Of those standing outside the Hopping family home in Wainscott in this photograph taken sometime after 1880, Mary Jane Mabry Walker (circa 1865-1942), far left, was recently identified by her family.

The privately owned Montauk Airport could see a nearly 100-percent increase in summertime flight operations if air traffic were restricted at East Hampton Town Airport, the town board was told last Thursday during a presentation of a draft generic environmental impact statement.

East Hampton Town’s portion of the federal Army Corps of Engineers’ Fire Island to Montauk Point beach nourishment project, which calls for the placement of 450,000 cubic yards of sand on downtown Montauk’s ocean beach, is nearing 70-percent completion this week.

Since John Avlon announced his candidacy, the field of Democrats hoping to challenge Representative Nick LaLota in November has shrunk to four, and one of the two who suspended his campaign has endorsed Mr. Avlon.

The Star has received word that Allan Weisbecker, “a surfer, a seeker, an author, and, above all, a pirate,” in the words of a friend, died on Sept. 24 in Northern California. The cause of death is uncertain. Mr. Weisbecker, who spent many years in Montauk, was 75.

Norah McCormack, a social worker who volunteered with the food pantry in Sag Harbor and the Friends of the John Jermain Memorial Library, died last Thursday at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a stroke. She was 81.

Sally Jenkins’s “The Right Call” traces athletic success under pressure to an abiding concern with seven foundational elements, discipline and intention among them.

The Pierson (Sag Harbor) and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams have berths in the Feb. 29 playoffs, and Buckskill Winter Club’s ice show Saturday will benefit the Katy’s Courage Foundation.

From glory days of Bonac wrestling to a shocking hoops upset to rugby in Fiji, it happened here.

The old Promised Land Fish Factory smell test, and much more down The Star’s Memory Lane.

The new plan confines the controversial developer's proposed mixed-use building to only two lots, at 7 and 11 Bridge Street in Sag Harbor. Neither contains structures that contribute to the Sag Harbor Village Historic District.

Thanks go to Thiele, while Ken Dorph, the dismissed Santa, has his say, and a whole lot more in another hefty helping of Star missives.

The Suffolk County Regional Emergency Medical Services Council just got a look at a fractured East Hampton ambulance corps and a reckless handling by the village.

The thankless task of the letters editor.

Someone pointed out to me that a mahogany floor in a beach house did not really “go.”

This is the first time I’ve been alone in this house for more than 24 hours, ever. I wander the rooms and check my pockets.

Clarity through fasting.

The real Herrick Park is for sports.

How can friends who’ve headed to Florida or the Bahamas possibly get through a winter without the visceral remembrances of snowy days?

South Fork real estate transactions from the end of last year.