Oyster farmers denounced efforts to restrict their activities in Gardiner's and Peconic Bays and boaters pressed their complaints that the floating gear some farmers use presents a hazard to navigation and an aesthetic nuisance when the Suffolk County Shellfish Aquaculture Lease Program's 10-year review board met on Friday.

An argument ensued at Starbucks on Friday morning after an employee asked a man to put on his mask. The man told police that "he had it on, but it keeps falling down." The report also noted that "he was leaving to catch the bus."

You may or may not be able to teach an old dog new tricks, but you sure as heck can teach an older adult how to use newfangled technology.

Mary Jean Bennett of East Hampton Village died on Jan. 13 and was buried on Monday at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church Cemetery on Cedar Street in East Hampton. An obituary for her will appear in a future issue of The Star.

Yuris Murillo Cruz of Amagansett died on Jan. 13 of injuries suffered in a hit-and-run accident in that hamlet. A funeral Mass for the 36-year-old mother of two was said on Tuesday at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church. An obituary will be published in a future issue.

Sean Doyle, a native of Ireland and a resident of East Hampton for over four decades, died on Jan. 2 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 86. A spring memorial will be announced, and an obituary will appear in a future issue.

A prominent philanthropist, she was a tireless advocate for others, children above all, her family said, devoted to global public health and serving as a powerful voice for those in need. Concerned with politics as well, she campaigned on behalf of candidates and civic causes in which she believed deeply.

Dr. Martin Shepard, a psychiatrist, author, and, with his wife, Judith Shepard, trailblazing publisher, died with his family around him at home in Noyac on Dec. 17. He was 86 and had been ill for a short time.

Betty A. Vail loved East Hampton and told her daughter, Marci Vail, that the best day of her life was "the day that she and her parents returned to East Hampton from Baltimore, where her father worked in an airplane factory during World War II."

Edward Charles Kominski, who owned and operated a painting and wallpapering business here for almost 40 years, died of end-stage kidney disease at home in East Hampton on Jan. 3. He was 87 and had been ill for 10 years. "In his final days he was visited by numerous loving friends," said his granddaughter Katheryn Cooke-Michel.

East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen announced a plan to reconfigure parking spaces on Newtown Lane and along the perimeter of the Reutershan parking lot from parallel to angled drive-in parking at a board meeting on Friday.

A longtime fixture in both the cultural and horticultural life of East Hampton, Mary G. Clarke, who also lived in San Antonio, Tex., died on Jan. 13 at her house here. Her son Jonathan said her wish was to be with her family in her final weeks. She was 70 and had been diagnosed with cancer two months ago.

Gerald Cummins, a respected political consultant who was a campaign adviser to John F. Kennedy in 1960 and ran Hugh Carey's successful gubernatorial campaign in 1974, inherited his passion for politics from his father and grandfather, the latter of whom had been a writer for President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Lenore Brien of Rockville Centre and East Hampton died of complications of cancer at home in Rockville Centre on Jan. 11. Her family was with her. She was 73.

Eugene David Beckwith, a former Montauk Fire Department commissioner, died in his sleep on Jan. 2 at the Long Island State Veterans Home in Stony Brook. He was 95.

Disagreements about charging for parking in the commercial district, the financing of a centralized sewer system, and increasing fees for lockers at Main Beach erupted into heated discussions at an East Hampton Village Board meeting on Friday.

Projects that will protect or improve ground and surface waters may be eligible for funding under the water quality portion of the town's community preservation fund.

East Hampton Town's Anti-Bias Task Force condemned the Jan. 6 insurrection at the United States Capitol, rejecting "in the strongest terms possible the despicable symbols of hate on display that day, including nooses, Confederate flags, and neo-Nazi slogans."

"We tried to come up with something fun during Covid," Mayor Jerry Larsen said.

A provision of East Hampton Village law that prohibited its inns from holding special events outdoors was struck down by State Supreme Court Justice Martha L. Luft in a Jan. 6 ruling in a lawsuit the owners of the Hedges Inn, a popular wedding venue, brought against the village.