In this photo, the artists Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Robert Motherwell (1915-1991), and Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) chat in front of one of de Kooning’s paintings at the Fourth Annual Invitational Exhibition at Guild Hall.

East Hampton Town officials decided yesterday to postpone the celebration of its 375th anniversary because of the rain forecast for Saturday.

Samuel Fertig, a former advertising executive who lived on Harbor View Lane in Springs and in Manhattan, died at home in Springs last Thursday. He was 85 and had been diagnosed with lymphoma six months earlier.

Gerald Joseph Granozio, a writer, teacher, and marketing executive formerly of East Hampton, died on Aug. 21 in Rye, N.Y. He was 84 and had been in failing health since a heart attack in January.

A graveside service for Pamela R. Cullum, a descendant of the King family, which goes back many generations here, will take place on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m. at Cedar Lawn Cemetery on Cooper Lane. A reception at the American Legion Hall in Amagansett will follow.

There’s bad news for anglers in NOAA’s analysis of its annual recreational fishing survey.

Last week was an especially good one for East Hampton High’s girls swimming, boys soccer, and field hockey teams.

George Cafiso is about to be inducted into East Hampton High School’s Hall of Fame for the second time, as a member of its 1953-54 boys basketball team. Here he talks about that and the 1952 football team.

There was a lot going on in September of 1998, including the day cricket came to Southampton.

Smoke from distant fires, meditation with a yogi, celebs in Montauk, and giant, ugly houses in the dunes — some things never change.

A County Legislature candidate introducing herself. A pungent tale of a child defecating inside a market. Who else but The Star has such a range of letters to the editor?

The Villages of Sag Harbor and North Haven suffer from terrible traffic, much of it originating near Long Wharf. Adding a hundred or more people stepping off a cruise ship would make the chaos unsustainable.

September at summer’s end feels as if the world is in a kind of abeyance.

I am a superfan of the — terrible, awful, no-good — television franchise “The Bachelor.”

When Cormac McCarthy died this summer, I didn’t go to one of his late novels, I went to “Blood Meridian.”

I was taken to task recently for not giving as much space to the Travis Field memorial softball tournament as I did to the Artists and Writers Game, but both events were noteworthy.

Closing up our summer retreat was when I first experienced what my grandmother called “the pain of a heavy heart.”

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Donations of gently used baby gear, including equipment, toys, and clothing, are now being accepted at the Children's Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton for an upcoming swap-n-shop event.

The 30 stories in Francis Levy’s “The Kafka Studies Department” add a lightly absurdist take on human psychology to the landscape of literary brevity.