News has leaked that the Environmental Protection Agency was working to abandon its fundamental basis for fighting climate change.

Like most towns of any size and history, ours has a few public servants whose service is so exemplary it becomes legendary. Into this category we would place Randy Hoffman.

Among the many community groups hereabout I admire, the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society stands out for its uniqueness of purpose.

We are somewhat view-starved in 2025, having spent 100 years and more cluttering up the joint with signage, driveway gates, ever-higher houses, powerlines, and Green Giant arborvitae.

Once more unto the broken-down car.

The hostile takeover of our airspace started pre-pandemic but was accelerated by it: a collective attempt to sanitize our lives with scents that scream “no germs here.” This is my outcry.

New real estate transactions across the Fabulous Hamptons.

A driver was injured and East Hampton Village Main Street was closed for more than an hour on Wednesday after a massive tree limb fell without warning

"True Value," Alice Hope's ambitious new site-specific installation at LongHouse, is the most recent of her projects using commonplace materials, among them magnets and can tabs, assembled in repetitive but resonant configurations.

Next up at the Southampton Arts Center is "Beyond the Present: Collecting for the Future," an exhibition drawn from the distinctive art collection of Christine Mack.

Coming to LTV are Montauk's Joe Delia with his blues piano and clips from films he has scored, and the cabaret stars Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock in "Hirschfeld's Broadway."

For "Celebrity Autobiography" at Guild Hall, celebs such as Christie Brinkley, Richard Kind, and Carson Kressley will read unintentionally amusing passages from other stars' memoirs.

LongHouse's InsiderOutsider conversation series will feature a discussion between Ella Mahoney, an Indigenous artist and illustrator, and Mago, an artist and curator.

Christopher Engel's artworks integrate collaged materials and references from India, China, the Renaissance, Buddhist deities, and alchemical symbols.

The new exhibition at the Madoo Conservancy examines Sagaponack as a uniquely American village in which artists, writers, and farmers live side by side.

Rhonda Denet and the Silver Fox Strings Trio will bring the music of the female vocalists of Motown to the Montauk Library.

With three HBO comedy specials, five comic albums, and multiple television roles, Paula Poundstone's spontaneous wit will have the Bay Street Theater audience in stitches.

The summer benefit at the Arts Center at Duck Creek in Springs will feature food and drink, a live auction of artworks, and a performance by Kaoru Watanabe.

Nat Butler, a Montauk native, has taken extraordinary photos of N.B.A. players on and off the court over the years, as is abundantly evident in his recently published book, “Courtside: 40 Years of NBA Photography.” At 62, he’s still at it.

On Sunday, I took four of my friends on the water with Capt. Rob Aaronson of the charter boat Oh Brother. It was my first time fishing out of Montauk this season, and it was good to be back home.