It may have been from 185 years ago, but Juliana MacLachlan Gardiner’s letter from Saratoga Springs to her daughter expresses the same anxieties of a parent of a teen today.

Melanie Amanda Ross, a veteran of the real estate industry here, died on June 30 of complications of a brain aneurysm. She was 76.

Meredith Blake, a part-time resident of Amagansett, died of ovarian cancer in hospice care on July 15. She was 52.

Jeanette Loper Beebe, a lifelong volunteer and skilled knitter formerly of East Hampton, died on July 15 in South Carolina at the age of 98.