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Deep Concerns on Marsden Street

In under two weeks’ time, Sag Harbor School District voters will be asked if they approve of a $9.4 million proposal to buy five residential vacant lots on Marsden Street understood to be for an expansion of school athletic fields. We have concerns.

The Mast Head: Slimes of All Sorts

Time is ticking towards Cerberus’s launch day, which means there is a lot to do before Nick the boat-mover shows up.

Point of View: Enlivening Ennui

I should have read the Rotten Tomatoes critics’ and audience’s reviews more thoroughly before taking Mary to “Showing Up” in Sag Harbor on a recent rainy Sunday.

Gristmill: Captain Canuck

Revisiting Gregory Clark, newspaperman, outdoorsman, critic of modernity.

Guestwords: On the Old Back Lots

Contested Marsden Street in Sag Harbor? As kids we called the area the back lots. Here’s its story.

The Way It Was for May 4, 2023

From 1998, a less-than-enthusiastic assessment of the state of downtown East Hampton. And more from The Star of yore.

Letters to the Editor for May 4, 2023

It was a choice week in the Land of Letters. Read on.

Recorded Deeds 05.04.23

Real estate news, South Fork-style.

A Party for the Lifeguards

The Hampton Lifeguard Association's summer kick-off party, which supports East Hampton's lifeguard, junior lifeguard, and Nipper Guard training programs, will be held on Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Clubhouse in Wainscott.

Lacrosse: The Good, the Bad, and the Honored

East Hampton's girls lacrosse team took two last week, while the South Fork boys squad honored five seniors before a game with league-leading Ward Melville.

Too Talented to Ignore

Exploring the roots of Mel Brooks’s comedic greatness, from the Lower East Side to the Borscht Belt.

South Fork Poetry: ‘Full Flower Moon’

The latest in a series of poems about moons and the Algonquin tribe.

Tennis Players Eye the Postseason

The East Hampton High School boys tennis team continued undefeated in league play last Thursday, easily turning back the Ross School here 6-1.

Bonac Softballers Shut Out North Forkers

The East Hampton High School softball team extended its winning streak to four by mercying Southold-Greenport-Mattituck 18-0 on the North Fork Friday. The Bonackers are now 5-8.

Lorraine Dusky: Writing for Impact

In the revised edition of her book “Hole in My Heart,” Lorraine Dusky advocates for the rights of adoptees to access their birth records, but cautions that adoptions don’t guarantee happy outcomes for the babies.

Miriam Schapiro Reconsidered at Firestone

An exhibition and panel discussion at Eric Firestone Gallery establish the wide ranging originality of Miriam Schapiro’s body of work, which included, but went far beyond strictly feminist content.

Julie and Blake: A Remarkable Collaboration

The Sag Harbor Cinema will celebrate the collaboration between Julie Andrews and her husband Blake Edwards with an exhibition of rare photographs, sketches, artworks, and other memorabilia, as well as a screening of “S.O.B.”

Oh, the Artists They Knew!

The new exhibition at the Pollock-Krasner House features artworks and other objects from more than 30 friends listed in Pollock and Krasner’s address books.

History Captured by Harry Benson in Southampton

Photographs by Harry Benson that bring to life seven decades of political and cultural history will be at the Southampton Arts Center.

Sex and Sag Harbor?

“Is There Still Sex in the City?,” Candace Bushnell’s one-woman show, will come to The Church in Sag Harbor for one night only, and tickets are selling fast.