Barrett Franklin Kalb, a pilot, lawyer, and entrepreneur formerly of Amagansett, died on Dec. 11 in North Carolina. He was 94.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the governors of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have written to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to demand rescission of the Trump administration’s Dec. 22 pause of leases for five wind farms under construction off the Northeast coast.

A new petition started by a group calling itself Springs Residents Against Elite Towers seeks to stop a long-planned cell tower at the Springs Fire Department on Fort Pond Boulevard.

While there is still no official cause in a summertime death of a woman at the Montauk Yacht Club, a search for answers through the media has revealed new details, including from the man who was on the boat with her that night.