While the great blue heron, the largest heron in North America, is not our only winter heron (black-crowned night herons roost locally all winter), it’s the only one you’re likely to see.

The account books of the Amagansett Mill Company, kept by John Baker from 1829 through 1841, are featured this week.

Tony Walton, who worked for more than six decades in theater, film, television, ballet, and opera, died at his apartment in New York City on March 2 of complications of a stroke. He was 87.

E. Vincent Wyatt Jr., an expert in industrial production and engineering materials who held several patents and who grew up in East Hampton, died of a heart attack on March 2 at the Greenfield Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Massachusetts. He was 92.