Claudine Helene Michel of East Hampton was a talented sketch artist who would often draw portraits for friends and family “or render beautiful East End landscapes as a hobby."

Janet Katherine Windsor Hand, an artist, died of breast cancer on Friday at home in Wainscott. She was 74 and had been ill for eight months. 

Upon her marriage to Stephen Baldwin Bromley in 1943, Patricia Hamlin Bromley was in Life Magazine as the face of Woodbury Facial Soap, which was said to add to add a glow to her already exquisite complexion.

Christina J. Tercy, who had lived in East Hampton for 50 years, died on Friday at the Yorktown Assisted Living Residence in Cortland, N.Y.

The owners of an oceanfront property in a coastal erosion hazard area, who were denied permission and variances by the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals to raze their house and construct a larger one, have asked the New York State Supreme Court to overturn the board’s determination.

This week's Long Island Collection Item of the Week examines business dealings between a formerly enslaved woman and Henry Packer Dering of Sag Harbor.

Milton Creagh, a motivational speaker and the author of the book “Nobody Wants Your Child,” has some life lessons to share.

A funeral for Joann Jordan, formerly of Fieldview Lane and the Circle in East Hampton, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Saturday at 11 a.m.

A Flanders man used a shovel to dig up hundreds of white pine saplings from property on Old Northwest Road in East Hampton late last month.

The legalization of recreational use of marijuana for adults is, for the second year in a row, included in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s executive budget. 

Looking ahead a few weeks, a mobile mammography van will be on hand at the Bridgehampton Firehouse on Feb. 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., offering breast cancer screenings by appointment.

The Montauk Friends of Erin’s 17th annual corned beef and cabbage dinner will be held at Shagwong Tavern on March 7 from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

A spaghetti and meatball dinner at the Montauk Firehouse on Saturday will raise money for Randy Hoffman, a volunteer and paid critical care emergency medical technician who is recovering from spinal surgery complications.

A car with a baby on board crashed into the Surf Lodge in Montauk on Sunday morning, and the driver, the child’s father, took off with her in her car seat without reporting the accident. East Hampton Town police found them later at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Anthony Palumbo, a Republican New York State assemblyman who has served the North Fork for the last seven years, called his bid for the State Senate “a natural progression.”

The Amagansett School is building its 2020-2021 budget around the possibility that 30 new students will arrive — 15 in the school itself and 15 older children in the East Hampton School District — once the Gansett Meadow affordable housing complex just down the road is completed.     

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will introduce children to some of their interesting insect neighbors during an arts and crafts program on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

When Douglas Moore arrived at his South Endicott Place house on Jan. 31, after being away for about a month, he found a pickup truck in the driveway and that his bed had been slept in.

Albany should have included a funding mechanism to ease the burden on local jurisdictions as they figure out how to cope with the increased paperwork. This is an issue that can be solved.

Volunteering is its own reward — and keeps you healthy and active, too. Finding new ways to connect people to projects would benefit everyone.