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For Vito Brullo

Vito Brullo of East Hampton died on Monday at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He was 78. Visiting hours will be Monday from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.

Holocaust Remembrance Talk in East Hampton

To mark Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Jewish Center of the Hamptons will have Deborah Dwork, director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the City University of New York Graduate Center, speaking after the 11 a.m. service on Sunday.

Pleasing Win on a Pleasant Day

The weather was, for the first time in a while, pleasant on Monday, as was East Hampton High’s 7-1 baseball win here over the Westhampton Beach Hurricanes that day.

Coco Lohmiller Is Honing Her Game

Coco Lohmiller, an eighth grader who lit it up for the Pierson High School girls varsity basketball team in the winter, could have played girls lacrosse or softball this spring, but chose instead to stick to her first love, basketball, as a member of a Huntington-based Empire Amateur Athletic Union team.

Quartet Is First to Qualify for a Y National Final

The RECenter Hurricanes’ 200-meter medley relay team broke two team records last week in qualifying for the national final in that event in Greensboro, N.C., while the Bonac girls track team was defeated here by Westhampton Beach, a perennial power.

On the Water: The Lobster Traps Are In

Flounder is scarce, striped bass are not yet here in sizable numbers, so our columnist set about repairing his lobster traps.

The Way It Was for April 13, 2023

A stroll down The Star’s memory lane.

State News Media Bill a Beginning

Governor Hochul has a chance to pass a critically important lifeline to local journalism as negotiations on New York State’s 2024 budget come down to the wire.

Dire Figures on Chemical Use

We were stunned last week to learn that Suffolk led by a huge margin among all of the counties in New York in pesticide and herbicide use.

The Mast Head: Sawing to the Line

In the basement one evening this week, I began thinking about tools, pacing one’s self, and focusing on the path, instead of the outcome.

The Shipwreck Rose: The Hard Way

Is it possible the pendulum has swung too hard toward time-saving devices, the no-brain zone, and ultraconvenience?

Gristmill: Cut Men

Notes from the barber’s chair.

Point of View: Ah, Spring!

No wonder April’s called the cruelest month.

Guestwords: Zoning’s Perfect Storm

A storm of aggressive and sometimes egregious development is upon us, and the East Hampton Town Building Department is unsupported. This is a disastrous combination.

Recorded Deeds 04.13.23

The week in South Fork real estate.

Man on the Run

For the Paul McCartney superfan, here’s a mammoth tome documenting seemingly every waking moment of his life from 1969 to 1973. 

A Love Letter From a 'Shakespeare Guy'

Richard Horwich, a Shakespeare scholar, has written a memoir about family, friends, academia, and his many years, and encounters, on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

A Journey Back in Time

"Return to a Place by the Sea" at The Church showcases four Black abstract artists with ties to the village’s Eastville/SANS enclave and to each other.

Water, Water Everywhere . . . Or Is It?

The Docs Equinox film festival features three documentaries, panel discussions, receptions, and an information hub, all devoted to protecting and preserving our water.