When I’m out pursuing codfish, I always start off using a diamond jig. I also use a diamond jig when I fish for weakfish, sea bass, and bluefish. The same lure is also used when I pursue striped bass from my boat. Old habits are hard to break.

We’re writing in the hope that the East Hampton Village Board has not forgotten Roy Lee Mabery. It is in his memory that the basketball courts — recently bulldozed at Herrick Park — were dedicated.

Going from place to place on two wheels on the South Fork is nerve-racking.

The spring rush can also be seen in the letters to the editor of this paper.

What we need around here is a hedgerow movement.

The pleasure and pain of the all-nighter.

Maybe if I were less attentive to bed-making, my other attempts at tidying up might rise in estimation.

We need to get the word out to Lyme-infected mothers-to-be and to women of childbearing age who have mysterious, systemic health problems with no clear cause.

There will be a fund-raiser on Sunday from noon to 9 p.m. at the Clubhouse for Larry's Fire Safety House, an effort in conjunction with the East Hampton Village Foundation to build and operate a mobile trailer to teach kids and adults about fire safety using safe but realistic simulations.

It’s a truncated week in “The Way It Was,” but still, some things never change: mysterious movie production here, the scourge of Lyme disease, and the Montauk Lighthouse needing work.

"We didn't plan this, but it worked out beautifully," Chris Mandato, East Hampton High School's band teacher and music department coordinator, said of the special distinction Thursday's large-ensemble concert holds: The band, orchestra, and chorus will each perform an original song written by a Long Island musician with a connection to East Hampton.

Leading off? A letter breaking down the structure of the letters section itself. And more from The Star’s stable of readers and commentators.

So many L.L.C.s . . . it’s real estate in the Hamptons.

The Springs and Montauk Schools successfully passed cap-busting budgets Tuesday night, but in Sag Harbor the Marsden Street purchase went down while everything else there won approval. In Wainscott, voters rejected a contested budget proposal.

The Springs and Montauk Schools successfully passed cap-busting budgets Tuesday night, but in Sag Harbor the Marsden Street purchase went down while everything else there won approval. In Wainscott, voters rejected a contested budget proposal.

The life of Bunny Mellon, a visionary of taste and style who knew immense privilege and cataclysmic loss.

"To recognize creative ambition in all forms," the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton is offering up two $5,000 college scholarships to high school seniors who will be pursuing environmental studies, science, horticultural design, or the literary, visual, or performing arts.

Rowdy Hall plans a move to Amagansett in the space most recently occupied by Main Street Tavern after Labor Day. It will remain open at its present location through the summer.

Since taking the helm of the Southampton Arts Center, Christina Strassfield has brought a sense of purpose and a vision to the institution, based on her long tenure as curator and head of the museum at Guild Hall.

The Peter Marino Art Foundation in Southampton will open with exhibitions of work by Georg Baselitz, a German neo-expressionist, and Erwin Wurm, an Austrian sculptor, along with photographs by Eugene Atget and Priscilla Rattazzi.