Tops for the Pierson Whalers of Sag Harbor in the Class D (small schools) state championship race Saturday in Queensbury was a seventh grader, Evelyn Rizzo, who walked away with an all-state medal around her neck.

Warren Strugatch, a writer and journalist, talks about working with Hans Van de Bovenkamp to create the Dutch-born sculptor's memoir.

Jeffrey Meyers, a literary biographer, had an epistolary friendship with James Salter of Bridgehampton for years, but his assessment maintains a certain distance.

Keith Reddin will deliver an appreciation of James Salter on Friday at 5 p.m. at the Nathaniel Rogers House.