Jawahir Jairam, who worked at Southampton Hospital as a nurse for 27 years and lived in Montauk for 50, died at East End Hospice in Westhampton Beach on Sept. 13. He had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and other health problems, and would have turned 81 later this month.

Lani Kennefick, whose given name was Mary Elaine, died on Sept. 3 in Portland, Me., cared for by her daughter and her mother, Mary Laura Kennefick. She was 59 and had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few weeks earlier.

Following the Sept. 15 elections for mayor and two seats on the East Hampton Village Board, Mayor Jerry Larsen and his NewTown Party running mates Chris Minardi and Sandra Melendez, the newly-elected trustees, were sworn in at the village board meeting on Friday.

Arthur P. Dodge of East Hampton and Crystal River, Fla., a descendant of a 1661 English buyer of Block Island, died of complications of Covid-19 at home here on Sept. 11. He was 78 and had been in declining health since a bout with the virus earlier this year.