The Pierson Capital Improvement Project, the Sag Harbor School District’s $40 million bond to renovate the high school, passed overwhelmingly Thursday night, 765 to 169.

“I am very proud of how they all stepped up in the biggest meet of the season,” the track team's head coach, Kevin Barry, said on the ride home from Suffolk Community College in Brentwood, where the team finished sixth.

Charles H. Deering of Springs, an Army veteran and member of East Hampton American Legion Post 419 whose pastimes included cooking, hunting, fishing, and photography, died on Dec. 22 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 98.