This paper's been around so long it was writing about the forward-thinking plan to put numbers on the buildings lining Main Street before the turn of the 20th century. And a lot more ripped from past pages.

Kudos, kvetches, and plain old commentary. It's The Star's bulging mailbag.

According to federal statistics, child drownings continue to be the leading cause of death among children from 1 to 4 years old.

In a resort community like ours, there are beach days . . . and then there are days when there is, as the kids complain, "nothing to do."

Footing is simply shuffling along in the water, toes in the sand or mud, feeling for the characteristic immobility and sharp edges of a clam alive in its shell.

Is this July 9 birthday coincidence not astonishing? Daughter, father, grandfather, and best friend?

A dip at Noyac's Long Beach gives rise to thoughts of where a guy's been, and what's been happening on the South Fork over the last two decades.

Down the road I found a cream-colored, brown-speckled pony staked to a post in a farmer's yard. He was stunted, thick-barreled, short-necked. My stack of bills and quarters was enough, and a horsewoman was born.

Here. Now. Real estate.

Lauralee Jo Kelly and Andrew George Stenerson of Amagansett were married on June 21, the summer solstice, in a private afternoon ceremony at the East Hampton Nature Trail.

My good friend Robert Cugini, who hails from Seattle, has served as a valued deckhand for many years when bay scallop season opens in early November. But lobsters are a different ballgame.

James Wood, son of the Bonac basketball legend Kenny Wood, has been billed as “the next face of the Washington Nationals’ franchise.” He lived up that billing in his debut last week.

John Kernell’s golfing efforts at Montauk Downs were immortalized in a Jack Graves column in 1999, plus a celebration of the late John Villaplana, Eastern Long Island Soccer League all-star.

With three East Hamptoners in the lineup, the Sag Harbor Whalers sailed to a 6-0 win over the South Shore Clippers in a Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League game at Sag Harbor’s Mashashimuet Park Sunday afternoon. The Whalers were in third place as of that day.

It's a rough job but someone has to do it: East has taken one for the team and taste-tested the season's most delicious-sounding beverages in search of the ultimate, definitive cocktail for the summer of 2024. We found it at Townline BBQ: the strawberry mezcalita.

East Hampton fire trucks and police cars greeted the Little League 10-and-under all-star softball team at around 9:30 p.m. on July 3 as the joyful players returned here after defeating their Riverhead peers 5-3 in the District 36 championship game played at Stotzky Memorial Park.

Zibby Owens is the head of a publishing house, owner of a bookstore, founder of a media company, host of a popular literary podcast, and the author of two books.

Judith Hudson's current exhibition at the Tripoli Gallery takes aim at mortality with a sure painterly hand and an astute sense of humor.

This summer's Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival will feature 12 concerts centered on the themes of transformation and love.

On a freezing December day in 1988, Frank Ganley pulled a Bonac school buddy — unconscious and sinking fast — from the icy underwater of Gardiner's Bay, after he fell overboard from a lobster boat called the Captain Kidd. Little did Ganley know that the near-death incident would drive a lifetime of ocean lifesaving.