Wendy Elizabeth Flanagan “could often be heard saying, ‘I love my life!’ ” A Montauk prekindergarten teacher, mother, and wife, and more recently a Pierson High School volleyball coach, she brought “boundless love and energy” to everything she did, her husband wrote.

Thomas Joseph Byrne, a retired chief petty officer with the United States Navy, died of heart failure on May 8 at home in Springs. He was 86. God, family, and country were driving forces throughout his life, his family said.

William Cuthbert, who died on May 11 of metastatic bladder cancer, was a sensitive, caring man of high principles, his partner of 21 years said.

For years I’ve noticed numerous symmetrical holes measuring about an inch in diameter in the sand near where I dock my boat in Sag Harbor Cove. Who created and resides in such dwellings?

The playoff news baseball-wise was not good for East Hampton High School’s team, which lost to Mount Sinai and Miller Place last week, and thus was ousted from the county’s Class A bracket. For the Pierson (Sag Harbor) Whalers, however, the news was good.

Although East Hampton High School’s varsity baseball season ended last week with two playoff losses, Coach Vinny Alversa is pleased by the big step forward this spring and looks forward to the coming years.

The recent 15th birthday of Noah Avallone, a part-time Montauker, was made all the more memorable by the fact that he had been named to the U.S. Snowboard 2022-23 Olympic rookie halfpipe team.

Nantucket voters earlier this month voted in favor of topless bathing. But what about New York State, or even East Hampton?

Most, if not nearly all, of the Airbnb hosts in East Hampton Town are breaking the law.

It is often said that gas prices are out of whack on the South Fork, and now all prices are.

There is a little-known grave­site in East Hampton where the remains of Nathaniel R. Arch, a genuine United States war hero, lie.

It can be hard to muster much enthusiasm for N.B.A. players today, when you were weaned on the likes of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale.

Did those who died in this country’s wars, who defended an egalitarian, optimistic, forward-looking society, die so that its lawmaking bodies would simply sit on their hands doing nothing, stymied when confronted with issues demanding action?

If you’re like me, a fishing greenhorn after you’ve already gone gray, I’ve got a few tips.

From the John Drew Theater plans to the goings-on at Village Hall, readers have much to discuss.

The week’s real estate report, with an awful lot of L.L.C.s in the mix.

You might consider the phase “the Hamptons” a tad pretentious and semi-newly coined. But check out its use in The Star from back in 1897. And then in 1947, quick thinking saved a man overboard.

Zachary Lazar’s new novel is a meditation on life in Trump’s America — and how to escape it.

Another mass shooting has claimed the lives of school children, with at least 19 students and two teachers dead in Uvalde, Tex., after an 18-year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday. The deadly attack has police and schools on the South Fork on high alert, though no specific threats have been identified.

In the aftermath of the racially motivated mass shooting in Buffalo on May 14, the New York State Education Department announced this week that it is canceling this year's Regents exam in United States history because of concerns that some of the test's content "has the potential to compound student trauma caused by the violence in Buffalo, which created an unexpected and unintended context for the planned assessment."