David Stiles of East Hampton and New York City, a prolific builder of treehouses and garden structures as well as a contributor of cartoons and letters to The Star, died in New York on Saturday evening. He was 91.

Larry Penny, former director of East Hampton Town’s Natural Resources Department and a nature writer for this newspaper for about 40 years, died on Dec. 15 in California. He was 89.

New year, new batch of reader missives.

For those who had high hopes for the Montauketts, this latest veto stings even more than the last five times a New York governor killed the tribe’s recognition.

The East Hampton Village Police Chief put it bluntly the other day when he remarked, “Big Brother is everywhere.”

The beauty of Jimmy Carter was that he persisted. He was a man of true convictions.

East Hampton was something of a backwater until nearly the dawn of the 20th century as compared to Sag Harbor, which the Long Island Rail Road linked to the rest of the world starting in 1870.

No one in my house likes change, and I am the Empress of Retrograde.

Obsessive online analysis shows just how bad Stan Lee’s Marvel Comics writing was. Jack Kirby, though, remains “the King.”

The best thing about growing up in the same house in Queens with my grandparents was how Grandpa revealed himself to be a storyteller like no other.

It’s the return of the college’s arts journal, The Southampton Review, and a story of the Dutch Resistance during World War II gets a nod from Kirkus.

Esly Escobar is a Guatemala-born, East End-based multimedia artist, D.J., music producer, fashion designer, and technician at LTV Studios.

Christopher Cox’s exploration of Woodrow Wilson’s presidency is simultaneously enlightening and unflattering, with a focus on his lengthy stonewalling of the suffragist movement.

Works & Process, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting performing artists, is bringing a weekend of dance performances to The Church in Sag Harbor, Guild Hall, and the Watermill Center.

Nadia Ernestus is leading an eight-week workshop at Stony Brook Southampton's Food Lab devoted to boosting immune systems through healthy eating.

Whit Stillman will be at the Sag Harbor Cinema with his 1990 comedy of manners "Metropolitan," which earned him an Oscar nod for best original screenplay.

The Southampton Playhouse, formerly the Southampton Cinema, has announced its inaugural executive director and artistic director in advance of its 2025 opening.

Christine Sampson is moving from The East Hampton Star to LTV Studios, where she has been named director of community engagement.

The next round-table discussion of the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will focus on deriving pleasure from gardens during the winter.

The Artists and Writers dinner series at Almond restaurant in Bridgehampton will host Isla Hansen, a multidisciplinary artist, Il Buco al Mare in Amagansett has a new prix fixe, and Goldberg's is open in Water Mill.