What was reported to police dispatchers as a "smoldering battery" in a battery substation in East Hampton early Wednesday morning resulted in road closures and halted train service.

The late Nancy Dougherty’s examination of Nazi evil through Reinhard Heydrich, “the puppet master of the Third Reich.”

About 70 firefighters from seven departments battled a massive house fire on Sunday afternoon at 38 Farmstead Lane in Water Mill. One firefighter was treated at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital for heat exhaustion, and was released a short while later.

Wednesday is Active Older Adults Day at the East Hampton Y.M.C.A. RECenter, offering health screenings and a schedule of free events and classes for those who want to stay fit — and, as the Y.M.C.A. says, "senior savvy" — into their silver years.

Memorial Day observances in East Hampton and Sag Harbor Villages on Monday were both solumn and celebratory, as people lined the streets in both villages to salute veterans and remember the fallen. 

Memorial Day observances in East Hampton and Sag Harbor Villages on Monday were both solumn and celebratory, as people lined the streets in both villages to salute veterans and remember the fallen. 

The musical voyage of Tomas Majcherski, an East Hampton native and multi-instrumentalist, has taken him to Ghana, Cleveland, New Orleans, Uruguay, and Paraguay, all the while absorbing the history of jazz in all its manifestations.

The Hampton Theatre Company’s production of John Patrick Shanley’s comedy “The Portuguese Kid” turns a predictable script into an enjoyable night of theater thanks to top-flight performances and a sure directorial hand.

For the Star's annual graduation section, set to be published on June 15, families, friends, and community members are invited to celebrate the Class of 2023 with heartfelt messages and photos.

Music for Montauk’s spring concert will feature a romantic and eclectic mix of music by composers ranging from Barbara Strozzi and Giacomo Puccini to Benjamin Britten, Mary Kouyoumdjian, and Philip Glass.

The Art Barge on Napeague is set to launch its summer schedule of some 40 art classes in mediums ranging from collage to glass fusing to encaustic to watercolor, to name just a few.

La Manga will bring a program of Afro-Colombian culture and music to the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs.

Garden benefit for Neo-Political Cowgirls, Isadora Duncan repertoire at LongHouse, Bach sonatas in Montauk, musical mix at Jewish Center of the Hamptons, Perlman Music Program back on The Rock.

The Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs has opened for the season with two shows with a more-is-more attitude, and both to their credit.

With strawberry season soon upon us, Laura Donnelly provides an international overview of the fruit, a guide on where to find and pick it locally, and recipes.

An age-worthy rosé wine dinner at Nick and Toni’s, Bridgehampton's new farmers market, duck and rosé at Almond, and other tidbits from the culinary front.

JR on the inside and outside of the Parrish, photographers’ group in Springs, an African mural in Southampton, scenes of Black life in Sag Harbor, plus dystopian paintings and geometric abstraction.

Maison Close Montauk on East Lake Drive, which had a grand-opening celebration planned this weekend, was completely ravaged by flames.

There are parades in East Hampton and Sag Harbor Monday, and more observances happening on Sunday and early Monday morning.

The Bonackers’ Meredith Spolarich amassed 1,554 points, more than any of her competitors, in the pentathlon field events at Ward Melville High School on May 21.