For years, I have believed with a fervor that clothes with signs of wear, if not tear, are cool.

It really is too bad for the teenagers of 2025 that thrifting has devolved into such a sad affair, slim pickings and executive prices.

Adventures in vacation week skiing.

On the evils of Christian nationalism.

Emma Dahl, a Buckskill Winter Club figure skating instructor and East Hampton native, provides youngsters with the foundation they need “to level up — whether it’s speed skating, hockey, or figure skating.”

In an otherwise quiet shoulder season, this weekend brings Bronco Campsey in the state wrestling tournament and the county Class D championship boys basketball game between Bridgehampton and St. Pius V.

Figure skaters glided and hockey players collided at the Buckskill Winter Club’s ice rink last weekend, raising money for the Katy’s Courage Foundation.

Back to the Bees-Porters wars on the hardwood, and when Montauk Rugby made good in major league play.

Matthew Ward's curatorial approach at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center is to develop projects that create a dialogue between the regionally historical and the contemporary.

Laura Darrell's first full-length play is about three generations of a New England family forced to grapple with end-of-life issues.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host an exhibition tour, a "drawing happening," and a concert by the Sons of Town Hall, a pair of 19th-century vagabonds.

An 1834 portrait of Ephraim Byram, a prominent Sag Harbor astronomer, clockmaker, engineer, and bookbinder, has been acquired by Preservation Long Island.

Curator leads tour of the Charlotte Park exhibition at the Parrish Art Museum, and artists hold forth at the Southampton Arts Center.

A music festival benefit, an "All the President's Men" screening, a Big Easy fund-raiser, classical piano in Southampton, an a cappella group in East Hampton, jazz at Bay Street and the Masonic Club, and more.

The Montauk Brewing Company's Surf Beer Golden Ale is now being served on all of JetBlue's national and international flights.

A class at Park Place illuminates the wines of Burgundy, and a fund-raiser for Project Most features an array of soups made by local chefs.

A house under construction in Wainscott experienced heavy damage after a fire tore through it Friday morning. 

East Hampton Town is looking to settle with the plaintiffs who sued to block its attempt to close the town airport in 2022 and reopen it with restrictions meant to address town residents’ years of complaints, Supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez announced at a town board work session Tuesday.

The work being done to respond to damage from the southern pine beetle on Napeague and in Hither Hills State Parks will continue over the course of “several winters,” according to Lynn Bogan, assistant deputy director for stewardship at the New York State Department of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation.

Long before the name “Rowdy Hall” was adopted by a popular East Hampton Village bar and eatery (now in Amagansett), it was a boarding house: Mrs. Harry Hamlin’s Rowdy Hall. The building, now a single-family house, still stands at 111 Egypt Lane, although currently it’s floating, suspended six feet above a hole. When it’s lowered again, it will be on a new foundation.