There were three arrests for driving while intoxicated in East Hampton Town this week and one in the village.

The manager of Brent’s called police Monday afternoon to say that three or four customers in hunting clothes had been “acting strange” and lingering outside the store. Cleaning staff later discovered a garbage bag filled with deer remains in the Dumpster.

As more people and new businesses flood into East Hampton Town each year, quality of life conflicts are on the rise. Responsibility for dealing with it all falls largely on the Ordinance Enforcement Department, and it needs help.

It is reasonable for the East Hampton Village Board to consider whether leashed dogs should be allowed in Herrick Park. However, there are concerns.

A vote on the back of the ballot this year could transform New York State’s approach to climate change and a range of other environmental and social issues. But where the money goes needs to be watched.

This is the time of the year that deer are killed by vehicles here in great numbers.

Everyone and their sister is selling their own lifestyle these days, attempting to be an influencer. Everyone thinks their own taste is good taste, and almost everyone is wrong.

Andre Dubus’s essay “Giving Up the Gun” has renewed relevance in this political moment and with New York State’s struggles with concealed carry laws.

In the end, we only have each other, and in the end, disembodied, it’s the extent to which we’ve nourished the creative spirit, of mankind, of our country, of our town, of our village, that lives on.

I have a gripe with people who pin appellations on inanimate objects, or on almost anything and everything. I draw the line at labeling automobiles, apartment complexes, houses . . .

Warm remembrances and thanks for good work lead off reader comment this week.

The day the East Hampton Town Board held “an unmomentous meeting,” and much more from The Star of yore.

Our original 13-day vacation had already been cut short, then I tested positive for Covid. Hello to quarantine at home, which was still 420 miles away. For those not in quarantine, the fishing scene bounced back quite nicely after nearly a week of northeasterly wind and rain.

After Friday’s 2-1 loss here to Eastport-South Manor, Don McGovern, who coaches East Hampton High’s boys soccer team, which had just seen a nine-game winning streak snapped, asked if his players could tell him why they’d lost.

On paper, East Hampton’s field hockey game here on Oct. 4 against Comsewogue seemed likely to wind up in favor of the Bonackers, but they had a fight on their hands.

East Hampton High School’s football team lost 20-13 to Amityville here on Saturday, dropping its record to 1-4, but the Bonackers made some big plays, and led 13-12 early in the fourth quarter.

The documentary "Groucho & Cavett" looks back at the erudite talk shows of the late '60s and '70s through the lens of Dick Cavett's long-running program and his association and friendship with Groucho Marx.

The Southampton Cultural Center's new production, Boots on the Ground Theater's "Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll & Hyde Play," reimagines the classic horror tale with madcap comedy and a little drag.

Ghost hunt in Southampton, opera in East Hampton, Motown in Sag Harbor, Liszt and Chopin in Water Mill, garden workshop at Madoo, and more ghosts in Montauk

The Hamptons International Film Festival showed it still had the ability to surprise its guests on Sunday when Hugh Jackman made an unannounced appearance at the screening of his new film, Florian Zeller's "The Son." After the film, he sat down for a chat with David Nugent, the festival's artistic director.