Evelyn Irene Hansen, who worked as a bookkeeper here for many years, died at home in Springs on Jan. 6. She was 77.

Rafael Rojas, a native of Colombia who worked at an estate off Route 114 in East Hampton for over 30 years, died at the age of 90 on Jan. 10 in Winchester, Mass.

With some commercial fishing vessels unable to get into Montauk Harbor during low tide, Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine has asked Col. Alex Young of the United States Army Corps of Engineers “to utilize emergency funding to dredge the Montauk Inlet and deepen the channel to at least 17 feet.”

With some commercial fishing vessels unable to get into Montauk Harbor during low tide, Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine has asked Col. Alex Young of the United States Army Corps of Engineers “to utilize emergency funding to dredge the Montauk Inlet and deepen the channel to at least 17 feet.”

Nine Pierson High School varsity basketball players, five of them seniors, have left the team, frustrated by the behavior of the head coach, Dan White. Some parents have called for his removal, while some players who remain on the team have spoken up in support of him.

A law that would have protected horseshoe crabs in New York State from harvest for bait or biomedical purposes starting Jan. 1 was vetoed in December by Gov. Kathy Hochul, leaving many environmentalists dismayed.

In a split decision, the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals approved a nearly 9,000-square-foot house to be located at 325 Bluff Road, adjacent to the Atlantic Double Dunes Preserve in Amagansett. “This is a model application, and I applaud this application,” said Roy Dalene, the zoning board’s chairman, who voted for approval.

The East Hampton Library receives upward of thousands of books each week through donations. How they are handled, for fun and profit, for collectors and other libraries, has been a revelation.

Fires are top of mind among our readers.

The wisdom of the caretakers at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, who had proactively set about creating firebreaks and irrigating their property before the latest conflagrations began, offers a lesson for the South Fork.

While Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State speech Tuesday offered some good news for natural resources, organizations involved in fighting climate change were disappointed.

Along the eastward shore of Napeague Harbor a length of rusted pipe pokes out of a dune. This pipe has an interesting history.

I don’t quite know how it came to be that my parents’ culinary habits were on the advanced side for the 1970s and its sesame-seed buns and Fresca.

A mild cold snap here conjures a real cold snap way up north.

Finding resolve and relief in the music of Peggy Lee.

Chris Vaccaro, the Suffolk County Sports Hall of Fame’s president, announced this week that Howard and Kenny Wood, who led East Hampton High School basketball teams to state championships and played professionally, are among those who will be inducted into the Hall on May 29 in St. James.

Student-athletes Zone awarded, remembering Martin Quigley, and more from the sports pages of yore.

This week's schedule of high school sports matchups.

Realty transfers. The latest.

The Church in Sag Harbor has two new exhibitions, one devoted to Tom Hanks's typewriters, the other to the artist Sam Messer and his connections to a community of prominent writers and artists.