In 1949 the village green flagpole came crashing down in a high wind. Read all about it, and much more ripped from the pages of Ye Olde Star, right here.

It’s the bouncing Bonac mailbag.

Spring is here, and as our attention refocuses out of doors, this is a good moment to take a breath and consider the poor birds.

While Plum Island remains vulnerable to a sale under the terms of a 2008 act of Congress, we should look to Camp Hero as an example.

Seeing a photograph of a rusted car frame tumbling from a dune recently reminded me of a devastating northeaster 62 years ago.

Is it sacrilegious to nose-poke at church on Easter Sunday?

Just one more Dunkin’ Donuts franchise here would make it right.

One person’s detritus is another’s precious possession.

Taiwan just got rocked, 30 years ago it was Northridge, California, and it could happen here. What’s it like to ride out the big one?

"Buses providing scheduled commuter services open to the public would be exempted" from the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's central Manhattan congestion-tolling program, according to a breakdown of the plan approved by the M.T.A. board on March 27. That includes the Hampton Jitney bus company.

The real estate report is back, South Fork style.

Summer shares are now available from Quail Hill Farm, one of the country's original community-supported agriculture farms. Family shares, for households of two or more people, and single-person shares as well, run from early June through Halloween, with picking two days a week, including unlimited flowers.

Behold “Language City,” a linguistic Baedeker of New York, especially its outer boroughs, which have become home to so many immigrant populations. But can the new Babel work?

El lunes en la tarde, un raro eclipse solar con casi la totalidad -- entre 83 y 90 por ciento -- será visible en el South Fork. Porque mirar directamente un eclipse puede provocar ceguera, la NASA insta a los espectadores del eclipse por tomar una medida de seguridad crítica de antemano: Obtenga un par de gafas de seguridad con clasificación ISO-12312-2.

On Monday afternoon, a rare solar eclipse with near totality — between 83 and 90 percent — will be visible on the South Fork. Because looking directly at an eclipse can cause blindness, NASA urges eclipse viewers to take a critical safety measure beforehand: Obtain an ISO-12312-2-rated pair of safety glasses. Glasses are available at several places on the South Fork.

Sarah Kautz’s childhood fascination with the Indiana Jones movies anticipated her career in historical anthropology and archaeology that has led her to South Africa, Japan, and the Southampton History Museum.

A drama having its world premiere at LTV Studios is a memory play with a stellar cast that’s written like a jigsaw puzzle through time.

Life sciences, ranging from oceanography to psychiatry, inform two programs at The Church in Sag Harbor this weekend.

Hungarian concert from the choral society, comedy at Bay Street, Special Players’ romp in Mattituck, the sounds of the garden, spring pruning workshop.

Jazz and jamming at the Masonic Temple, Klyph Black and friends at the Talkhouse, Def Leppard and Billy Joel tribute bands in Riverhead.