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The shape of catastrophes to come? In 1998 the Kellehers of Sagaponack saw their beachfront house collapse into the sea. And more from past pages of The Star.

Alexander Russell, a chef who began working in restaurants as a teenager in East Hampton and went on to work in kitchens from Japan to Florida to New Orleans to Zurich as well as on two yachts, died on New Year’s Day in Sag Harbor.

Joan A. Ehren, a former president of the Ladies Village Improvement Society of East Hampton and of the Friends of Guild Hall, died on Jan. 18 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital after having been ill for several weeks.

Maryanne Bennett of Sag Harbor, a nurse for more than 40 years, died of pulmonary fibrosis on Jan. 11 at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, having been ill for a year.

Linda Suzanne Deeb Metcalf, who owned the Lume candle store in Amagansett for 12 years and lived in that hamlet for more than 20, died of dementia on Dec. 28 at the Bellhaven Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care in Brookhaven.

A day before the public descended on LTV Studios for a long-awaited hearing on the Wainscott Commercial Center subdivision, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals had a hearing of its own Tuesday to consider whether the proposal would need a special permit as a planned industrial park.

Remembering Pedro Moreno, soccer player, house painter, and friend to many.

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has gone to the dogs again — and that's great news. The hospital announced Wednesday that following updates to Covid visitation policies, its pet therapy teams are back on the job.

Friday was the East Hampton High School boys basketball team’s Senior Night, and before it, in addition to citing his five seniors — Luke Reese, Jack Dickinson, Finn Byrnes, Nick Cordone, and Jesse Cohen — Dan White, Bonac’s coach, paid tribute to Howard Wood, Joe McKee, Chris Coleman, Don Reese, and Nick Jarboe, whom he credited with having molded the team that was that night to win the Division IV championship.

While only two of the East Hampton wrestling team’s starters advancd to the county tournament at Stony Brook University, the season, during which the young and relatively inexperienced team won 11 matches vis-á-vis 11 losses, was a great one.

The East Hampton High School boys swimming team placed fourth in the League II meet at Ward Melville High School last Thursday and will be well represented at the county meet on Saturday at Stony Brook University.

The degree to which our national leaders lack a sense of contrition, or even decency, today is staggering.

When the seas go up because of climate change, the beaches and bluffs go back, and this should have added new urgency to the region’s coastal planning.

The controversy involving both East Hampton Village beach-parking permits and the mayor’s attempt to take over the East Hampton Volunteer Ambulance Association might not seem related, but there is an obvious way they are linked — and that is politics.

Other than buying a set of tires, a cabin air filter, windshield wipers, and keeping up with the oil change schedule, my Honda Clarity has had no costs other than for electricity — about $2.50 for 45 to 50 miles’ charge.

The animals in my garden are behaving like they think they are stars in a Beatrix Potter story or something, and I don’t mean they are comporting themselves adorably.

Calling Manny Farber . . .

The late John Niles, who coached the 1986 Bridgehampton High Killer Bees boys basketball team, said it was the best group of athletes who’d ever played for him.

Love is revealed in a rediscovered box of notes from 1999.