Leon Goodman of Bay Shore set out nine days ago to walk the entire length of Long Island — from the foot of the 59th Street Bridge in Queens to the Montauk Point Lighthouse — in an act of support for the Black Lives Matter movement.

Not so long ago Springs residents and many others in East Hampton Town were fearing the worst for the future of the combined Springs Library and Historical Society, but now it looks as though the mid-1800s building housing them may even get a new cedar roof this year or early next.

That the former Morpurgo house, a.k.a. the Captain John Hulbert house, hadn't been sold yet amid the pandemic was serendipitous for its owners, Max and Michelle Breskin, who, with their three children, are its first legal occupants in many years. Once a wreck, now tip-top after a major restoration completed by Breskin Development, it is on the market for just under $6.5 million.

Jacqueline Loomis Quillen, a pioneer in the wine retail and importing business, died on Oct. 1, surrounded by her family, in the East Hampton house where her paternal grandfather, Dr. Alfred Lee Loomis, lived long ago. The family attributed her death to heart failure.

Christine Elizabeth Hensler, a staffer for many years at the Flowers by Beth store in Amagansett, died of complications of lung cancer on Sept. 12 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 64 and had been ill for about seven months.

Richard V. Mendelman, who was for 50 years an active member of Long Island's marine business community and an advocate for clean water, died at home on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, East Hampton, on Oct. 8. The cause was cardiopulmonary arrest as a consequence of Parkinson's disease with Lewy body dementia. He was 89.

John F. McCluskey, an Amagansett native who loved to travel the world, who loved his dog, and who loved his family above all, died unexpectedly on Sunday in Athens, Greece, where he lived part time. The cause was heart failure. Mr. McCluskey was 33.

The 10 to 16-year-old members of the South Fork Natural History Museum's Young Environmentalists Society are working to be a force for change in their own community and the broader world.

Terry Schutte, a pilot and director of operations for several private jet companies, died of respiratory illness on Sept. 28 at the Cleveland Clinic Martin Health facility in Stuart, Fla. The East Hampton native was 74.

As Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone continues to blast Washington, D.C., lawmakers for inaction on a Covid-19 assistance plan that could help municipalities, one of the impacts of that lag is that taxpayers in public school districts are already footing the bill for the rising costs of preventing the virus's spread in classrooms and hallways.

Bernard Green of East Hampton, a hairstylist who co-owned a salon in New York City and was later a leading stylist on the South Fork, died on Oct. 6 at N.Y.U. Langone Hospital in the city. The cause was complications of surgery. He was 57.

Joseph Serino of Manhattan, 66, was riding his bicycle on Toilsome Lane in East Hampton Saturday when he was struck by a 2005 Mercedes-Benz.

A look at the police blotter for the week of Oct. 15.

East Hampton Town police said that on Oct. 3, Henry Lupercio of Montauk slapped an unidentified woman in the face and mouth and punched her in the back of the head with a closed fist, in violation of an order of protection served against him last year.

Interactive art at Guild Hall, family workshops at the Parrish Art Museum, activity kits from the John Jermain Memorial Library, and more.

Bill Henderson’s “The Family Bible” is a collection of plainspoken, candid poems centering on his struggle with the fundamentalist, literalist religion of his childhood and youth, with its contradictions of a loving and angry God and stories of kindness and violence.

Alastair Gordon talks up the Barnes Coy architecture firm and interviews a principal, and Grace Schulman headlines a celebration of Turtle Point Press via Canio’s Books.

The New York State Health Department has charged In the Know Experiences, the concert promoter involved in the Chainsmokers concert held in Water Mill in July, with violating public health law. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that the state will seek $20,000 in fines for holding a "nonessential gathering" and failing to enforce the wearing of face coverings.

The New York State Health Department has charged In the Know Experiences, the concert promoter involved in the Chainsmokers concert held in Water Mill in July, with violating public health law. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last week that the state will seek $20,000 in fines for holding a "nonessential gathering" and failing to enforce the wearing of face coverings.

The department of stolen surfboards caught a break this summer when a good Samaritan did something that you don't normally see in a story about a missing board. He returned it.