The message the Republican Party offers Long Island voters centers on a distrust of government, as well as the coded racism in its fixation on crime.

Beginning in 2019, the so-named South Fork Commuter Connection was supposed to take a bite out of the weekday morning and afternoon “trade parade” of bumper-to-bumper work vans and delivery trucks.

I am now on my second plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, at a combined gas and electric of 100 or more miles per gallon the way I drive it.

Adventures at the Whitney, on the High Line, and in a lost New York.

I had no Covid symptoms, but that apparently, according to what I read, wasn’t necessarily a cause for celebration.

From our correspondent in Pennsylvania comes a tribute to an illustrator for 50 straight years of Christmas cards that are works or art.

A snapshot of the South Fork real estate scene.

On development and preservation, Star readers weigh in.

Gentle reader, it happened here . . .

Theresa Whelan, who had a long and distinguished law career on Long Island, died of cancer at East End Hospice in Westhampton Beach on Dec. 26. A resident of Wading River, she was 60.

A couple of professional historians cut through the agenda-driven amateurism that’s crippling civic discourse.

Margaret M. Johnson, author of 13 cookbooks, including "Teatime in Ireland," will talk about teacups at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor on Friday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. 

John Haubrich successfully juggles careers as a painter with a long exhibition resume, an art director at Fordham University, and, most recently, running a pop-up gallery in his studio.

A real-life drowning inspired Sam Wagner's screenplay about a haunted house on East Hampton's Middle Lane.

A new digital catalogue raisonne from Hauser & Wirth Institute illuminates the mature and later career of the Abstract Expressionist painter Franz Kline.

The Church will host the co-owners of Canio's Books, who will talk about the challenges of bookselling in the 21st century, and LayeRhythm, a New York dance troupe that will be in residence there.

An award-winning Indian epic will be screened at the Sag Harbor Cinema, followed by a talk with the director and an Indian buffet from Saaz restaurant to follow.

An acting class from Josh Gladstone and Kate Mueth, a round-table discussion about winter gardening, and Disney animated films at the Montauk Library.

Almond will host Andrina Wekontash Smith at its next Artists and Writers dinner on Monday, and Nick and Toni's has a Winter in Austria wine-pairing dinner coming up on Jan. 26.

At a loss as to what to do with ashes from your fireplace or woodstove? Share the Harvest Farm has an answer.