I was supposed to take my boat to check my lobster traps. It had been about 10 days. I also planned to do some diamond jigging for striped bass in Plum Gut. None of it happened.

East Hampton High’s boys and girls track teams impressed at the big invitational meet here, while the Bonac and Ross School tennis teams chased titles.

Bonac’s baseball team needed to win all three games of last week’s series with East Islip to make the playoffs, but the task proved to be too great.

Hey, parents and fans, get all your coming high school sports action right here.

The kids of the Springs and Amagansett Schools need our support.

Parsing the Wainscott School District’s budget proposal.

On square footage, a key argument that the don’t-count-the-basement crowd cites is that what happens underground has no impact on neighbors or the community.

Think what we may about the yearly climate cycle on the East End, some kind of seasonal calendar is needed to anticipate when to take the dahlia and tomato seedlings outside.

It’s been a long time since I owned any shoes that felt worthy of a Polaroid or that seemed to reflect anything in particular about my character or my autobiography.

How Yondr pouches remade one school’s lunchtime.

I wonder if it’s all right to wear warmup pants and a Bonac hoodie to the Press Club of Long Island’s Hall of Fame induction ceremony.

It’s typical of people my age to look back with nostalgia and say it’s too bad everything has gone to hell. But I look forward.

School board elections and other matters of consequence in this week’s reader comment.

One self-styled prophet predicted the wrath of God would be brought down on the Atheneum in Sag Harbor shortly before it burned to the ground. Read all about it, and much more ripped from The Star’s storied pages.

Tuesday at 5 p.m. marked the cutoff for the submission of petitions to get on the ballot for the June elections in East Hampton Village, and with no one other than Mayor Jerry Larsen, Deputy Mayor Christopher Minardi, and Sandra Melendez, a village board member, submitting a petition, the incumbents will run unopposed. 

Calling all ARF pets and their human companions: the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will celebrate its 50th anniversary on Saturday with "a tail-wagging pet fair dedicated to the joy our cats and dogs bring and the impact of ARF's rescue efforts for the last 50 years, and the next 50 years to come," the organization said in an announcement.

This year, school budgets across the South Fork are hit hard by an economic inflation factor of more than 4 percent, drastic increases to health and retirement benefits for teachers and staff, and the need to serve students still recovering, academically and emotionally, from the Covid-19 pandemic without the benefit of relief money from the state and federal governments.

There will be a rally on Friday at 3:45 p.m. at the Hampton Bays train station to rustle up support for increased train service on the South Fork Commuter Connection.

After a career in magazine publishing, Susan Kaufman has captured New York City and the Hamptons in two books of eye-catching color photographs.

“The Hearing Test,” Eliza Barry Callahan’s revelatory debut novel, finds our heroine chasing down the cause of a deafness as mysterious as it is sudden.