Paula P. Trentham, who grew up on Talmage Lane in East Hampton and worked for the East Hampton School District for many years, died on Sept. 29 at Community Hospice and Palliative Care's Earl B. Hadlow Center for Caring in Jacksonville, Fla. She was 86 and had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease nine years ago.

In Sag Harbor on Friday morning at the Highway Department, there appeared to be a botched robbery, said police. Several tools were reportedly removed from the Highway Department building, the gate to which was left unlocked and open, as were a number of Highway Department trucks in the parking lot.

The session on Thursday, Oct. 29, will be held virtually, starting at 6:30 p.m. Comments can be called in to 351-888-6331. The event will air live on LTV's Channel 22 and via a livestream at ltveh.org.

The defendant reportedly took a "floral Coach wallet containing approximately $2,500 in cash and nine credit cards" on the evening of Aug. 24 from a house on Collins Avenue near North Main Street.

For communities with lower Covid-19 infection rates right now (like many of ours here on the East End) compared to hot spots elsewhere in the country, it can be particularly tempting to seize an opportunity for normality and plan to trick-or-treat as usual. But this could be risky.

Early voting ahead of Election Day, Nov. 3, begins on Saturday and continues through Nov. 1. In East Hampton, it will be held at the Windmill Village housing complex at 219 Accabonac Road, and in Southampton on the Stony Brook Southampton campus at 70 Tuckahoe Road.

The character-driven second book by the singer-songwriter turned novelist Suzzy Roche is set in a Catholic enclave in Pennsylvania in 1961. It is a social satire with sympathy, realism with softened edges.

The M.F.A. program in creative writing and literature at Stony Brook Southampton will welcome the poet Major Jackson for an online reading and talk on Oct. 28 at 7 p.m.

East Hampton Village's nonresident beach permits and the cost of daily parking at Main Beach and Two Mile Hollow Beach will both increase for the 2021 summer season — permits by 25 percent and daily passes by nearly 70 percent.

Jerry Larsen started putting his stamp on village government last week by hiring a new village administrator, choosing new chairs for appointed boards, and laying the groundwork to create a new office of business and tourism, and to bring the code enforcement office under the oversight of the Police Department.

The Bridgehampton School District is circulating an online survey to gather feedback and information from its families for administrators' planning purposes.

Laurie Baum has resigned from her post as Sag Harbor School District business administrator, a position she has held since Dec. 17, 2019. Her last day with Sag Harbor will be Dec. 1.

Lucia Beeton, a senior at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, has earned recognition as a "commended student" in the 2021 National Merit Scholarship Program. This honor means she placed among the top 50,000 scorers on the PSAT in her junior year, out of 1.5 million total test-takers.

Candidates are being sought for the Student Council officers at the Montauk School in grades five through eight. Sign-up forms and campaign posters are due tomorrow to the club advisers, Shawn Ward and Jennifer Jamet. More information is online at montaukschool.org.

Fun books and movies just in time for Halloween, plus Spanish and sculpture classes, virtual fun from the Hampton Library, and lots for teens in East Hampton.

One of the pleasures of "reviewing" a new Ina Garten cookbook is that her cookbooks are pretty much flawless. So it's not a chore or a review, it's just me with a cup of tea or a fancy cocktail, making notes and muttering to myself "THAT sounds good!"

After the pandemic put an end to her career as an event planner in New York City, Samantha Perlstein quickly cooked up a plan B and launched a healthy, high-end brand of granola that's been selling out at East End farmers markets.

The latest restaurant news and specials and a correction

A recently published monograph, "Skolnick: Architecture + Design Partnership" (Pointed Leaf Press), explores the 40-year legacy of the East End architect Lee Skolnick and his firm. Alastair Gordon caught up with him to talk about his practice, his design aesthetic, and his collaborations with artists and cultural institutions. 

With the coming retirement of State Senator Kenneth P. LaValle, eastern Long Island voters have a renewed opportunity to gain a more active and responsive representative in the New York Legislature’s upper chamber.