It was time for East Hampton Town Hall to join many other New York municipal governments in hiring a professional administrator to oversee both budgetary and day-to-day functions.

Among all of the fund-raisers that go on here, not one makes so much money in so little time as the Jan. 1 “polar” plunges.

A letter writer this week floated the idea that this newspaper sponsor a contest for the best business district holiday decorations next December.

My grandmother was born in the house that makes up the core of town offices on Pantigo Road. With a new supervisor taking the corner office there, it seemed a good time to offer up a bit of its history.

I tend to refer to cocktails of various kinds, but that’s not so much because I’m a drinker, as that I like the idea of a well-stocked bar cart of shiny bottles.

The efficacy, benefits, and weirdness of hypnosis.

Aside from world peace, what else am I wishing in vain for in the new year, immortality apparently being out of the question? I’m just hoping to stay connected.

Much of what ails the world today is a result of Western governments arbitrarily dividing foreign lands that they have colonized or occupied with no consideration of national sovereignty or demographics.

What’s old is new again: notes from the East Hampton zoning code battles of 25 years ago. And much else of interest from The Star of yesteryear.

New year, new load of reader comment.

News of real estate moves, Montauk to Southampton Village.

The East Hampton Healthcare Foundation will offer influenza shots, health screenings, the opportunity to apply for colorectal screenings, and assistance making appointments for zero-cost mammograms and Pap tests for uninsured women at a health fair Friday starting at 11 a.m. in the St. Luke's Episcopal Church meeting room.

Record crowds turned out for New Year's Day polar plunges at Main Beach in East Hampton and Beach Lane in Wainscott, helping to raise some $40,000 for local food pantries.

It's a happy new year, indeed, for people in New York who earn minimum wage. New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Dec. 27 that the minimum wage for Long Islanders will now be $16.

With “Quiet Street,” Nick McDonell has penned the unlikeliest of memoirs, detailing success and more success among the one percenters.

East Hampton Town will have a town administrator for the first time, there will be new members appointed to the planning board, zoning board of appeals, and architectural review board, and a new chairman for the A.R.B. in 2024. 

"It's such a small town, but the history is so vast," the East Hampton Historical Society director said. And he's looking for a place to store it all.

“The Glass Show” at Halsey McKay Gallery features an impressive variety of treatments and uses of the medium by 25 artists.

The Fireside Sessions with Nancy Atlas are back at Bay Street on Saturday, along with Verdi’s “Nabucco” from The Met: Live in HD.

Bill Evans, WLNG’s Emmy-winning meteorologist, is up next in The Church’s Knowledge Friday series, a Tom Petty tribute band will rock the Suffolk in Riverhead, the Cherry Bombs will bring '80s music to Manhattan, and winter gardens are the subject at the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons.