In Children’s Book Land, Susan Verde is back addressing emotional well-being, while Billy Baldwin’s all about Halloween.

“A ray of hope” for East Hampton Town’s Little League baseball players, coaches, and parents appeared on Saturday when ground was broken for the playing fields near the former Child Development Center of the Hamptons on Stephen Hand’s Path.

Marlena Gershowitz, a Southampton resident who was a donor to the Montauk Playhouse Community Foundation and the Montauk Medical Center, died at home on Sept. 26. The cause was lung cancer. She was 79.

Kathleen Mary Cole, who grew up in Wainscott, died on Oct. 3 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 74 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and emphysema.