The Southampton and Brookhaven Town Democratic Committees will co-host a virtual forum featuring the Democratic candidates to represent New York’s First Congressional District on Thursday at 7 p.m. via Zoom video conference.

Edwin Livingston Sherrill Jr., a descendant of one of East Hampton’s early families and a member of the East Hampton Village Board for many years, died on Jan. 19 in Charleston, S.C. He was 99.

Vincent Elias Grimes, “the oldest living person born in Montauk,” died on Sunday at home at the age of 93.

The white-throated sparrow’s song “is a lament,” George Gladden wrote, “a lament which is wistful and ineffably plaintive, but in which there is no despair, only sweet hopefulness.”