editorials

Memorial Day, 2011

Monday is Memorial Day, a time when East Hampton’s Main Street stops for a brief half-hour as veterans and others ...
Montauk’s Jasmine Spring

The Facebook revolution, writ small, hit East Hampton Town last week in advance of a deal to award beach...
Restoring Old Views

Looking at old photographs of East Hampton Town, you are struck by a nearly complete absence of trees and other...
Concert: Big Job Ahead

Now that the August alt-rock festival at East Hampton Airport has received a green light, the promoters and town officials will have to work overtime to...
Fishing Almost Forgotten

It is difficult to know what to make of a series of meetings in East Hampton last week between local officials and representatives of the United States Department of Commerce. The participants were...
Vote for the Schools

By convincing margins, voters from Bridgehampton to Montauk approved school budgets Tuesday and rejected the more anti-tax school...
Fine Choices in Springs

Springs voters will be asked on Tuesday to choose from among four candidates running for two board of education seats, and you would be hard pressed to find a...
For East Hampton School Board

The candidates in the East Hampton Board of Education election Tuesday present a range of perspectives and qualifications. Of these, one, Jackie Lowey, stands out as ...
Connections: Something’s Fishy

Helen S. Rattray
Okay. I owe Arctic char an apology. It’s a pretty fish, with flesh similar to the salmon’s, that is pink. What I really don’t plan to ever eat again, after reading about it in The New York Times this...
Don’t Blame The C.P.F.

n prepared remarks last month, East Hampton Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinson said that the “dedication of close to 50 percent of the available land to open space has led to a serious...