Louise Demmers Carlson, who moved to East Hampton in 1958, died on Oct. 17 in Eugene, Ore. She was 98.

Evelyn Irene Hansen, who worked as a bookkeeper here for many years, died at home in Springs on Jan. 6. She was 77.

Rafael Rojas, a native of Colombia who worked at an estate off Route 114 in East Hampton for over 30 years, died at the age of 90 on Jan. 10 in Winchester, Mass.

With some commercial fishing vessels unable to get into Montauk Harbor during low tide, Suffolk County Executive Edward P. Romaine has asked Col. Alex Young of the United States Army Corps of Engineers “to utilize emergency funding to dredge the Montauk Inlet and deepen the channel to at least 17 feet.”