Varied, thoughtful, from the gut: It’s the week in reader comment.

It is time to ask whether the daily responsibilities of town board members may serve to maintain the status quo and prevent adequate forward thinking.

With lots of Thanksgiving cooking about to take over kitchens, it is a good time to take another look at gas stoves, for health reasons and for the environment.

There are no understory plants any more. No saplings coming up. The Quercus alba acorns I may manage to grow into small trees could help preserve the species.

Don’t name your business Hampton-whatever. It just sounds generic.

From the comic stage to the world stage.

Money can’t buy you love, no, nor can it buy you peace of mind, engaged as you might well be in the constant pursuit of it.

Playwright, lyricist, actor, debtor, here is John Howard Payne on the 200th anniversary of the unveiling of his song “Home Sweet Home.”

The latest reported deals across the South Fork.

A steel-hulled fishing vessel out of Montauk named Act I began sinking Wednesday morning about five nautical miles south of Watch Hill, R.I., east of Fishers Island. The Coast Guard Station in Montauk was called to assist.

Regional planning at the nexus of client interests and local zoning laws will be the topic Thursday night when a panel of architects gets together at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor at 7.

The South Fork community continues to rally around Jeffrey Yusko, a longtime Wainscott resident and former East Hampton High School gym teacher who was hit by a van while riding his bicycle in Sagaponack on May 5.

In “Fierce Ambition” Jennet Conant resurrects a tenacious female war correspondent, Maggie Higgins, largely ignored by journalistic history.

East Hampton Village police nabbed a man and a woman from Queens on Friday who they say match the description of shoplifters who hit the Balenciaga store twice this year, once on July 1 and again on Sept. 17. A spokesperson for Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney said by email on Tuesday that there was "no indication" that the pair are connected to the organized gang from Newark, N.J., who carried out a dramatic daytime handbag heist at the shop in March 2022.

The Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center, once known as the East Hampton Daycare and Learning Center, wants to hear from its alumni and their parents for a special project: a now-and-then style "book of stories."

Mary Boochever decided early on that her art would be motivated by her interest in color, a preoccupation that has been informed by her deep research into such sources as theosophy, alchemy, Kabbalah, feng shui, and Chinese medicine, all of which view color as a dynamic principle.

Bay Street Theater’s production of “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s still-timely drama, features nearly flawless performances and swiftly paced direction, in what The Star’s reviewer calls a “searing new production.”

“Maestro,” Bradley Cooper’s film about Leonard Bernstein's life and marriage, with Mr. Cooper in the title role, was well received at the Hamptons International Film Festival’s screening, after which Bernstein’s children expressed their admiration for the film.

There’s a story to “Now and Then,” the Beatles’ final song, and it involves a decades-old cassette recording by John Lennon, the use of advanced technology to produce a clear Lennon vocal, and the efforts of Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and the late George Harrison.

The filmmaker Williams Cole talks about two current projects, Barbara Kopple’s documentary “Gumbo Coalition,” which he co-produced, and “Rebel Wife,” a work in progress about his great-grandmother, an Irish revolutionary.