Arnold Leo, who spent the last 50 years of his life as a defender of both the East Hampton baymen community and the environment of the South Fork, died on April 30. He was 90.

Celeste Whalen Steil, who lived in Key West and Montauk, where she once ran the Grandview Manor and the Montauk Bake Shoppe, died on May 27. She was 74.

Eileen Wells Tublin of Springs and Brooklyn, a former trial lawyer and committee chairwoman for the L.V.I.S. for many years, died on May 28 at the age of 96.

Suffolk County Justice James F. Quinn issued a temporary restraining order this week preventing East Hampton Town from closing on its controversial purchase of 549 and 550 Wainscott Northwest Road in Wainscott.