Last month he was named the East Hampton Town Police Department’s Officer of the Year, and now Bradley Hughes has been promoted to police sergeant.

Martha Howard Prentice Strong (1851-1949), a founding member of the Garden Club of East Hampton, made this scrapbook documenting her trip to Arizona from 1936 to 1937.

It is no coincidence that just as damaging and embarrassing revelations from a lawsuit by a voting machine maker against the Fox television corporation are released, the network’s Tucker Carlson has gone all in on a false retelling of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

When the basements of about six shops, a cafe, and a gallery in East Hampton Village flooded on Feb. 26, it was bad news at the toughest time of the year.

There is not so much to do in March, other than plan and perhaps go on walks.

At last, the legendary Washington Heights home of the Millrose Games, “the fastest track in the world.”

I am interested in the mixing and remixing of ourselves, and there’s no better feeling than when we’re in tune.

As Jimmy Carter is now in hospice care, I wonder what might have happened had his prescient words on conservation and self-sacrifice been heeded.

In 1898, three boats gave chase to what was thought to be the largest whale ever seen along the coast. And more from the history-rich pages of The Star.

This week’s theme? The locals’ lament.

Howard M. Epstein, an editor and publishing executive who was president of Facts on File, a news digest and reference publishing company, from 1975 until 1990, died on March 1 in Manhattan of complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 96.

Patricia A. O’Brien, a bookkeeper who lived in Sag Harbor for almost 50 years, died on Dec. 28 at home in Rockaway, N.J., after a brief illness.

John George Burkle Jr., lately of Springs, a former TWA air freight supervisor at Kennedy Airport, died of heart failure on Feb. 5 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 73.

Empty Bowls, a fund-raiser for Project Most, happens on Sunday from noon to 3 p.m. at the American Legion Post 419 with dine-in and takeout options.

When the Algonquin whispers to you.

The Sag Harbor School Board has called a special meeting for Thursday night at 6:30 to update the community on the proposed purchase of land on Marsden Street for a sports field.

The final score was 58-53 in favor of Chapel Field Christian of Orange County over Bridgehampton's Killer Bees on Tuesday night in a New York State Class D semifinal boys basketball game. It reminded Ron White, the Bees' head coach, of last year's game — same opponent, same playoff round, same outcome.

In lyrical prose, a Pulitzer winner explores the wages of modernity by way of a small island off Maine.

In a move expected to accelerate the installation of innovative/alternative septic systems in critical South Fork areas, the New York State Center for Clean Water Technology at Stony Brook University and the Peconic Land Trust have partnered to bring in a new watershed manager focusing on the areas surrounding Georgica Pond and Sagg Pond in Sagaponack.

An artist, award-winning chef, and longtime curator at LongHouse Reserve, Wendy Van Deusen has launched the Women's Art Center of the Hamptons to support women "thinkers and makers."