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.”

Your weekly, localized real estate report.

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.

Paul Harding longlisted, Richard Brockman as survivor, Fran Castan and Canio Pavone read.

The wood sculptures of Jonathan Shlafer range from tall and sinewy to squat and abstract, tribalistic totems to biomorphic forms, all raw and unfinished, allowed to carry on a dialogue with nature’s weathering forces.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's full schedule has interviews of Paul Simon and Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro," and much more.

The Hamptons International Film Festival's full schedule has interviews of Paul Simon and Todd Haynes, Bradley Cooper’s “Maestro," and much more.

The current exhibition at the Southampton Arts Center, "Change Agents: Women Collectors Shaping the Art World," is a many layered thing. If ever an exhibition shared a multiplicity of viewpoints, backgrounds, and ideas, this would be it, even if its curators' focus is narrowed to artwork procured solely by women.

The Sag Harbor Song Festival will bring six young opera stars to The Church in Sag Harbor for three programs of opera, operetta, musical theater, and more, with music ranging from Mozart and Verdi to Sondheim and Sonny Bono.