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   I ran into a close relative, my double in some respects, in A.R. Gurney’s “Love Letters” this week.
    I picked up a copy of the play, which...

   Monday, late for dinner, in my opinion, two houseguests and I walked into South Edison, one of the relatively new Montauk restaurants, hoping to get something to eat. A few minutes...

   There are no happy stories in this place, at least not for me.
    Sure, there are weddings. Weddings are happy. Brides are pretty, grooms dashing. I don...

   During the 20 or so years when we rented our winter house in town every summer and moved to one five miles away, on Gardiner’s Bay, we had the drill down pat. Even when the...

   I’m full of beans this week, having made enchiladas — the third meal I’ve cooked, I think, in the past 27 years.

   While everyone in America is celebrating the Fourth of July on Wednesday, I will take a moment to celebrate my dog, Brodie, an incredible golden doodle who looks like a platinum...

   Havens Beach in Sag Harbor was closed by order of the Suffolk County Health Department yesterday and the day before that after heavy rains raised the possibility of bacterial...

   East Hampton had a major development boom in the 1980s. At least in developers’ dreams: A 400-unit subdivision was planned for Montauk’s Hither Woods, 64 oceanfront...

   When one of my tennis partners the other morning asked what I did, I told him I wrote sports for The Star, and had worked at the paper for such a long time, going on 45 years now,...