A deep dive into expenses and revenues over the last four months culminated Tuesday night in the East Hampton School Board’s adoption of a $76.5-million budget plan for the 2022-23 school year.

At precisely the moment last Thursday when the United States Senate voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court, about 45 female students from nine East End high schools were gathered in the cafeteria of the Stony Brook University Southampton campus to learn about the roles of female elected officials in politics.

East Hampton High School has a track record of taking proactive steps to protect the health of its students, addressing topics such as vaping and mental wellbeing in recent years. Now, with administrators reporting more and more students struggling with substance abuse and addiction to electronic devices, they are again tackling difficult thorny issues with openness and the help of experts.

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton has lined up some seasonal outdoor activities for kids and teens next week, plus a big celebration of Earth Day.

Lots of sunshine is in the forecast for the weekend, making it a great time to take a hike.

This cyanotype shows Grace Binney Winkley Wilson (1862-1952), who spent summers in East Hampton between 1891 and 1895, posing with a racket on a grass court, a tennis net directly behind her.

John Q. Trojanowski, a renowned neuropathologist and director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, died of complications of chronic spinal cord injuries on Feb. 8 in Philadelphia. A former summertime renter in Springs, he was 75.

Marisa Jordan Hansell of Lazy Point, Amagansett, a mental health therapist, died of bilateral pulmonary embolism in New York City on March 24. She was 57.

Richard Janis of East Hampton, most recently the dockmaster at the Montauk Lake Club and Marina, died unexpectedly at home on April 6. He was 66.

Richard Hugh Ketcham, who moved to East Hampton after retiring from a 30-year career with IBM in 1985, died on March 19 at the Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunkirk, N.Y. He was 91.

James M. Lowney, who had worked at Dreesen’s, Sam’s restaurant, Reed’s Photo, and the Maidstone Club, moved from East Hampton to Lancaster, S.C., in December. He died there on March 23 at the age of 60.

Maureen K. Murphy of Montauk, a professor and former chairwoman and executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority, died at home on March 30 after a long illness. She was 84.

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.