Vincent Maher of Manhattan and Springs, a surfer and fisherman who worked for many years as a mate on Montauk sportfishing boats, died on Feb. 13 in Manhattan. He was 78.

In the wake of the March 8 and 9 brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach, Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine has announced the county’s first southern pine beetle symposium, which happens on Wednesday from 9 a.m. to noon at Suffolk Community College’s Riverhead campus.

Evelyn (Cissy) Bradford Ritz of Bridgehampton, a former teacher in South Fork schools and real estate broker, died last Thursday at Peconic Landing in Greenport. She was 86.

Kryn Olson, a teacher at the Sag Harbor Elementary School for 25 years, died of a heart attack at home in Sag Harbor on April 3. She was 66.