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.”

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.