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The week in reader comment.

The Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament made an appearance here Saturday for the first time in three years, and, because of a new round-robin/scramble format, every wrestler from the six schools that vied was guaranteed four matches.

Sas Peters, a 65-year-old Amagansetter who has persuaded this country’s Ultimate disk governing body over the past years to add divisions for 40, 50, and 60-year-olds in officially sanctioned national and international play, contended last month in the first 60-and-over Legends world championship tournament in Sarasota, Fla.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball team won a season-opening tournament at Mattituck High School over the weekend, and the boys swimming team, while it lost its season-opener by 3 points at Hauppauge last Thursday, would have won if diving had not been one of the events. East Hampton has no divers.

In baseball parlance, the fishing season is now formally in the bottom of the ninth inning. There are two outs and two strikes on the batter at the plate, or in this case a fisherman with a rod and reel in hand. For my part, I did not want to strike out by not fishing one last time before the end of the year.

Linda Sue Russell's lifelong goal, her family wrote, was to be happy and raise a family, and that she did. She died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 13.

Christopher McErlean of Flanders, known to all as Chris Mac, was an avid fisherman, basketball player, and Golden Gloves-winning boxer who won a lightweight division title 19 years ago. Mr. McErlean, who grew up in Sag Harbor, died suddenly on Nov. 23.

Linda Lawry, a well-known wine educator who retired in 2018 as director of the International Wine Center in Manhattan, died of cardiac arrest on Nov. 25. “For me, and for countless other wine professionals in New York City, Linda was the reason they pursued wine as a career," her successor at the center said.

Sue Bogart's entire professional career was devoted to teaching children. “She inspired students in Illinois, the state of her birth; New York, and, for the last 23 years of her career, East Orange, N.J., an experience she regarded as the most enriching of her professional life,” her family wrote.

Serena Vegessi Schick died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital of complications related to Covid-19 on Nov. 24. She was 42.

Samuel Joffe of Water Mill and New York City came to professional baking later in life but took to it with gusto, enrolling at the age of 65 in the International Pastry Arts Center and eventually opening Georgica Bakers in Amagansett.

Sandra P. Watson, a librarian at the Bridgehampton School who finished her career in the financial department of the Rogers Memorial Library in Southampton in the early 2000s, died on Nov. 2 of heart failure at the Davis Community Health Care Center in Wilmington, N.C.

Ralph Clinton George, for many years the head of the East Hampton Town Police marine division, volunteer ambulance driver, and town resident for nearly his entire life, died on Nov. 29 in Tewksbury, Mass. The cause was congestive heart failure. He was 92.

Visiting hours for Bruce J. Hoek of Springs will be held on Monday from 2 to 4 and from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A service is planned for Tuesday morning at 10 at the funeral home, with burial to follow at 11 at Fort Hill Cemetery in Montauk.

Alex Russo of East Hampton, a painter and poet, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 28. He was 99. An obituary will appear in a future issue.

The Montauk Chamber of Commerce and the Montauk Visitors Center will hold a Montauk Holiday market on the downtown green on Saturday from noon to 4:30 p.m. Santa will be there from 3 to 4 p.m.

Even though Stony Brook Southampton Hospital has the largest number of admitted Covid-19 patients it has seen in about two months — 11 people as of Tuesday afternoon, none in the intensive care unit — there is good news to be had, the hospital’s chief medical officer said this week.

The longstanding question of how to complete the upgrade of East Hampton Town’s emergency communications system moved forward on separate fronts on Tuesday when the town board agreed that the best spot to put temporary communications equipment appeared to be Maidstone Park.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation on Tuesday permitting Suffolk County to lease underwater lands previously ceded to it by New York State for the purpose of kelp and other seaweed cultivation.