In the wake of the March 8 and 9 brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the county’s first southern pine beetle symposium, which happens on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at Suffolk Community College’s Riverhead campus.
Evelyn (Cissy) Bradford Ritz of Bridgehampton, a former teacher in South Fork schools and real estate broker, died last Thursday at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 86.
Kryn Olson, a teacher at the Sag Harbor Elementary School for 25 years, died of a heart attack at home in Sag Harbor on April 3. She was 66.
Visiting hours for Margaret Ora-Lee Capozzola of Montauk will be held on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Robertaccio Funeral Home in Center Moriches.
