East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc has found the petition for a vote to form an incorporated village of Wainscott legally insufficient.

It was one of those things you think could happen anywhere but in your own town, but Covid-19 proved it would not discriminate, starting with its official arrival here in March 2020, when the county's first Covid-19 patient was admitted to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

East Hampton High School is seeking adults from the local community to perform practice interviews with students on April 7 and 8. The goal is to help students acclimate to answering job or college interview questions, as well as teach them general communication skills they will need in everyday life.

East Hampton Town and Stony Brook Medicine are offering Covid vaccines today, Friday, March 5, for those 65 years or older at the East Hampton Town clinic on Stephen Hand's Path. Several hundred appointments were still available as of Friday morning.

It's hard to find any sector of society that wasn't impacted by Covid-19 in the year since the county's first virus case was reported, and first-person experiences and expert opinions, documented here, suggest that the pandemic may leave its mark for years to come.

For those who need help coping with pandemic-related losses and other issues, a number of organizations and medical facilities continue to offer resources. Here are a few.

The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Office is once again hosting the Say Something Essay Contest for high school students to highlight the importance of speaking up when a peer is distressed or at risk for self-harm.

If all goes according to plan, by March 15 the vast majority of South Fork students between Montauk and Bridgehampton will be back in school in person, five days a week. The move by several local districts represents a shift back toward what school used to look like, but with the benefit of pandemic hindsight.

A public hearing on a petition to incorporate Wainscott as a village closed last Thursday, and now a deadline looms for East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc to make a decision on its legal sufficiency. Mr. Van Scoyoc is bound by state law to do so within 10 days after the hearing is closed.

Not many people can say they have been to Antarctica, but can you imagine sailing there on a wooden ship with cloth sails, navigating by compass and stars?

All too often, it seems, the story of Covid-19 is told through statistics and trends. Beyond those numbers are hundreds of thousands of human beings — real people — who lost their lives to the pandemic across the world. As told to The Star by their families, here are some of their stories from the East End.

Developers of the South Fork Wind farm began performing property boundary surveys on Long Island Rail Road rights of way this week.

Equipment installed at each of three hubs — possibly LTV's headquarters in Wainscott, the Montauk Firehouse, and the Windmill Village housing complex in East Hampton — could allow residents to gather in smaller numbers without crowding into Town Hall, where social distancing protocols may limit occupancy into the foreseeable future.

Eleven teams — teams that normally would play in the fall — began practicing Monday, namely football, boys and girls volleyball, boys and girls soccer, boys and girls cross-country, girls tennis, golf, girls swimming, and field hockey.

This is the second year the Ellen Hermanson Foundation is holding a benefit virtually, because of the pandemic. This year's event, at 6 p.m. on Saturday, will feature a knockout lineup of female comedians, singers, and other performers. As always, the foundation will honor women in the community who have made a difference.

On Friday, the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center announced "Valiente.Inteligente.Valioso.Ambicioso," or VIVA, a new Latinx program aimed at "embracing our community with English and Spanish classes, translation assistance, family counseling, and legal services."

Representative Lee Zeldin is exploring a run for governor of New York, he said on Tuesday amid mounting trouble for Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, whose actions with respect to deaths from Covid-19 infection in nursing homes was recently compounded by multiple accusations of sexual harassment.

Several longtime members of the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society, including former presidents, have resigned from the society in recent weeks, following the announcement of the 125-year-old women's group that it had hired a man to be its first executive director.

Vincent Joseph Wolfe, the founder and owner of Wolfie's Tavern in Springs, died of congestive heart failure at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Feb. 17. He was 89.

A proposed district would include the Long Wharf shopping plaza, the Breakwater Yacht Club, and properties on Bay and West Water Streets including the Beacon restaurant and the West Water Street Shops, a more than 15,000-square-foot building that will be the future home of the Bay Street Theater.