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This seasonal article published in This Week, a magazine that ran from 1935 to 1969 as a supplement for newspapers across the country, highlighted recipes East Hampton’s founding families.

The confluence of Covid, influenza, and respiratory syncytial virus (R.S.V.) is causing people to break out their masks, hand sanitizer, and disinfectant just ahead of the holidays. “And we’re just at the beginning of what is typically the season for upper respiratory illnesses,” said Dr. Fredric Weinbaum, chief medical officer at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

If Norman Rockwell were alive today, his iconic Saturday Evening Post illustrations might star not Mother and Father with their children, but rather blended families featuring step-parents and step-siblings. “The so-called ‘blended family’ is no longer an aberration in American society: It’s a norm,” the American Psychological Association wrote in 2019. How, then, can blended families navigate holiday celebrations most smoothly? An expert from Sag Harbor weighs in.

From an 1897 issue of The Star: “Who says this is a slow town?”

The parents of Carrie Sullivan embarked on a journey a year ago that no parent should ever have to endure. On Nov. 6, 2021, their 29-year-old daughter, a graduate of East Hampton High School, was in a horrific car accident in Brooklyn that left her paralyzed, and left the family needing help as she begins rehabilitation.

“It’s time to finish this up,” Susan Mead, co-president of the Sag Harbor Partnership, said about raising money for a potential writers retreat at the John Steinbeck property on Bluff Point Lane in Sag Harbor Village. Efforts to preserve the house have been underway since February 2021, when the 1.8-acre parcel hit the market for the first time in six decades.

This photo, taken by Cal Norris on Dec. 16, 1979, shows Rabbi Albert Silverman with a group of children at a Hanukkah party at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.

Elizabeth Rome Mallory and Christopher Robert Stonerook of Brooklyn were married at the Maidstone Club in East Hampton on Nov. 5.

Antisemitism has been amplified lately by celebrities who use social media to perpetuate hateful speech, and hate crimes against Jews are again on the rise. On the South Fork, antisemitism is being met head-on with action by religious leaders and lay people alike.

Among 11 other properties scattered across New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul nominated the Van Scoy Burying Ground in Northwest Woods for both the State and National Registers of Historic Places on Monday.

Elizabeth Heppenheimer and Colin Worby of Medford, Mass., were married on Nov. 5 at Hampshire House in Boston, the bar that inspired the “Cheers” TV series. Justice Roseanne Pope officiated.

The South Fork’s L.G.B.T.Q.+ community is celebrating President Biden’s signing on Tuesday of the Respect for Marriage Act, a new, bipartisan law that protects the marriages of same-sex couples across the country.