A 55-year-old Springs man was charged with misdemeanor criminal contempt on Feb. 22, after allegedly violating an order of protection.

In a case dating back to October of 2021, East Hampton Town Justice Steven Tekulsky sentenced a 29-year-old East Hampton man on Feb. 15 to a six-month revocation of his driver’s license and two years’ probation after he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated.

Christine Stanley, a playwright and poet formerly of Sag Harbor, died of heart failure on Friday at Albany Medical Center. She was 87.

Peter Joseph Deleski Jr., who had been a captain of the Sag Harbor Fire Department’s Otter Hose Company and a 21-year honorary member of the department, died last Thursday at the age of 80.

Billie Kalbacher, who with her husband started the Kalbacher’s Auto and Marine service shop in Springs, died on Feb. 14 at San Simeon on the Sound in Greenport. She was 95.

Visiting hours for Patricia Eames of East Hampton, who died on Tuesday, will be held Thursday, March 2, from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A full obituary will appear in a future issue.

Saturday’s game, which the Mariners won handily, 69-52, was the third time Southampton had defeated Sag Harbor this winter, though Pierson’s coach could take heart in the fact that at times his players looked pretty smooth in breaking a vaunted run-and-jump press.

Kids here who swim, and who play hockey, soccer, baseball, and softball, have been active of late honing skills at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, the Buckskill Winter Club in East Hampton, the Sportime Arena in Amagansett, and at the Hub 44 building on the way to Springs.

On March 4, 1898, The Star reported that "work has progressed on the bicycle path on Main street in a satisfactory manner this week. Hundreds of loads have already been carted gratuitously, and although the cycle club well knows that it has undertaken a big job, it feels greatly encouraged by the hearty support being given by the citizens."

With elections every two years, it has been said that the main job of members of the House of Representatives who want to remain in office is fund-raising. This puts them at a great distance from actual voters.

For ordinary gun owners, the safety protocols stressed at the Maidstone Gun Club and places like it are in the public interest.

One of the things that has struck me about the rash of dead whales on beaches in the Northeast is that it has been going on for years, millenniums, in fact.

I’m one of those people who has extraordinarily intense dreams and who always wants to talk about them.

John Irving swings for the fences.

What’s it to be? Torpor and dictators? Or an educated, enlivened, engaged populace debating how best to proceed?

Thoughts on that road sign that says: Last Exit Before the End of Your Usefulness as a Person.

The latest raft of reader comment.

The latest real estate transactions across the South Fork.

John Howard Payne (1791-1852) wrote and composed “Have a Care Mon Ami,” the sheet music for which is seen here, around 1833, for a musical farce called “Fricandeau, or the Cook and the Coronet.”

Dry suits, Jet Skis, computer equipment, a beach rake, a set of aluminum bleachers, and several cars and trucks in varying conditions, all declared surplus property by East Hampton Town, are among 56 items being auctioned by the town.