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The Way It Was for April 30, 2026

“Everywhere I look there’s road work!” a motorist complained to anyone who would listen on a May day in 2001. What’s semi-old is new again in Star World.

Recorded Deeds 04.30.26

Recent moves in the South Fork real estate scene.

Shadow Docket Overshadowed

When The Times published a group of internal Supreme Court communications, it laid bare what has now been called “a major milestone in the decline of American democracy.”

Young Scientists Give Us Hope

Students’ personalities and passions shone through at the East Hampton High School Science Research Symposium.

The Mast-Head: Promised Land

A walk in Promised Land State Park offers a chance to reflect on how the fish oil business once thrived there.

The Shipwreck Rose: Dreaming Is Free

Are any of you as stumped as I am about what to daydream about now that we are no longer young?

Gristmill: Unmanly Men

In troubled times, there’s always comics.

Guestwords: The Perfectionism Plague

The push for academic success produces far too much distress in high school students. Here are a few ideas for reducing it.

Baseball Breaks Through With First Win

Last week the Bonackers erased the zero from their record, notching their first victory of the season in extra-inning walk-off fashion against Eastport-South Manor.

Bonac Represents at the Penn Relays

Over the weekend, East Hampton’s 4-by-400-meter relay team — Jasper Samuelson, Emmett Schumann, Hudson Goulart, and Liam Knight — ran their best time of the season and Bonac’s best in that event in a decade.

Freshman Softballer Drives in Winning Run

The East Hampton High School softball team hasn’t lost back-to-back games this season and is undefeated at home.

Storybook Ending in Unified Basketball

Music, dancing, and a buzzer-beater for the home team. Unified hoops “are my favorite events of the year,” Kathy Masterson, the district’s athletic director, said. “I wouldn’t miss them for the world.”

For Nick Epstein

A funeral for Nick Epstein of East Hampton will be held on Sunday at 1:30 p.m. at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons. Burial will follow at Shaarey Pardes Accabonac Grove Cemetery on Old Stone Highway in Springs.

Gary Cooper Film Festival

The Gary Cooper Film Festival at the Southampton Playhouse will feature four acclaimed films by the Oscar-winning actor, who had ties to Southampton.

Two New Shows at Guild Hall

New solo shows at Guild Hall will feature Arcmanoro Niles’s distinctive paintings informed by daily life and memory, and Claire Watson’s mixed-media assemblages made from salvaged leather garments.

A Pairing of Jazz and Silent Film

The next East Meets West Jazz Jam Session at the Southampton Cultural Center invites musicians and vocalists to improvise music as accompaniment to a program of silent film clips.

Opera, Experimental and Not

Coming to Guild Hall are two operas, one experimental, the other by Tchaikovsky, plus "Pee-wee's Big Adventure" and a panel about ecological land care.

Kids’ Books and Photography

The Church will host a talk Billy Baldwin, a children’s book author, a pinhole photography workshop, and a presentation by Elisabeth Biondi, the curator of its current exhibition.

The Art Scene 04.30.26

Artworks and artifacts at LongHouse, photography show in Southampton, new outdoor sculpture at the Parrish, landscapes at the Grenning Gallery, small works at Kramoris.