And water quality shall lead them. This week’s Star letters, that is.

We have to listen to the data and the scientists, and what science is telling us now is that the earth is getting hot as hell.

Goodbye to a wonderful citizen who, faithfully, week in and week out, wrote hundreds of letters to the editor of his local paper.

The marsh has been underwater more often this year than the last. I suspect that sea level rise has a lot to do with it.

The water table is very close to the surface here in much of the village and, as the climate changes and the rains increase, it’s only rising.

The “Noyack” spelling has strength, certainty. It amounts to a tribute, and it looks good.

It’s a rare thing to be part of an all-female crew on a sailboat, and yet that’s where I found myself in the middle of Noyac Bay.

Sartiano's, the ultra-upscale Italian restaurant owned by Scott Sartiano, owner of the private membership club Zero Bond in New York, is now taking reservations at the Hedges Inn for its new 80-seat summer pop-up. East Hampton Village officials are keeping a watchful eye on it, even appealing to the State Liquor Authority to question the establishment's liquor license.

Looking ahead to its Disney World competition trip in 2025, Our Fabulous Variety Show, a nonprofit performing arts group, will hold a bake sale fund-raiser on Friday at the East Hampton Farmers Market.

Taylor Barton is on a roll, having released both a novel and a five-song album of music in June.

New show at Montauk Historical Society highlights affordable Leisurama houses that sprouted in Montauk in the '60s.

A new exhibition at the Leiber Collection features sculpture by Bill King and paintings from Connie Fox's 'Sammy's Beach' series.

Unvarnished, unfiltered, and insidery, here are the Beatles on the eve of John Lennon’s assassination, with one heck of a Yoko Ono story to boot.

Every July for over two decades, Montauk has come together in the spirit of Rell Sunn, the surfing champion, to raise money for those in need. This year’s proceeds from the contest will benefit the Montauk Food Pantry and Concerned Citizens of Montauk.

The East Hampton Little League’s U-12 all-star baseball team suffered “a tough loss,” in its manager Chris Carney’s words, in the District 36 championship game versus the North Shore Nationals at Rocky Point on July 10.

An estimated 150 I-Tri girls, members of Theresa Roden’s widely praised empowerment program that is in middle schools spanning Mastic to Montauk, participated Sunday in a youth triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach.

Sag Harbor United tightened the East Hampton 7-on-7 men’s soccer league race by defeating last fall’s champion, Maidstone Market, 4-3 at Herrick Park on July 9.

I trapped 15 lobsters on July 8. That was the good news. The bad was that the Yanmar diesel engine on my Rock Water encountered problems on the return trip to Sag Harbor.

It’s appropriate that Michael Potts will be honored on Sunday afternoon as the Montauk Fishing Legend of the Year at the Montauk Grand Slam fishing tournament that Henry Uihlein has hosted at his marina for nearly three decades.

Poetry fans, take note: From Lucas Hunt in Bridgehampton to Leah Umansky and Joyce Jacobson in Sag Harbor to Bruce Whitacre in both places, readings abound.