Arrests were down in 2019, according to the East Hampton Town Police Department’s annual report, released on Monday. Over all, arrests were down sharply, to 607, from 809 in 2018, though calls for service were up slightly — 18,680 versus 18,079 the year before.     

East Hampton School District administrators and board members continued poring over their proposed 2020-21 spending plan on Tuesday, deciding to add some new, one-time expenses for the middle school.     

Oliver Longwell and Anne Argento of Santa Monica, Calif., were married on Dec. 26 at a small gathering of family and friends at the bride’s childhood home in Pasadena, Calif.

The Government Finance Officers Association, which represents public finance officials in the United States and Canada, has awarded the Town of East Hampton a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting for its fiscal year 2018 comprehensive annual financial report.     

Thomas W. Horn Sr., one of the most familiar faces on Sag Harbor Main Street, where he dutifully sat in front of the firehouse selling raffle tickets and paraphernalia to benefit the village’s Fire Museum on summer evenings, died on Tuesday evening at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Visiting hours for Scott R. Bennett of Amagansett, a longtime member of the hamlet’s Fire Department, a former East Hampton Town trustee, and a bayman who died on Tuesday, will be held on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here, and from 2 to 6 p.m.

Eugene L. Wishod, a lawyer who represented Robert David Lion Gardiner in his lengthy legal battle with relatives to regain access to Gardiner’s Island, died on Feb. 14 at home in Ridgefield, Conn.

Edith Frischmann Storm, a former Amagansett resident and administrative secretary at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, died on Feb. 13 at Fernandina Beach Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Fernandina Beach, Fla.    

George Walker Stewart of East Hampton, a graphic designer who had a passion for art, theater, and opera, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Saturday.

George James Gregory, a former part-time resident of Amagansett and retired college professor who loved fishing on Napeague, died last Thursday at Alaris Health at the Atrium in Jersey City. He was 83 and had complications of dementia.     

Jack Youngerman, an important American artist for more than six decades, died on Feb. 19 at Stony Brook University Hospital of complications from a fall.

Barbara Elaine Smith, a former model and restaurateur whose sense of style and love for entertaining helped her create a business empire that included books, a magazine, and a television show, died on Saturday of Alzheimer’s disease at home in East Hampton.

This week’s Long Island Collection Item of the Week looks at how President John Tyler’s many accidents led to important achievements, including marrying a Gardiner.

When Lisa Rooney appears in court next week she will do so in a different courtroom, before a different judge.     

The John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor is offering Mandarin lessons for children ages 5 to 8 beginning on Saturday.

After buying a new hot tub to replace an old one at her Guernsey Lane property, Barbara Zack noticed that someone had been using the new one over the last few months without her permission.

The case against Joseph A. Grippo, accused of stabbing and beating Robert Casado with a pickax in Montauk’s Kirk Park last June, is likely headed for trial.     

Indian Wells Tavern in Amagansett has been sold and will close on Sunday, the owners, Chris Eggert and Kevin Boles, announced in a statement on Instagram on Tuesday.

A 21-year-old man who East Hampton Town police said was driving drunk crashed a Cadillac into a utility pole early Saturday morning, breaking it in half.     

Unrepentant, Juan Figueroa, the owner of a modern house in Springs who hosted illegal for-profit parties there last summer, thought a $32,000 town settlement was well worth it. According to Page Six, he declared, “I would have paid anything to never see their unhappy resentful faces again.”