Endorsements have been rolling in for both sides in the race for New York State’s First Assembly District seat, in which Stephen Kiely, a Republican and Conservative candidate, and Tommy John Schiavoni, a Democratic and Working Families candidate, are vying to succeed Fred W. Thiele Jr.

Historically, an idea stretching through the English common law system to ancient times maintains that criminal court is a public forum. But virtual court — a change introduced during the pandemic — has stuck around, altering court proceedings and increasing the efficiency of local courthouses.

Eventually, a major hurricane is coming, and Montauk — whose lifeblood is the ocean — is not ready. If the hamlet is hit by a truly big hurricane, it won’t be able to just get back to its feet and walk on. To make even a dent in the task of full recovery will require an army of dedicated experts, officials, and residents — and a yacht-load of money.

Our Fabulous Variety Show will entertain children at its Kids’ Night Out on Saturday. Plus: sewing club, kids' movies, arts and crafts, and a visit from a therapy dog.

Robert Salpeter of Manhattan and Montauk, a pioneering graphic designer who began his career at IBM and started his own studio, died on Sept. 8 at the age of 88. He had been ill with pancreatic cancer.

As we have now formally settled into fall, the changes on the fishing scene have commenced, as have the changes in weather.

Rocky Point picked East Hampton as its homecoming opponent. Big mistake. The Bonackers on Saturday wreaked havoc at the North Shore school on their way to a 40-7 rout of the Eagles.

I-Tri, the South Fork-based girls’ empowerment program, will host its annual Ride and Wine fund-raising cycling event on Oct. 5, with a new route and a new spot for its afterparty.

“It was a great game,” Don McGovern, the Bonac boys soccer coach, said of an East Hampton and Amityville tilt through 80 minutes of regulation and two 10-minute overtimes.

Catching up with East Hampton girls tennis, girls swimming, and boys and girls cross-country.

From the complexities and curiosities of cricket in Southampton to surfers in giant swells off Montauk, it happened here.

Some things are inevitable in these pages over the years. Like rumrunning, breakwaters and dredging, and Fred Thiele.

Our readers will have their say. And say, and say, and say.

Solar energy on a first-come-first-served basis? It may sound unusual, but that’s what’s on the table for residents and small-business owners in Southampton’s half of Sag Harbor Village and other nearby parts of the township, through a solar project being constructed at the North Sea Transfer Station.

In honor of the official start of autumn on Sunday, we have a few specific suggestions for making the most of every moment of your favorite month.

The East Hampton Town Board is talking about zoning tweaks that had been proposed in response to a more all-encompassing call for greater building restraints. Just as it had discussed back in May.

An office goldfish heads to the great fish pond in the sky.

My mother, Helen Selden Rattray, has the longevity genes of the Greenland shark. She will be turning 90 years old on Sunday.

Feeding the beast: On the 800-pound gorilla that is the National Football League.

It can happen here: Applying a professor’s Tourism Area Life Cycle metric is revealing, bordering on bracing.