Virginia W. Backlund, a public health nurse for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 15. She was 101.

Beverly Schanzer, who retired to Sag Harbor after a successful media career that included work as a writer and producer in the CBS news division and at NBC, died on Feb. 14 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 83 and had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

Susan Dorothy D’Angelo, who lived on McGuirk Street in East Hampton, died on Nov. 23 at her son Christopher D’Angelo’s home in Rockville Centre. The cause was complications of diabetes.

Visiting hours for Harold Foster of Montauk will be held on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Saturday at 11:30 a.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk.

The Mariners defeated Sag Harbor's Whalers in the county B-C-D championship Tuesday and will now play Class A Kings Park Friday night for the county small schools title. Pierson's first game in the state tourney is March 9.

In celebration of its 30th anniversary, HamptonsFilm announced on Wednesday an extended festival that will run Oct. 7 through Oct. 16 with screenings and programs across the South Fork.

In “Going There,” her memoir, Katie Couric spares no one, least of all herself, in coming clean on a 40-year career in on-air news reporting. 

Winter walks at LongHouse, queer history at Watermill Center, and spring flowers at Rogers Memorial.

Wiley and Sherald films at the Parrish, printmaking with Dan Welden at The Church, new group shows at Keyes, Borghi, Grenning, and White Room, and Indigenous talks in Southampton.

Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts will celebrate the philanthropy of Marty Cohen, its board chairman, and his wife, Michele Cohen, at its annual dinner at Cipriani 42nd Street.

Talks and tours at Bridge Gardens and Quail Hill Farm cover the care of fruit trees, planting seeds, growing food crops, and more

With Covid-19 transmission falling to levels not seen since last year, East Hampton Town has lifted a mask requirement for those entering town offices and other facilities. 

Love Bites from East End chefs for Katy's Courage, new prix fixe at MTK Lobster House, tortilla soup at Loaves and Fishes, and more seasonal openings and closures

"My friends, the day has come," Gov. Kathy Hochul said Sunday after announcing that the state would lift its school mask mandate as of Wednesday following consultation with public health officials, teachers, school administrators, and PTA members. Local officials in individual school districts and counties will continue to have the power to impose mask mandates and other restrictive measures based on their needs.

The daughter of one of the few Black people to be imprisoned in the Nazi prison camps during World War II, will be the guest in an online talk co-sponsored by the Southampton African American Museum and Temple Adas Israel of Sag Harbor on Saturday at 7 p.m.

Documents associated with slavery in East Hampton are on display in the East Hampton Library lobby in an exhibit curated by Andrea Meyer and Mayra Scanlon of its Long Island Collection.

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday to postpone the planned temporary closure of East Hampton Airport and its reopening as a new, private-use airport following an executive session to discuss the plan, which has incited furious opposition and multiple lawsuits by interests from airport users and the aviation industry to residents who fear diversion of aircraft to their neighborhoods.

For the last 20 years, people have slipped into Accabonac Harbor behind a small stand of cedar trees next to the Springs General Store, a Town of East Hampton-historical site. Sage Island, Wood Tick Island, the Merrill Lake Sanctuary, and Louse Point were all just a paddle away. No longer.