Bonac Lights, a fund-raising initiative launched last year by the East Hampton Masons that incorporates holiday light displays, is back again and bigger than before.

The Montauk School Holiday Book Fair, featuring books, gifts, diaries and journals, fun school supplies, and other classic book fair goodies, will begin on Monday and run through Friday, Dec. 2.

A Westhampton Beach woman attended a fund-raiser at Gurney’s Friday night, and won a white vase and three pillows. Afterward, she asked a bellhop to put the items in her car, and he set the vase on a bench near the valet booth while retrieving a cart to ferry her belongings to her car. When the bellhop returned, the vase was gone. On Saturday, a member of Gurney’s staff returned it. 

Jamal Johns, one of five people who participated in a March robbery at the luxe retailer Balenciaga’s East Hampton shop, was sentenced on Friday to three and a half to five years in prison, Suffolk County District Attorney Raymond A. Tierney has announced.

Sag Harbor Village on Sunday night police charged a driver — who was injured when he crashed his car into a telephone pole — with drunken driving.

This Bonac Beachcomber came out the day before Thanksgiving in 1949, but instead of holiday festivities or football coverage, the focus was on a class debate and a 15th birthday party.

Norma Mae Edwards, a 10th-generation member of the Edwards family in Springs, died at home on Nov. 21. She was 98.

Joseph Dragotta, a star of the East Hampton High School football team who went on to be a California golf pro, died at home in Pleasanton in that state on Nov. 16. He was 63.

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.