The next installment of the LTV series “East End Underground,” filmed in front of a live audience at the public access studio in Wainscott, will feature blues and gospel music in celebration of Black History Month.

A Flanders man who confessed late last month to stealing trees from a Peconic Land Trust property in Northwest has been hit with more charges.

The sample area spans land between Three Mile Harbor Road and Accabonac Road, bounded by Copeces Lane to the north and Floyd Street to the south.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman, and Shelter Island Supervisor Gerry Siller have endorsed Southampton Town Councilman Tommy John Schiavoni’s bid for the New York State Senate seat.

On Feb. 10 Harry G. Lester died of congestive heart failure at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. The last member of his immediate family, he was 93 and had been ill for five days.     

Wesley David Miller, a former East End real estate broker and developer, died of organ failure on Feb. 12 at a hospital in Miami. He was 90 and had been ill for five years.     

Robert T. Schorr of Montauk, a retired police officer, died of heart failure on Sunday at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 93.

Marianne Charlotte Menonna, a former cook at Herb’s Market in Montauk, died on Feb. 10 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care on Quiogue.     

Douglas Alfred Glazebrook, a former Sag Harbor Village police officer and Southampton Town parks and recreation employee, died in his sleep on Jan. 2 at home in Canton, Ohio. He was 67 and had experienced complications of diabetes.     

Tomorrow at 4 p.m. for Black History Month, the library will show “A Ballerina’s Tale,” a documentary about Misty Copeland, the first African-American to be named principal dancer for the American Ballet Theatre.

Someone has been using a backyard grill on Laforest Lane while the owner is away, according to a report filed on Monday. The owner said he found the grill in a different condition than when he left it.

We find ourselves agreeing with Montauk business owners who object to a bike-share company that would like to set up shop there, so to speak. They say the start-up would eat into their rentals, which in at least one case, the Montauk Cycle Company, could be as much as a third of its revenue.

Cannabis is coming. That was one of the key takeaways from a recent forum in Sag Harbor on the future of marijuana cultivation and products in New York State.

Suffolk residents who took advantage of a septic-system replacement program deserved to be upset about having to pay income taxes on grants they received from the county.

Almost everyone paying attention knows the Lehman family went from rags (in their case raw cotton) to riches and then collapsed into bankruptcy in 2008, dragging the national economy with it. 

For the third week, I have had an article in the paper about East Hampton’s history of slavery. This is part of a much larger project started about three years ago to identify every enslaved person who ever lived in the town.

“Without some understanding of Puritanism, and that at its source, there is no understanding of America,” Perry Miller said in the foreword to “The American Puritans: Their Prose and Poetry,” a little book I’ve long had around, but have, until now, never read.

My close friend Lisa sobbed in the doorway of her apartment last Wednesday night, and the only sustenance I could offer her was a warm embrace and some of my mother-in-law’s homemade chili. Even so, it felt inadequate and I started to cry, too. The chili was hot and hearty, but we, distraught over the death of a friend, could barely taste it.

A new vigil for social change takes shape at the windmill in Sag Harbor. It meets every Friday.

The Baker House 1650 in East Hampton Village will give book lovers a chance to hobnob with six novelists as part of a weekend getaway package from Friday, Feb. 28, to March 1.