Lona Rubenstein of Amagansett may be better known in recent years as a world-class poker player, but long before she took up that game, she was a champion in table tennis, competing nationally and internationally.

East Hampton High’s softball team busted out here on Saturday, pummeling Harborfields 27-1 in a league game that was foreshortened by “the mercy rule” after five innings of play.

Though East Hampton lost two to Miller Place, with Colin Ruddy on the mound Bonac blanked the Panthers 1-0 here on April 20, a pitching gem that topped a story on Suffolk’s mound aces in Saturday’s Newsday.

A bill sponsored in the State Legislature by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. may represent the beginning of a big step forward on easing the region’s attainable housing crisis.

What exactly is the far right trying to “save” New York from?

Important decisions are being made behind closed doors and without the full village board’s knowledge.

The East Hampton Town Trustees eventually had to take on the question of a scholarship named for William J. Rysam, an enslaver of other human beings.

When they talk about the birth of their second daughter, Cody and Lauren Vichinsky will have quite the story to tell.

I never liked the happy-clappy bright yellow of spring’s early buds.

John Steinbeck and Cannery Row East.

In just one day last week I was inspected and boosted, and soon I’ll be implanted as well.

The latest in the never-cooling South Fork real estate market . . .

Whenever I give a lecture and someone asks me why so many Jews went like sheep to the slaughter during the Holocaust, the question sets my teeth on edge.

It’s the springtime of reader comment.

From the bicycle craze of 1897 to the 1997 failure to “forestall the transportation ills that plague the rest of the Island,” it happened here.

Iris S. Osborn of Wainscott died in her sleep at home on Monday morning. She was 87. A wake will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on April 30 at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will take place at 1 p.m. the next day at Wainscott Cemetery, with a reception to follow at the Wainscott Chapel.

The first-ever Hamptons Pride Parade, celebrating the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, will take place in East Hampton Village at noon on June 4.

A novelist’s skillful dive into the complexities of the legendary Frick family of art collectors.

In the mind’s eye of a poet.

Suffolk County District Attorney Ray Tierney, along with Nick LaLota, a Republican seeking election in the First Congressional District, and Alison Esposito, who is in the running for the role of New York State's lieutenant governor on Lee Zeldin's ticket, will hold a community event addressing crime, quality of life, and criminal justice on Wednesday evening.