The East Hampton Star won awards for its East magazine and coverage of education in the New York Press Association’s 2021 Better Newspaper Contest, and its deputy managing editor, Christine Sampson, took third place in the writer of the year category.

The judges praised Ms. Sampson’s “ability to handle a variety of topics with comprehension and style,” and said her “work showed solid writing on a variety of assignments.” Annette Hinkle of The Sag Harbor Express took first in that category.

This postcard from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows the Ruger Donoho House at 48 Egypt Lane in East Hampton, later sold, one Impressionist painter to another, to Childe Hassam.

Summing up his department’s just-released report on police activity in 2021, East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo sounded justifiably content. “Some of the national trends in both personal crime and property crime that seem to have been spiking have not impacted us here," he said. "We’ve trended down in almost every criminal defense category over the last few years."