So what’s it gonna be, college-wise, core curriculum lockdown or pick and choose your classes as you see fit?

The very day that Peter Spacek’s chigger cartoon appeared in our paper two weeks ago I got them.

A road trip to a pioneering surfer’s favorite East End haunts brings a family together.

Richie Winick likes to say that his newish Montauk fine jewelry store on Main Street offers an eclectic range of merchandise for sale in a price range reflective of the hamlet’s seaside-meets-suburbia affect.

A new raft of South Fork real estate deals.

Take a trip into The Star’s storied past, won’t you?

Over the course of 17 years, Susan Lynn Solomon of Amagansett and New York City, a founder and longtime chief executive officer of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, raised more than $400 million to advance the field of stem cell research. Ms. Solomon, who had had only recently stepped down as the organization’s C.E.O., died last Thursday, at home in Amagansett, five years after she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. She was 71.

Lucas Conrad Matthiessen, 69, an editor and writer who also ran a network of clinics for drug and alcohol abusers, died on Aug. 20 at a hospice near his home on City Island in the Bronx. The cause of death was metastatic cancer, said his wife, Claire de Brunner.

A service for Dominic Annacone, an educator who served as principal of Pierson High School and superintendent of the Sag Harbor School District, interim superintendent of the Springs School District, and superintendent of the Wainscott School District, will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on on Wednesday at 11 a.m., followed by interment at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton at 1 p.m. 

The Retreat, a local domestic violence shelter and awareness organization, is seeking high school students to join its Teen Leadership Council.

There are plenty of bluefish by Jessup’s Neck, porgy fishing is solid in many areas, including the east side of Gardiner’s Island. Sea bass too, are mixed in the catch in the deeper water. Farther offshore, tuna — bigeye, bluefin, and yellowfin — remain plentiful, and at the Cartwright grounds south of Montauk, as well as the area near the Block Island windmills, fluke fishing has been good of late.

Homecoming weekend here begins Friday with East Hampton High’s field hockey team facing off against Sayville on the high school’s turf field at 4:30 p.m. Saturday's games and festivities include Hall of Fame inductions, soccer and volleyball matches, cross country meets, a fall festival in the afternoon, and a football game under the lights.

The Bonac field hockey and boys volleyball teams were 3-0 as of Monday, while the footballers drubbed Wyandanch 50-8.

William Huffman, a 29-year-old member of the Full Throttle team that’s based at Chelsea Piers in New York City, won the Steve Tarpinian Memorial Mighty Hamptons Triathlon at Noyac’s Long Beach Sunday morning, topping a field of 314 finishers. 

A 17-foot Boston Whaler caught fire just off the Cedar Island lighthouse by Cedar Point at around 11 a.m. on Sunday, causing its sole occupant, Larry Kane of East Hampton, to dive off approximately 150 feet from the shore. Seconds after he jumped off, he said, the boat was engulfed in flames.

Jeanelle Myers creates singular works of assemblage and collage, tapestries, and quilts from discarded or forgotten natural and man-made materials.

A Pollock-Krasner House exhibition illuminates the life and work of Harold Lehman, an early friend of Jackson Pollock known for his socially conscious work of the 1930s, especially a massive mural on Rikers Island, now gone.

The "last mile" shuttle bus service that takes passengers from the Long Island Rail Road's South Fork Commuter Connection trains to their destinations and back again expanded in East Hampton Town this week. 

After a pandemic pause and the loss of its music director, the Choral Society of the Hamptons embarks on the search for a new leader with high hopes for its future.

Hamptons Film Festival announces opening night, centerpiece, and spotlight films, plus an award for the rising star Stephanie Hsu and a discussion with the award-winning director-writer Martin McDonagh.