Sas Peters, a 65-year-old Amagansetter who has persuaded this country’s Ultimate disk governing body over the past years to add divisions for 40, 50, and 60-year-olds in officially sanctioned national and international play, contended last month in the first 60-and-over Legends world championship tournament in Sarasota, Fla.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball team won a season-opening tournament at Mattituck High School over the weekend, and the boys swimming team, while it lost its season-opener by 3 points at Hauppauge last Thursday, would have won if diving had not been one of the events. East Hampton has no divers.

In baseball parlance, the fishing season is now formally in the bottom of the ninth inning. There are two outs and two strikes on the batter at the plate, or in this case a fisherman with a rod and reel in hand. For my part, I did not want to strike out by not fishing one last time before the end of the year.

Linda Sue Russell's lifelong goal, her family wrote, was to be happy and raise a family, and that she did. She died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 13.