Robert (Christian) Anton Johnson, an actor and musical theater performer who later was a D.J. and program director for WLNG Radio, died in his sleep on Dec. 13 at the Westhampton Care Center. He was 85.

Anna Elizabeth Gorton Palmer, a nurse who worked for two decades at the East Hampton office of the Suffolk County Health Department, died on Dec. 7 in Beverly Hills, Fla. She was 94.

At a time when East Hampton Town faces “many challenges,” Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez was sworn in at the town board’s organizational meeting on Tuesday and began to implement changes at Town Hall and to set priorities for the coming year.