Patricia Smith, a speech pathologist and chairwoman of the committee on special education at the Bridgehampton School, died on Sunday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 74.

Eleanor Osborne Ratsep, the president of the East Hampton Library Board in the 1990s, died on Jan. 17 at the age of 93. A funeral service will be held at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Friday at 11 a.m.

Peter L. Rothholz, the founder of Peter Rothholz Associates, a public relations agency, died on Dec. 20. A former summertime resident of Springs, he was 95.

Ricky Schellinger, a maintenance man at the East Hampton mobile home park on Oakview Highway for two decades, died of cancer on Sunday. He was 70.

Visiting hours for Carolyn Cerchiai of East Hampton will be held Friday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. Ms. Cerchiai, who was 80, died on Jan. 22.

Visiting hours for James Emmett Mabry of East Hampton will take place on Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, with a “home-going” service to follow at 1. Mr. Mabry died on Jan. 22 at the age of 75.

Bonac’s third-place boys swimming team finished the league season at 4-2, and the boys were on fire on the track. The boys basketball team lost its seventh straight, but the girls won one.

The Hurricanes, the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter’s youth swim team, are beginning an especially crucial part of the season, during which they will compete at the state and national levels.

It’s been four years since Richie Daunt has been in the ring. Now, with his 35th birthday on the horizon, the wiry, hard-hitting welterweight from Montauk is giving it one more go.

Much basketball in store this week, and the Bonackers take part in winter track championships in Brentwood this weekend.

Environmental problems on the East End, from lobster die-offs in the Sound to pesticides to overdevelopment, come to a head in the year 2000. And much more from our past coverage.

More, more, more! Letters, that is, varied and various.

Try telling a group of iceboaters that the climate hasn’t changed. Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s, there was ice enough to host racing regattas on Mecox Bay.

It is worth taking a closer look at what the Retreat does to understand the depth of the harm a funding freeze would bring.

Nearby residents could rightly be concerned about the noise a public brewery near the intersection of Springs-Fireplace Road and Fort Pond Boulevard could create.

As stupid as renaming the Gulf of Mexico is, it reminds me of a similar effort of my own right here in East Hampton.

You employ the words “cope,” “coping,” or “copium” when another person has expressed feelings and desires clearly but you think their actual argument is feeble.

Goodbye to a one-of-a-kind family pet.

Before the fire — memories of an idyllic California childhood.

The Springs School Board held its first of three budget meetings for the 2025-26 spending plan last Thursday, with Sam Schneider, the assistant superintendent of the business office, walking through school accomplishments and the reallocation of expenses.