Robert A.M. Stern, a leading American architect whose forceful advocacy of Classicism and function defined his projects in East Hampton and around the world, died on Nov. 27 at 86.

Robert Weisberg, who was instrumental in building the original cable television system in East Hampton, died on Dec. 1 in Manhattan. He was 98.

Barrett Franklin Kalb, a pilot, lawyer, and entrepreneur formerly of Amagansett, died on Dec. 11 in North Carolina. He was 94.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the governors of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts have written to Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum to demand rescission of the Trump administration’s Dec. 22 pause of leases for five wind farms under construction off the Northeast coast.