The East Hampton Town Police Department honored 17 of its own last week for "outstanding and dedicated acts of professional policing" in the year 2020.

Mary Jean Bennett, a former driver for the Schaefer school bus company, died on Jan. 13 at home in East Hampton Village. She was 82.

Yuris Murillo Cruz devoted her life to her children, to helping others, and to her faith. The Amagansett resident was a parishioner at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church who, said her family, "liked to brighten people's days with daily affirmations or prayers."

Yuris Murillo Cruz dedicó su vida a sus hijos, a su fe, a la ayuda de sus prójimos. Vivía en Amagansett y era feligresa de la iglesia católica Most Holy Trinity. Su familia la recuerda como una persona que “disfrutaba alegrando el día de sus cercanos con afirmaciones y oraciones diarias.”

Ms. Cammarata had a clothing business called Chuck's Vintage Inc. that was headquartered in L.A. with an office in New York City. She began coming to Sag Harbor with her future husband, Vincent Cammarata of Sag Harbor and New York City, in 2017. The two were married in July 2018.

An ad hoc meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee on Monday night, called to discuss the possibility of bringing home mail delivery to Amagansett, started off with questions about how many of the hamlet's 2,000 or so mailbox owners would actually want it, and ended an hour later with few answers.

Patrick Eugene O'Sullivan, who worked for the Postal Service in East Hampton Village for 21 years, died on Jan. 15 at Vitas Hospice in Sebring, Fla. He was 74 and had been ill for many years with congestive heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

With the Town of East Hampton and the town trustees' votes to execute agreements with the developers of the proposed South Fork Wind farm, and the state Public Service Commission's review of the project nearing conclusion, the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management has issued a draft environmental impact statement, a requirement of the National Environmental Policy Act.

Both Southampton Town and New York State have taken steps toward enacting new legislation on monitoring sand mines aimed at ensuring the safety of the underlying aquifer from contamination.

After two seal-related calls last week, two more calls on Friday afternoon brought officers to Georgica Beach in search of a stranded seal pup that people were reported to be "harassing."

A 20-year-old Wainscott man was arrested at his home on the evening of Jan. 19 and charged with criminal mischief, intent to damage property.

Coyotes, which have recently been seen on surveillance cameras on the East End, will be the subject of a South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center talk on Saturday at 10:30 a.m.

Costs are rising for retirement plans, Medicare reimbursements for current retirees, and compensation for employees who opt out of the district's health insurance plan, according to Jennifer Buscemi, the school business administrator.

The Montauk School Board took action on Tuesday on two fronts: an ongoing building project that will see its decades-old portable classrooms replaced with new ones, and setting up the potential to use the school as a Covid-19 vaccine distribution site.

The Eastern Long Island Academy of Applied Technology, which is operated by the Board of Cooperative Educational Services, or BOCES, will have online open house days for high school programs on Wednesday and next Thursday.

In collaboration with the John Jermain Memorial Library, the donation allowed the school to buy more than 125 books promoting "a better understanding of people, how others live, and cultures other than our own," said Betty Reynoso, the assistant principal, who co-chairs the school district's diversity and inclusion committee.

The New York Hysterical Society will host another round of comedy classes for children ages 10 to 16 in February through the Southampton Cultural Center.

Sag Harbor Village appears ready to hand Main Street and Long Wharf over to a private corporation to manage paid parking during the summer months in a major change taken without a trial run or enough public input before the contract stage.

This week, federal health officials may have confirmed something that has become increasingly clear as the pandemic drags on: Kids should be in classrooms.

A television news producer called the other day to ask about the Plain Sight Project, a joint effort to identify and document the enslaved people who lived on the East End from 1640 to 1830.

I think we need to talk about the depressing lack of a bar here in East Hampton.