Editorials

How do you get from Covid to the tax cap? Consider what will be lost if sharp cuts have to be made to the school budgets in East Hampton.

What the community gets for the money it spends on libraries is impressive indeed.

Interested in seeing the 10,000-foot view of how far inland the eroding shoreline has reached? Take a look in Google Maps at the end of Bay View Avenue near Lazy Point, Amagansett.

The kerfuffles surrounding the Hedges and Huntting Inns in East Hampton Village point to a longstanding problem: Old-line businesses that do not conform with zoning laws are getting bigger.

There have been bitter complaints lately on social media about the trash left behind after soccer matches, softball games, and pickup basketball in our East Hampton parks.

East Hampton Town has a waiting list of more than 450 people seeking affordable senior citizen housing but only 127 apartments. A proposal to allow 12 housing units per acre might increase the supply by a third.

Montauk is in a rough place with the imminent closing of its sole pharmacy.

Newsreaders and culture mavens were delighted this week to learn that Guild Hall has announced that after two years of work the arts institution will raise the curtain on a fully renovated John Drew Theater in July.

We’re told by experts that burlap wrap isn’t good for some species, especially evergreens, and that it doesn’t in fact actually keep plants warmer.

Americans, by and large, don’t get together out in the elements much anymore.

While Plum Island remains vulnerable to a sale under the terms of a 2008 act of Congress, we should look to Camp Hero as an example.

Spring is here, and as our attention refocuses out of doors, this is a good moment to take a breath and consider the poor birds.