Judy Lerner, an educator for 30 years who was committed to social justice, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 28.

Margaret Santacroce of Sag Harbor, a skilled seamstress who was called Peggy, died on Jan. 30 at South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore. She was 91.

Beverly Dash, who was a supporter of L.G.B.T.Q.+ rights and resources on the South Fork and with her partner was among the first same-sex couples to obtain a domestic partnership here, died on Feb. 14 in the care of a rehabilitation center in Boca Raton, Fla.

A memorial service for Andrew S. Rothman of Manhattan and Springs will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday at the Sanctuary at All Souls Unitarian Church at 1157 Lexington Avenue in Manhattan.

The family of Darlene Shields Bartoletta, who died on March 6 in Tampa, Fla., will receive visitors from 4 to 6 p.m. on Friday at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Graveside prayers are on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Cemetery.

Anne V. Porter of Wainscott died on March 4. She was 97. There are no services scheduled. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

The Sag Harbor School District announced plans late Wednesday to attempt an outright purchase of the properties on Marsden Street that have up to now been on the table for a joint purchase with Southampton Town, which held two lengthy public hearings on the matter over the last two weeks. 

A girls flag football team is debuting this spring at East Hampton High School, which is particularly fitting because two East Hampton graduates, Teresa Schirrippa and Crystal Winter, have represented the United States in international flag football competition.

Turnout for East Hampton Town’s junior lifeguard and lifeguard training programs, which kicked off on March 5, was on the low side. About a hundred kids and teens had signed up, and 75 came for the youth evaluation and training, while only eight came for the first session of lifeguard training.

Since ex-police chief and current East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen first started his campaign against the Village Ambulance Association, the main public reaction has been if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

The East Hampton Village Board again seems intent on handing over its modest Sea Spray Cottages at Main Beach to a for-profit hospitality management company. This is a bad idea. The land should be open to the public, if anything.

Foul weather is just the way it is here in the month of March.

My somewhat critical attitude toward cats — my less than all-embracing affection for all pets, all the time — is a character flaw, I’m aware.

The surprising end result of all that construction work at La Guardia.

Is heaven some sort of club, a fraternity? If so, its population may be sparse.

How did we get to this precarious situation with Montauk’s water quality? The problem, in a word, is overdevelopment.

Considering George Balanchine, the autocratic, contradictory Russian émigré who gave new life to American ballet.

Robert Chaloner, who was instrumental in establishing Stony Brook Medicine as a trusted partner and provider of high-quality health care on the East End following the Stony Brook and Southampton merger in 2017, has announced he is stepping down as chief administrative officer.

Bay Street Theater has put out a call to teen writers to enter its Writing the Wave: The 2023 New Works Creative Writing Competition. Kids 13 and up from across Suffolk County can enter original works in the genres of poetry, spoken word, rap, monologue, song, or short scene.

The Jam Session brings top-tier musicians and enthusiastic crowds to Sag Harbor’s Masonic Temple every Tuesday night.