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Bonac Wrestlers Second in Sprig Tourney

East Hampton High’s wrestling team was the runner-up in the 45th Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament it hosted on Saturday, while the Bonac boys swimmers started a tough league schedule last week.

Hall of Fame Inductions, Tip-Off Tourney on Tap

Three athletes and the 1953-54 boys basketball team are to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame Saturday, and the Kendall Madison hoops tournament starts here Friday night.

25 Years Ago in Bonac Sports for Dec. 7, 2023

A visit from South Africa, a season when the Bonac boys basketball team was flying high, and more from the sports reportage of yore.

The Way It Was for December 7, 2023

One hundred and twenty-five years ago it snowed so much roads and railways were impassible for days. May it be so again.

Letters to the Editor for December 7, 2023

Thanks, praise, complaints, and Dr. Molly: It’s a busy week in reader comment.

Contrarian Wanted

The incoming East Hampton Town Board has a opportunity to make local government better in the form of filling a vacancy created by Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez moving to the supervisor’s post.

More Than a Gun Range

One of the surprises coming out of the ongoing controversy over the Maidstone Gun Club land lease from East Hampton Town is what else has gone on there other than shooting and gun education.

Full Clark Griswold

’Tis the season to be jolly, whether you like it or not, and East Hampton’s overheated (and occasionally silly) civic discourse on holiday lights has arrived right on time. 

The Mast-Head: Prior Conditions

Present-day ideas about land rights on the East End can be traced back to the English, who set out their plantations on the Island in the middle of the 17th century, and it is illuminating to see what laws came first.

Gristmill: Where the Sidewalk Ends

Bring the mini excavator. Throw a bone to put-upon pedestrians. Noyac Road needs a sidewalk.

Point of View: In Absentia on Thanksgiving

I had a photo of myself smiling and holding a can of Spam at an otherwise unoccupied candlelit dining table sent to our eldest daughter’s house in Perrysburg, Ohio, where most everyone in our family had gathered for Thanksgiving.

Guestwords: Football Healing

A case is made for the 1973 Bonac football team’s inclusion in East Hampton High’s Hall of Fame — and memories are triggered.

Recorded Deeds 12.07.23

So many L.L.C.s . . . it’s the new South Fork real estate report.

A 'Fabulous' Christmas Show

The curtain rises Friday on Our Fabulous Variety Show's take on the classic "A Christmas Carol" story, starring a character called Jacob Marley McFly, lots of time-travel high jinks and ghosts of 1980s past, "and so much dancing," says one of its directors, Anita Boyer.

Suspect in Hate Crime Caught In Act, D.A. Says

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Montauk man said to be responsible for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases in the hamlet on Oct. 30 and Nov. 11.

Suspect in Hate Crime Caught In Act, D.A. Says

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney on Tuesday announced the arrest of a Montauk man said to be responsible for spray-painting swastikas and antisemitic phrases in the hamlet on Oct. 30 and Nov. 11.

On Wooley Pond

In his collection of essays Ralph Sneeden’s muse is the waters of North Sea and the South Shore, from boating to surfing, from boyhood to late middle age.

Hanukkah Lights Up Around Town

For Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights celebrated by Jews every winter, eight days of menorah lightings and other festivities are planned from Bridgehampton to Montauk beginning Thursday night.

Charting Her Own Course

Linda K. Alpern’s photographic portraits reflect the trust her subjects have in her and her singular ability to capture a unique moment in time.

Dysfunction for the Holidays on Film

“Merry Good Enough,” set to be screened at LTV, is a mix of dark comedy and drama about a family’s dysfunction that shifts into high gear when the mother disappears on Christmas Eve.