The Mast-Head: The Baby Beach
A chat with a teen who wants to be a Main Beach lifeguard reminds me of my own brief and unremarkable lifeguarding career.
East Hampton Pride in Pictures
There was rain, and then some, but there were plenty of rainbows at the East Hampton Village Pride Parade on Saturday, led this year by the Tony Award-winning performer, writer, and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell as grand marshal.
Sag Harbor Elections on Tuesday
Elections for Sag Harbor Village mayor and two village trustees will take place on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Sag Harbor Fire Department headquarters off Brick Kiln Road, but in each case, incumbents are running unopposed.
The Shipwreck Rose: Goodbye, Mr. Rawson
The phrase “baggage train” kept popping into my head this weekend as we packed up the contents of my daughter’s dorm room in New Hampshire and stuffed it all into the crevices of the car.
Gristmill: So Long to the Standard
The last five-speed Nissan manual transmission just rolled off an assembly line in Mexico.
Guestwords: In a Gondola’s Wake
A “Way It Was” entry in this newspaper from 1950 about a 36-foot, 19th-century gondola being transported by railcar to the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va., unleashes a flood of memories.
The Way It Was for June 12, 2025
When race cars, not jets, roared at the Westhampton Beach airport, and in the Same as It Ever Was Dept., a panic over worker housing from back in 2000.
Letters to the Editor for June 12, 2025
Comment, outrage, and bombast. It’s the week in Star missives.
Oscar Molina: Art Born of Conflict
Among the series of works created by Oscar Molina, a prolific Southampton artist, his “Children of the World” paintings and sculptures reflect his encounters with conflict and survival as a boy in El Salvador during its civil war.
A Guitar Virtuoso and a Jubilee
The acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Hiroya Tsukamoto performs Friday at LTV, and next Thursday the World Voices Series and the Eastville Community Historical Society will celebrate Juneteenth with the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee White Party Awards and Celebration Ceremony.