David Seeler of the Bayberry
David Seeler, a respected landscape architect and owner of the Bayberry Nursery in Amagansett for many years, died of acute myeloid leukemia on Sept. 28 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 83.
For Devin Brevard
The family of Devin Brevard will receive visitors on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, and again on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church here.
On the Water: The Window Narrows
Increasingly stronger and more persistent winds, especially from the northeast or northwest, portend that there really are only a few weeks of fishable days remaining. Time is getting short, inshore and especially offshore.
The Lineup 10.09.25
All the high school sports competition for the week ahead.
Letters to the Editor for October 9, 2025
Readers weigh in. And weigh in some more.
The Way It Was for October 9, 2025
In 1900, the friendly neighborhood Star evoked sizzling sausages and hot griddle cakes to welcome fall. And other, more prosaic entries from our past pages.
Shifting Narrative on Trump ‘Hellscape’
Democrats have begun winning the messaging battle, shifting attention from military deployments intended to rile up protests in blue-state cities to highlight the White House’s made-up narrative that the country is going to hell.
Is Your Reporter a Robot?
Freelance writers are turning in stories to weekly newspapers composed in the dulcet tones and smooth rhythms of ChatGPT-generated text. Here are some tips to detecting it.
The Mast-Head: Vague Sources
Before it was called Easthampton or East Hampton, the tiny colonial town way out on the eastern part of Long Island was known as Maidstone. Supposedly. Proof is scant.
The Shipwreck Rose: Class of 2053
At some point over the summer I passed over an invisible boundary line and began looking ahead to that golden day when I will become a grandmother.