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Point of View: Don’t Stop the Music

Sports here got off to a stuttery start last year at this time, and I’m hoping this dreary virus doesn’t eat again into one of my life’s chief joys, which is rooting animatedly for the home, sweet home team.

Jan 6, 2022
The Mast-Head: The New D.M.V.

While the pandemic has created havoc in so many aspects of life, Covid-19 has turned out to be the one thing that could finally save the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Jan 6, 2022
Gristmill: The Name Game

From Atlanticville to Hog Neck, what happened to the great place names of yore?

Jan 6, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: A Cold Month

We find ourselves in the perverse position of wishing for raw, freezing weather.

Jan 6, 2022
Gristmill: Deal Me In

Togetherness through cards.

Dec 30, 2021
The Shipwreck Rose: Answer the Call

It’s Tuesday morning at 10 minutes to 10, and I have somehow neglected to come up with a subject for this week’s column, which needs to be turned in by 2:20 this afternoon.

Dec 30, 2021
Point of View: Blessed in Great Neck

Hobbled and fearing the worst, I jumped at a chance to see my knee doctor in Great Neck on the Tuesday before Christmas.

Dec 30, 2021
The Mast-Head: One Word or Two?

The first-ever issue of this paper read in a gothic font, “The Easthampton Star.” Seeing the name of the town as one word has raised the question of when East Hampton became two words and if it ever properly was just one.

Dec 30, 2021
The Shipwreck Rose: The Big Signal

Radio seems to be surviving the advent of the internet, doesn’t it? Reading suffers, print media staggers, but listening goes on. I’m a radio person. You are or you aren’t.

Dec 23, 2021
Point of View: A Time to Engage, Rather Than Rage

It's always easier to destroy than to build, Mary keeps telling me. Perhaps that's why we're at each other's throats, on the Internet and elsewhere — it's easier.

Dec 23, 2021
The Mast-Head: Getting Better

It seems everyone took up at least one new thing during the pandemic. What with few or no social obligations and nowhere to go, we have tried to learn a fresh skill or do better at a familiar chore. Cleaning the kitchen has never been so interesting!

Dec 23, 2021
Gristmill: No Spoilers

It's Spidey to the rescue — of cinemas. And just in time, before the hacking, feverish world backslides into another lockdown.

Dec 23, 2021