Evelyn (Cissy) Bradford Ritz of Bridgehampton, a former teacher in South Fork schools and real estate broker, died last Thursday at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 86.

Kryn Olson, a teacher at the Sag Harbor Elementary School for 25 years, died of a heart attack at home in Sag Harbor on April 3. She was 66.

Visiting hours for Margaret Ora-Lee Capozzola of Montauk will be held on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Robertaccio Funeral Home in Center Moriches.

Visiting hours for Josephine Crasky of Amagansett, who died on Friday, will be on April 24 from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

A plan to replace a large asphalt parking area, remove invasive species, and create bio-retention areas that could help filter and capture stormwater runoff before it reaches Lake Montauk moved ahead at the April 8 meeting of the East Hampton Town Board. The West Lake boat ramp, the project target, is large, denuded of vegetation, and its asphalt and hard-packed soil is on a pitch that sends it directly into the lake.

Tuesday is Earth Day, and there are a number of opportunities on the South Fork to celebrate and honor the planet as it contends with myriad environmental stresses.

The present town board may believe that any project it devises is benign, but the members fail to understand that a future board could misuse the relaxation of rules having to do with community-centered projects.

The Trump administration has declared all-out war on higher education, and America’s role as the world leader of scientific and medical progress is at stake.

A feisty young Jewish woman from New Jersey, Helen S. Rattray became the editor and publisher of The Star after her first husband, Everett Rattray, died in 1980 at the age of 47.

A tale of intense culture shock, of seeing America anew.

Willie’s Roadhouse has a new fan.

We need to show Americans a higher power that has a story they can claim as their own. We need to show that God is empowering ordinary people to do God’s work in the face of dark forces.

A springtime flowering of reader comment.

A push for a bike path and a plan for a recreational park. This is how it was.

Your weekly list of high school sporting competition coming down the pike.

Shari Goddard Shambaugh is a self-taught painter whose passion for nature is reflected in her landscapes and floral paintings.

In a new adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" from the National Theatre Live series, Andrew Scott plays all eight characters in a production that offers "a new way of seeing into the heart" of the play.

The Parrish's new exhibition, "Shirin Neshat: Born of Fire," is a survey of groundbreaking work by the renowned Iranian-born artist, who illuminates what it means to exist between two cultures.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host Laurie Anderson for its benefit, a beading workshop led by a Shinnecock artist, and a Native painter reflecting on his work.

The Art Groove at Ashawagh Hall will feature two exhibitions of work by local artists, music, dancing, a book signing, and a short film.