A week ago there was just one known case of Covid-19 among East Hampton High School students, but that number has since risen to six and all of them are connected to a single recent indoor gathering, school officials said this week. The district's John M. Marshall Elementary School also reported a new case in a fifth grader.

Jeremy Goncalves, a lifelong resident of Springs who loved the outdoors and traditional Bonac pastimes like fishing, clamming, and duck hunting, died suddenly at home on Oct. 25. The cause was a heart attack.

Robert H. Meinke, a builder, former East Hampton Town highway superintendent and assessor, and lifelong resident of East Hampton, died on Oct. 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 94.

Betty Sheldon Kane, who had been an agent at the former Sheila Devlin Real Estate firm here, died of heart failure on Oct. 20 in Scottsdale, Ariz. An Amagansett resident for many years, she was 87.