When Vinny Alversa, East Hampton High's baseball coach, was asked if he would be interested in entering his team in a high school tournament in Brookhaven between July 8 and July 12, the answer was an immediate yes.

The organizers of recent Black Lives Matter protests on the South Fork and many of their supporters have begun forming grassroots committees to generate ideas, build relationships, and ultimately make meaningful change.

Focusing on education, financial literacy, job security, career development, voter registration, housing, and relationships with local police, a diverse group of more than 25 people came together -- virtually, of course -- on Friday night to begin putting action behind the words and signs seen at demonstrations that continued this week across the East End.

Mark Humphrey of the Mark Humphrey Gallery in Southampton died last Thursday of complications of cancer at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 71.