Ronald Parsons Rioux, who grew up in East Hampton and worked as a teacher of math and science abroad for many years, died of cancer on May 19 in Dubuque, Iowa. He was 78.

Bonac’s girls track team finished its spring season at the state qualifier meet at Comsewogue High School last week with much to be proud of, including two school records and a number of P.R.s

An Ultimate disc tournament for about 40 veteran players, men and women, ages 50 to 71, was held recently at the John M. Marshall Elementary School field over the course of two days.

Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island is launching a rapid response action plan following an increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests on Long Island. Operation Stand and Protect has been established to provide access to “an active cohort of local volunteers who are ready to witness, engage, and act swiftly and peacefully to document ICE activities.”

East Hampton High’s unified program in bowling and basketball has been a success for the athletes, their fans, and their peer partners.

It’s best to buy fish and shellfish that are locally captured and in season here. Consumers need to be smart if they truly desire freshness.

A track performance draws a comparison to Roy Hobbs, and a remembrance of a great softball coach — Lou Reale.

R.F.K. Jr., who just dismissed the entire C.D.C. committee responsible for making vaccination recommendations, is not just the leading vaccine skeptic, he is a conspiracy theorist who believes this committee is a secret cabal lining their pockets with gold. They are not.

A fishing industry lawsuit filed last week seeking to stop construction of Empire Wind 1, an 810-megawatt project in the ocean off Long Island, is just one part of a multipronged assault on clean energy.

A chat with a teen who wants to be a Main Beach lifeguard reminds me of my own brief and unremarkable lifeguarding career. 

There was rain, and then some, but there were plenty of rainbows at the East Hampton Village Pride Parade on Saturday, led this year by the Tony Award-winning performer, writer, and filmmaker John Cameron Mitchell as grand marshal. 

Elections for Sag Harbor Village mayor and two village trustees will take place on Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Sag Harbor Fire Department headquarters off Brick Kiln Road, but in each case, incumbents are running unopposed. 

The phrase “baggage train” kept popping into my head this weekend as we packed up the contents of my daughter’s dorm room in New Hampshire and stuffed it all into the crevices of the car.

The last five-speed Nissan manual transmission just rolled off an assembly line in Mexico. 

A “Way It Was” entry in this newspaper from 1950 about a 36-foot, 19th-century gondola being transported by railcar to the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Va., unleashes a flood of memories.

When race cars, not jets, roared at the Westhampton Beach airport, and in the Same as It Ever Was Dept., a panic over worker housing from back in 2000.

Comment, outrage, and bombast. It’s the week in Star missives.

Among the series of works created by Oscar Molina, a prolific Southampton artist, his “Children of the World” paintings and sculptures reflect his encounters with conflict and survival as a boy in El Salvador during its civil war.

The acclaimed guitarist and songwriter Hiroya Tsukamoto performs Friday at LTV, and next Thursday the World Voices Series and the Eastville Community Historical Society will celebrate Juneteenth with the second annual Juneteenth Jubilee White Party Awards and Celebration Ceremony.

Lez Zeppelin will return to the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett for what Steph Paynes, the band’s founder and guitarist, called "a wild, intense, sensuous, in-your-face, no-holds-barred” show.