Paid Notice: Michael George Cooke, 80, a Montauk resident for almost fifty years, passed away peacefully on November 24th at Treasure Coast Hospice in Florida after a brief illness.

Layered in a crazy quilt of vinyl and glue — on news boxes, barroom walls, men's room mirrors — bright logos and punchy slogans form a kind of sticker archaeology.

Edward F. McGuire Jr., an East Hampton native who worked for the Long Island Lighting Company for 32 years, died on Friday in Melbourne, Fla. He was 92.

Days after Mayor Jerry Larsen was sent a “cease and desist” letter from state, county, and town Democratic officials who asserted that his East Hampton Town Democrats for a New Town group constituted a “misuse of the Democratic Party name,” he and the chairwoman of the town’s Democratic Committee met and agreed to “lower the temperature.”