Flanders, serve not only as his spacious home and studio but as a bustling gathering place for family, friends, pets, and visiting artists.