For fans of local history as well as of early American furniture, the opening today of the new Dominy Shops Museum on North Main Street is an exciting moment.

The Sag Harbor Village Board did the right thing recently when it proposed handing back development oversight in the waterfront zone to the village planning board.

Congress does not have that much of an obvious effect here, other than perhaps on marginal tax rates for the very rich, but on global warming policy it is a crucial player.

It is a sad state of affairs that all anyone is talking about this summer is traffic.

We were in Massachusetts this week so my daughter could try out for a lacrosse club team based within striking distance of her boarding school.

No trips downtown in August.

Tyrants don’t speak aspirationally, they do not speak hopefully, they don’t say “wouldn’t it be wonderful if.” They bark orders, and woe to him or her who doesn’t carry them out.

The lessons of Barry Commoner, the “Paul Revere of the modern environmental movement,” are now more important than ever.

Real estate action across the South Fork. The latest report.

And the readers will have their say.

The Church, an arts center on Madison Street in Sag Harbor, will have a cocktail reception, chaired by Elisa Rojas Ross, an Emmy Award-winning journalist, to benefit Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island on Thursday night from 5 to 7.

Eileen Myles, whose poems race headlong down the page, is nothing if not consistent, and prolific. Myles’s latest collection is “a Working Life.”

Forget stadium binoculars and nosebleed seats — some 500 people lucky enough to score access into Sirius XM’s exclusive concert by Ed Sheeran on Monday night under a tent at the Stephen Talkhouse in Amagansett were so close to the pop star they could see the sweat glistening on his neck while he performed a solo set that included almost every hit since his first single, “The A Team,” debuted on

Sutton Lynch, an aerial photographer specializing in marine life, spends his days at Atlantic Avenue Beach monitoring the images captured by his drone from high above the water, about 400 yards out from the shore.

The second iteration of the Parrish Art Museum’s “Artists Choose Parrish” exhibitions features selections made by contemporary artists from the museum’s permanent collection that reflect their connections to the chosen artists or artworks.

The first Black Authors Festival will bring eight prominent writers and entrepreneurs from around the country to Sag Harbor’s Breakwater Yacht Club for food, music, readings, a fashion show, and more.

The annual Box Art Auction benefit for East End Hospice will feature inventive and dramatic transformations of cigar or wine boxes by more than 80 artists.

As the Hampton Classic approaches, the timing is right for “Equestrian Life in the Hamptons,” a new coffee-table book by Blue Carreon that is chock full of images and text that tell the story promised by its title.

The Church in Sag Harbor will host a curators' tour of its “Artists on Boxing” exhibition, a reading by Philip Schultz, a workshop devoted to Indian hand drums, a jazz concert, and a writing workshop with Star Black.

The Gyrotonic Method, a form of exercise that stretches and strengthens the body and develops coordination, can be experienced at the Seed Center in East Hampton, a studio owned by Charley Aldred, a former professional ballet dancer.