Alexander Russo, who bought a house in Springs in 1958, has 84 works documenting World War II in the Navy Art Collection in Washington, D.C. He died on Nov. 28 at the age of 99.

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge last week dismissed a suit brought against the Ross School, its then-chief administrator, and four of its faculty members by a former student, who claimed he was bullied and alleged the teachers were negligent in their chaperoning duties during an overseas field trip in 2020.

John Hatleberg, widely considered the world's foremost counterfeiter of famous diamonds, will be the next speaker in Knowledge Fridays, the monthly lecture series at The Church in Sag Harbor, on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Sussman weaves together tales of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, how they put their lives on the line to oppose a maniacal regime.