Kathryn Karabelas of Montauk, a gourmet cook and gardener, died on Sept. 4 following a stroke. She was 87.

A farmer, firefighter, and “daredevil” who raced cars as a young man and rode motorcycles into his late 80s, Lawrance Leroy Osborn of Wainscott died at home on Nov. 13 at the age of 91.

A death has been linked to the alpha-gal meat allergy that is spread by ticks, primarily the lone star tick. According to researchers in Virginia, in the summer of 2024 a healthy 47-year-old man from New Jersey died four hours after consuming beef, likely unaware he had contracted the allergy.