Robert John Burke, an ironworker who had spent many summers in Sag Harbor, died on March 24 at San Simeon by the Sound Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Greenport. Mr. Burke had been ill for three years. He was 78.

When was the last time an East Hampton baseball team was 6-0?

East Hampton High’s girls lacrosse team won one and then went out and ran the Katy’s Courage 5K, while the boys lacrosse Islanders went 3-3 and Bonac tennis remained undefeated.

East Hampton’s athletic director was to have appealed Monday to Section XI’s athletic council urging it to let the school’s varsity football team stay one more year in Division IV, a lower-enrollment division.

A historic marker honoring Carl Yastrzemski was unveiled at Bridgehampton High’s new baseball field on April 5 before an appreciative crowd numbering around 100, many of whom stayed to watch the first varsity baseball team the school has fielded since 1979.

My 30-foot Novia Scotia-built boat has been in the water for nearly three weeks, but, sadly, I’ve yet to untie its dock lines.

For a few weeks now, we have been thinking about what ails some of our beloved local institutions.

With few exceptions, eastern Long Island’s school boards do not accurately reflect the demographic makeup of their districts.

I’m glad my daughter is finally getting into thrifting.

Notes on life in a small plane.

It is depressing to think that war, nuclear weaponry, and oceans clogged with plastic will be our legacy to coming generations.

If we’re interested in reducing the strain on our interdependent world amid this devastating conflict, it’s worth considering a more mundane response: conservation of resources.

Guild Hall tops reader comment this week, but water concerns aren’t far behind.

The local jail passes muster in 1922, the county pushes smallpox vaccinations in 1947, and the day in 1972 when the sloop the Sojourn came aground at Montauk.

The week’s real estate rundown.

The Bridgehampton Museum’s new lecture series brings historians and authors of books with a historical focus for talks, Q&A sessions, and the inevitable wine and cheese.

Truman Capote pulled back the curtain on lives that were only outwardly glamorous, and in some ways ended an era.

Be on the lookout for detours — Montauk Highway in Wainscott will be closed in both directions between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. this week as construction along the South Fork Wind farm's onshore cable route progresses.

LongHouse Reserve will open with new artworks and a new director, who reflects on the turbulence of the recent past and bright prospects for the future.

A new Parrish Art Museum exhibition will illuminate the history of Jasper Johns's groundbreaking work in prints.