Linda and Jerry Sheehan of Springs have announced the engagement of their daughter, Shannon Lee Sheehan, to Nicholas Ray Samot, the son of Karen Drolet and Raymond Samot of East Hampton.

Robert G. Goelet, a business and civic leader, naturalist, and philanthropist, who with his wife, Alexandra Creel Goelet, had been steward of Gardiner’s Island in East Hampton since the 1980s, died on Oct. 8 at his home in New York City.

Eugene H. Thommen Jr., an aviation electrician who worked on the Apollo 11 moon landing mission, died on Oct. 9 at the University Hospital in San Antonio, Tex., of complications from a head injury sustained during a fall. The longtime East Hampton resident was 82.

Fire destroyed a Jeep during the morning commute in East Hampton on Thursday morning. 

John C. Specht, a longtime local bayman who also worked as a carpenter, painter, and groundskeeper, died on Oct. 4 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital at the age of 78.

Joanne Conforti, an advertising executive who split her time between Manhattan and East Hampton, died at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan on Oct. 8. She was 75 and had Lewy body dementia.

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When Joe Amato, Pierson’s boys cross-country coach, crossed the line following the arduous Serpent’s Back (run-mountain-bike-run) duathlon Sunday, he said he’d won “because nobody’s here.”

A win Monday would have enabled East Hampton High’s field hockey team to stay on the cusp of a playoff berth, according to its coach, Nicole Ficeto, though Port Jefferson, which had been outplayed for 56 minutes, dashed that hope in the 57th with a goal that resulted from a corner play, the Royals’ first corner play of the game.

East Hampton High’s boys and girls soccer teams and its boys and girls volleyball teams had wins this past week, while the girls swimming team lost 93-82 Sayville-Bayport, the defending league champion, 13 of whose points were awarded for diving.

Teams made up of East Hampton School District teachers are to vie Wednesday on the high school’s turf field in a fund-raising “Kicks For Cancer” game whose proceeds are to go to the Hauppauge High School-based organization founded 11 years ago to help families contending with the disease.

Despite the East Hampton High School field hockey team boasted the highest-scoring duo in Bonac history, they were swept by Rocky Point in a first-round county playoff game in 1994.

Bonac's field hockey and girls soccer teams head to Harborfields on Friday, girls volleyball team will play at the Horseheads invitational tournament Saturday, and the girls swimming will hop in the pool at Hauppauge on Monday.

Just as the Norway rat may be the most adept of all the mammals, gulls — in particular, the herring gull — may be the most adept of all the birds.

It was déjà vu all over again and again. The weather, especially the wind, has been relentless of late. It started early on Oct. 8 and finally blew itself out by Sunday. Chicago may be dubbed the Windy City, but the eastern end of Long Island can certainly hold its own when accounting for prolonged periods of gusty weather.

Forest rangers with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation are searching for the person responsible for the destruction and theft of a sign at the Otis Pike Preserve West in Manorville.

“Chicken Soup for the Soul” meets “The Twilight Zone” is the vibe in John McCaffrey’s new short volume of 11 brief stories.

Vija Celmins is a visual seductress. From her early treatment of everyday objects to the water and sky images that have become her trademark, she has fashioned an art that skirts the line between representation and abstraction in a way that is mesmerizing.

The director Brian De Palma was in East Hampton to receive the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award and spend an hour lobbing anecdotes, opinions, and snippets of film industry gossip back and forth with Alec Baldwin on Saturday afternoon at a packed Guild Hall.

Audiences at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor can look forward to two nights of laughter and an afternoon of drama this weekend with a visit from Lisa Lampanelli, a new all-star comedy show, and a screening of the 1961 film “A Raisin in the Sun.”