Editorials

The East Hampton Town Trustees are making the right move in joining a group of fishermen suing to preserve their access to a 4,000-foot-long portion of ocean beach.

Our hearts break for the Ukrainian people, as bombs and missiles continue to wreck their cities, and we fear that the worst days may still be ahead.

Heavy eastbound traffic in the morning has resumed in force this week, prompting thoughts of limiting growth.

Opponents of an underground electrical wind farm cable now being installed in Wainscott have filed a lawsuit.

Something about selling alcohol at East Hampton Main Beach seems off.

With Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine now nearing its third week of active hostilities, the time may have come for conservatives of good conscience in the United States to take back the narrative from the Donald Trump-Tucker Carlson right wing.

Once again, East Hampton Town officials have been trying to figure out how to deal with the ever-increasing number of large events held here during the summer season.

In a tribute to Ukraine, a sharp reminder of the importance of knowing the past and how that knowledge can give us a better understanding of the present.

Recognizing the pressure of a rapidly heating planet, change may be coming, in East Hampton Town, at least.

The visually pleasant change in the Reutershan Lot is not without a significant public safety risk.

The East Hampton Town Board withers in the face of lawsuits from pilots and the air-transportation industry, and a letter from the F.A.A.

Good news for the environment: Blackstone is concerned about the long term in the extraction industries.

What to do about the increasing number of historic properties the town now owns.

Sarah Palin, the former Alaska governor, lost her libel lawsuit against The New York Times this week, but this important case may be headed to the Supreme Court.

The F.A.A. doesn’t like it one bit, but East Hampton Town should stay the course on a long-sought change to the way its airport operates.

New York’s First Congressional District changed shape a week ago in one of the more egregious examples of this year’s wave of political gerrymandering.

What could be the largest ever land development project in East Hampton Town is under consideration for a site off Montauk Highway in Wainscott.

East Hampton Town should never have gotten itself into the public storm it now faces over a plan to install artificial turf playing fields on a site off Stephen Hand’s Path.

The new curve-topped trash bins adorning the East Hampton Village business district are frankly ugly.

A sobering new study of the East Hampton shoreline has shown significant degradation.

We are extremely pleased that the momentum for a new Dominy museum has returned.

With the airport private, the town in theory could just say no to certain kinds of aircraft and commercial flights or limit the number and timing of takeoffs and landings.

A proposal to double the number of affordable residences that could be built per acre in certain zones could go a long way toward easing the housing crisis in East Hampton.

No rink can compare to the joy of gliding on wide-open surfaces with the wind at our backs.

Times have indeed changed regarding East Hampton Airport, but so far, not all elected town officials appear to have taken notice.

Those 18-wheeler trucks carrying boulders in an eastward direction can be seen as a symbol of things to come.

Today marks the one-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in United States history.

“What’s going on with Town Pond?”

At first look, an effort by the East Hampton Town Board to gain greater regulatory power over sand mines and composting operations might seem worthwhile, but is it really?

Deep-pocketed investors are excited to get a piece of the anticipated post-pandemic boom. How much further disruption this will bring to the East End way of life is up to local officials — and a well-informed public.