There have been bitter complaints lately on social media about the trash left behind after soccer matches, softball games, and pickup basketball in our East Hampton parks.

Here on the narrow end of Long Island between the bays and the ocean, the chill lingers longer than elsewhere. Plant carefully.

What we did in April 1985 at Columbia University was righteous. 

When ubiquitous smartphones put a crimp in important proceedings.

Two columns in one: from Palm Springs to NPR’s Uri Berliner.

New York, it’s a wonderful place to spend your golden years — if you mind these few dos and don’ts, that is.

The recent closure of the only tackle shop in downtown Montauk was a blow for fishermen, but all is not lost for those who wet a hook and line in Montauk. The Montauk Anglers Club, right near the Montauk inlet on East Lake Drive, is looking to fill the void left by the departure of Paulie’s by adding more tackle, bait, lures, gear, and services to its already well-stocked marine and tackle store. 

East Hampton’s baseball and softball teams won games at Bonac’s fields and East Hampton’s girls track team defeated Westhampton Beach, a perennial powerhouse.

The South Fork boys lacrosse team, on which a number of East Hampton High School athletes play, had a chance last week to reap some power points in games with Riverhead and Smithtown East, but fell short by one goal on both occasions. In any event, the team, as anyone who has seen it play could attest, is a very good one, capable of giving any opponent all it can handle. 

This week's schedule of games, meets, and athletic events.

A 27-year-old East Hampton woman was injured overnight when she crashed her car into a tree on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, East Hampton Town police said Thursday morning.

From roosters to housing for seniors, this is the week that was.

After several months of delays related to manufacturing, Suffolk County's expansion of on-demand bus service to East Hampton Town is set to begin on Sunday.

Bliss Morehead poetry grant winners read on Shelter Island, and Kimiko Hahn of the North Fork stops by the White House.

There will be a dance party fund-raiser at Rosie's restaurant on Thursday, May 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. to support the East Hampton Education Foundation, which provides thousands of dollars in grants to local teachers each year.

Her work for Military Intelligence took Marguerite Harrison, foreign correspondent and socialite, across the world undercover, fur coat and evening dresses in tow. Incredible? Read on.

La biblioteca de East Hampton ofrece una beca y una oportunidad de empleo para una persona bilingue que esté interesada en una carrera en biblioteconomía y ciencias de la información. La beca es para alguien que habla español e inglés y cubrirá la matrícula completa de una maestría y al mismo tiempo garantizará al beneficiario un trabajo en la biblioteca.

The newest novel from the award-winning writer Simon Van Booy is a linear narrative about a reclusive octogenarian and the mouse she rescues from the elements.

LTV’s production of Martin McDonagh’s play “The Pillowman” brings together an accomplished team of local talent whose members have worked with each other before,

Julie Andrews and Emma Walton Hamilton will be at Bay Street Theater with their new children’s book, and the comedian Joseph Vecsey will perform a live taping of his new show.