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With reports from Peconic Bay poor, there was a sense that the scallop crop in town waters would be bad as well.

It might be time for Democrats to revisit the candidate selection process in the First Congressional District.

The schools have done a good job dealing with virus cases and preventing wider outbreaks by strictly managing their internal practices. But once outside of the school buildings, the risk of uncontrolled transmission increases.

Good for a hundred years, why in the world were New York’s old voting machines ever put out to pasture?

Insomnia is how I personally discovered the philosophical truth that “I think therefore I am,” a  couple of years before I heard the name Descartes and “Cogito, ergo sum” at boarding school.

During last Thursday’s editorial meeting, one of the editors, Irene Silverman, asked why it was that I had named my sailboat after a three-headed dog.

We interrupt the leadup to the Election for the Ages to bring you an update on one man’s vehicular travails.

Have you been to Fairview Farm at Mecox?

It is about 30 miles in a more or less straight line from Point Judith, R.I., to the Montauk Inlet. My friend Jameson and I made the crossing Saturday, sailing Cerberus to its new home.

Can we talk? About, oh, the pointlessness of Supreme Court confirmation hearings?

I am only too happy to revisit Midtown. I will never see another youthful dawn in Alphabet City, but there will always be Macy’s.

One of the many things that struck me on my recent and ongoing sail from Marblehead, Mass., to East Hampton is how accommodating the communities on the other side of the water are to passing boaters, especially as compared to Long Island.