For the first time ever, East Hampton Village will offer a lifeguard certification at its own beaches, the village’s head lifeguard, Drew Smith, announced earlier this month.

The Sag Harbor Village treasurer told village police last Thursday that money had been stolen from a village payroll account to the tune of $10,200 via fraudulent checks.

When a water line break in East Hampton Village flooded several businesses a month ago, Gubbins Running Ahead, a sporting goods shop on Park Place, lost all of its inventory, including 7,000 pairs of athletic footwear. Last week, Geary Gubbins, who has run the sporting goods shop since 2013, parlayed his business’s misfortune into an act of generosity for a local nonprofit.

Elizabeth de Cuevas of Amagansett and New York City, who used the name Strong-Cuevas as an artist, died on March 19 at her Manhattan apartment. She was 94 and had been unwell for only a few days.

Priscilla Alden Duer Cohen of Sag Harbor and Manhattan, called Alden by those who knew her, died at home on Sullivan Street in Manhattan on March 12 after a brief illness. She was 96.

Ann Virginia Porter, who was a social worker at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City before retiring to Wainscott, died on March 4 at home there. She was 97 and had cancer.

Dolores Klaich, a journalist, editor, and educator formerly of East Hampton, died on March 8, International Women’s Day, in the Brattleboro, Vt., home where she had lived since 2004. She was 86.

Patricia Eames, who was active in Amagansett’s commercial fishing community for many years, died at home in East Hampton on Feb. 28. She was 85.