Given a chance to make comments on recent legislative suggestions about the zoning code in East Hampton Town, the planning board, at its Sept. 25 meeting, chose to focus instead on a suggestion that wasn’t made: changing the least flashy but perhaps most consequential zoning tool at the town’s disposal, the table of dimensional regulations.

Lamenting changes to Sag Harbor, lamenting the housing problem, lamenting the mess that is our politics. Our readers unload.

Judging by the relative calm on Main Street at midweek since Labor Day, East Hampton’s population has returned to the seasonal, weekend-versus-midweek, boom-and-bust pattern of pre-Covid-19 days.

Hurricane Helene’s path from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia is a stunning reminder of how little separates much of the United States from massive weather disasters.

We salute the people who make the elections run so well in difficult times.

Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of what looked like little tropical fish-tank fish were swimming near the surface.

Emails from colleges drift in and pile up in my daughter’s email inbox — and my own email inbox — like the falling leaves of the sugar maple and the red oak.

A straight father of three sings the praises of Judy Garland.

The Patchogue-Medford High School class of 1962 gathers, and a novelist gets to thinking.

No rest for the realty. Here’s what’s new.

"Because of the weather, the only day we could go out clamming was Friday. We were out there for five hours," said Michael Fromm of Amagansett, whose efforts paid off when he emerged the overall winner of the East Hampton Town Trustees' 33rd Largest Clam Contest on Sunday.

East Hampton Town will hold a hearing on Oct. 17 on what would be the largest community preservation fund purchase in its history, $56 million for 30 acres south of Wainscott Main Street. 

Annette Danto has dedicated her career as a documentary filmmaker and an educator to promoting understanding among people of different cultures.

A beautifully put together volume about an artist and his work doubles as a history of Long Island’s development.

A photojournalist embedded with U.S. troops in Iraq has directed a documentary about the unlikely victory of that country's national football team in the 2007 Asian Cup.

The sardonic wit of David Sedaris, The Met: Live in HD, and a multimedia performance by Student Body are coming to Guild Hall.

Ingrid Griffith will bring her award-winning interactive solo show about Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to LTV.

The fifth annual Black Film Festival will bring four innovative short films and related discussions to Bay Street Theater.

Heart of Springs, the mission of which is to promote and celebrate the cultural, historical, and spiritual significance of the Springs Historic District, has announced Springs Fest, with music by Real East End Brass and Hopefully Forgiven, a food truck, beer, and wine, happening on Saturday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Blacksmith Shop at 1 Parsons Place.

A new exhibition at The Sag Harbor Church celebrates the groundbreaking graphic design of Push Pin Studios.