This week's lineup of activities for children and teens includes robotics, taste-test challenges, a Mario Kart tournament, sports activities, and more.

A woman at the Amagansett train station reported “an older man making eye contact” with her on Friday evening and walking around her car. Eventually, she told police, he attempted to open her locked car door. Police could not find him.

I can most certainly relate to the phrase “old habits are hard to break,” especially as it pertains to bay scallops. No matter how much I read year after year about the dire predictions for the five-month scallop season, which opened at daybreak on Monday morning in state waters, I still make plans to be on my Rock Water with six iron dredges in tow on opening day.

A writer looks back at one of the most iconic pickup basketball games on the South Fork, a long-running Sunday morning affair that drew all sorts of players from all walks of life.

Two months after it was originally to have been played, the East End men’s 7-on-7 soccer final was finally contested at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Oct. 30, with Maidstone Market, the league’s perennial power, emerging as a 2-1 winner over Tortorella Pools.

A Prohibition-era rumrunning arrest, the death of an important pet fish, election results from another era, and more in this week's look back at the East Hampton Star archive.

Paid notice: James R. Barry of Evans, GA. passed away Tuesday, October 29, 2024. From 1959 to 1991, Jim taught Social Studies at East Hampton Union Free School District, East Hampton, N.Y.

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In a rare unanimous decision, the architectural review board has denied an application to build a 7,374-square-foot residence at 84 Wainscott Hollow Road in Wainscott. Renderings of the proposed nine-bedroom, 12-bathroom house have been on Zillow even ahead of the A.R.B. meetings, with a suggested value of over $23 million.

Overnight, from Tuesday to Wednesday, the world shifted on its axis. We can pretend we awoke to the same country, and go about our business, but we did not.

It almost seems a drop in a vast sea of uncertainty to talk of something as seemingly small as signs in Sag Harbor. Yet in the context of the re-election of a Constitution-defying leader, small freedoms will come to loom large.

If this week has taught us anything, it’s that we need more opportunities to come together for fun. You got a taste of that if you had a chance to stop by the block party that the East Hampton Village Foundation hosted on Newtown Lane on Oct. 26 as the Yankees faced the Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series.

A number of people I’ve run into in the past couple of weeks have asked about my sailboat and what the status of its motor retrofit is. Perhaps it was because of the unseasonably mild weather that some minds turned to sailing.

Many, many years — and many shattered illusions — ago, during the presidential election year of 2004, when I was a magazine editor in Manhattan, I volunteered during the Republican National Convention as an “election observer.”

Casting an early ballot in the old Southampton College gym brings on the hoop dreams.

Memories of a time abroad that taught one writer how to truly experience travel.

This week's reported real estate transfers include several vacant and commercial properties.

On Tuesday evening in Sag Harbor, people were busy casting ballots at the firehouse on Brick Kiln Road. The fire trucks themselves were seen and heard on Main Street during a victory parade for the Pierson-Bridgehampton field hockey team, which had just won the class C county championship game. And a small group of worshipers gathered at Christ Church to pray and meditate together, navigating their Election Day anxieties in the comfort of interfaith spiritual discourse and uplifting music.

Pie, anyone? East Hampton High School's senior class is raising money for its banquet later this year by selling pies that will be available just in time for Thanksgiving.

The chef Karen Lee is both a teacher and a caterer, based in Amagansett and New York, who is happy to cook for one person or as many as 60.