The scramble to find a refuge during the pandemic has led to surging home sales and prices, bidding wars, and an ongoing boom in the East End real estate market, according to third-quarter reports from several real estate agencies.

Nancy J. Page, a former technician and sales representative for telephone companies, died on Oct. 5 at home in Sag Harbor. She was 74.

Students in the Bridgehampton School's seventh through 12th grades have been learning remotely since March 16, when schools here first closed because of Covid-19. Now there's a plan in the works to bring those students back into the building.

East End Halloween festivities, including the traditional gathering of hundreds of costumed trick-or-treaters on East Hampton Village streets with decked-out houses, are being discouraged this year because of the pandemic, but two Cooper Lane families are going all out decorating their homes to give children a thrill.