Robert Young Jr., who was 35 and lived in East Hampton, died on Jan. 6 following cardiac arrest. A wake will be held on Friday evening at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home here, with a funeral at Most Holy Trinity on Saturday.

Patricia M. Ryan, an E.M.T. and driver for the East Hampton Ambulance Association for 34 years, died at home here on Jan. 7. She was 90.

Gordon M. Grant, a lifelong resident of Springs who began contributing photographs to local newspapers while he was still in high school, died of colon cancer on Jan. 9. He was 53.

A new 16-foot-tall Ditch Plain dune now stands impudently, or perhaps daringly, maybe both, before the Atlantic, extending from just east of what’s known as the “dirt lot” parking area to a few hundred feet west of the Seaside Avenue parking lot.