Our Fabulous Variety Show's "Tap: A Celebration of Rhythm," hitting the stage at the Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center for two shows on Saturday, will give folks from these parts plenty of reasons to head west. Chief among them: Several dozen of the performers are local students who have been honing their craft at O.F.V.S.'s studios in East Hampton.

Kathy Masterson, the East Hampton School District’s athletic director, and a cafeteria-full of parents and friends commended the student-athletes of the class of 2024 at a senior awards dinner on June 4.   

East Hampton High’s Hall of Fame committee has named this year’s inductees: Cole Brauer, who recently sailed solo around the world, Ashley West Harvey, an all-state and all-county cross-country and track star when a student here, and the 1995 county-championship baseball team.

According to an insurance group’s study, fatal accidents at intersections dropped by almost 25 percent in cities where the use of stop-light cameras was widespread.

More than 56 years after he first wrote for this newspaper, Jack Graves will be inducted into the Long Island Journalism Hall of Fame by the Press Club of Long Island at an awards banquet in Woodbury.

A proposed traffic circle at the intersection of Long Lane, Stephen Hand’s Path, and Two Holes of Water Road in East Hampton is a road sign of sorts pointing at the unintended effects of growth. 

Cerberus, my 1979 sloop, remains where I left it in October, at a marina on the Connecticut River. The plan is to get it back into the water soon.

Besides touchy, what is “local,” anyway?     

“I’m happy . . . I know it may not be politically correct these days to say so, but, yes, happy, I confess.”

After D-Day, why did it take the Allies 11 months to make it from Normandy to Berlin, when normally it’s a day’s drive?

Varied, various, and voluminous, it’s The Star’s weekly outlay of reader comment.

A corpse, well advanced in its decomposition, mysteriously washed up off Gardiner’s Island in 1899. And more ghastly stories ripped from the pages of Ye Olde Star.

Janet Schellinger Halliday of Sag Harbor, a waitress, house cleaner, and scallop enthusiast, died on May 18 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. She was 99.

Audrey White, a gardener, interior designer, and former Amagansett resident, died at home in San Marcos, Calif., on June 2. She was 90.

Rose Marie Schultz, who was known as Tink, a dedicated horsewoman, died of Alzheimer’s disease at home in Springs on May 29. She was 85. 

This tintype photo from the Fowler family photographs shows young Dorothy Horton seated in front of what is likely the Fowler House in East Hampton.

Newly reported real estate deals, Montauk to Southampton Village.

Ahead of early voting for the Democratic primary election in the First Congressional District, a debate between John Avlon and Nancy Goroff covered many topics in only an hour, ranging from climate change, to social media, to gun violence and antisemitism. It was a polite affair in which the candidates often agreed with each other and didn’t engage in crosstalk.

On Friday, Justice Jerry Garguilo of the Supreme Court of Suffolk County ruled that the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association, a nonprofit that had served the village since 1975, could no longer exist, and ordered it dissolved. 

“I need more activism,” said Sagaponack Mayor William Tillotson when asked why he decided to campaign alongside two new candidates for village board on the Piping Plover Party line. Four candidates are vying for two trustee seats, each with a two-year term, and the mayor is hoping for a shakeup in the election, which will be held on Friday, June 21, from noon to 9 p.m.