EDITORIALS
Buying Milk By the Book
The imminent public release of the state’s audit of East Hampton Town’s 2007 financial affairs, which is expected in about a month, will arrive just as the political season is heating up.

Expanding Through Loopholes
East Hampton Village officials are on the right track in further limiting commercial creep into residential neighborhoods. 

COLUMNS
Connections | Helen S. Rattray
Baking for Dummies
The recipe my granddaughter Adelia found for sponge cake in the old “Joy of Cooking” didn’t sound hard.

The Mast-Head | David E. Rattray
The Trouble With Soup
This column takes the form of an apology, perhaps, to the people who responded to an ad I ran last week offering to give away a rooster.

Point of View | Jack Graves
On a Moral Plane
People have been hailing Obama’s get-tough talk regarding the postelection death-dealing in Iran, though isn’t it time people here begin to get tough regarding our own never-ending warmaking in that part of the world?

GUESTWORDS | By Sandy Camillo
Max, Me, and the Ocean
My daughter wanted another Maggie, so I had to gently explain to her that a boy dog probably wouldn’t like that name.

Relay | Janis Hewitt
She’s No Role Model
I think Barbie is lying about her age.