This year, 100 writers will be under a tent in Herrick Park for the East Hampton Library benefit.

East Hampton Town closed Amagansett ocean beaches to swimming around 2 p.m. Wednesday after a surfcaster caught a six-foot spinner shark, and East Hampton Village followed suit, closing all five of its beaches to swimming. 

Once again, the dark side of national Republicans has been put on display.

Officials are on track to complete a document intended to guide the town on policy to face sea level rise and other effects of a warming climate. We have seen this before.

With still more than a month to go before the use of gas-powered leaf blowers will be allowed for fall cleanups, we would like to remind property owners and professional landscapers of the rules.

Deer have radically altered the microhabitat here.

Whenever the subject of romance comes up, I like to say that I reached my peak of popularity in July 1979.

The undiscovered country of Riverhead dining.

A coach’s argument that his prayers following high school football games were private and personal is hard to believe.

A close-up look at Abraham Lincoln’s presidency offers possibilities for our own political polarization.

Readers will have their say, and a lot of it.

A complaint over an inundation of bicycles in 1897, a 1922 film shoot that had the dunes of Napeague substitute for a Middle East desert, and more from the old-time pages of The Star.

The real estate report, South Fork edition.

Despite the excessive-heat warning from the National Weather Service, our intended quarry was a species that’s more recognizably caught in the bone-chilling winds and cold of winter: the iconic codfish.

The 47-year-old Amagansett resident, assisted by a crew of 14, swam a 23.9-mile U-shaped arc in the Atlantic Ocean between Block Island and Montauk last Thursday. Her time of 8 hours, 39 minutes, and 45 seconds, which the Marathon Swimmers Federation is expected to certify, is most notable for the fact that apparently no swimmer has ever before spanned Montauk and Block Island.

The Bad News Bubs repeated as the A bracket champion in the Travis Field memorial double-elimination softball tournament in Amagansett last week, while the Bud Heavies were the B bracket champs.

Hoops 4 Hope, a nonprofit founded by Mark Crandall of Amagansett to work with young people in Zimbabwe and South Africa, is now also working with youngsters here, using basketball as a means by which to teach them how to be a good teammate.

Stony Hill Stables in Amagansett is offering three classes in August for the benefit of its children's riding scholarship program.

More than 300 male and female junior lifeguards ranging in age from 9 to 15 competed in a lifesaving skills tournament at Amagansett's Atlantic Avenue Beach Saturday and Sunday.

The Peter Marino Art Foundation houses a world-class collection ranging from antiquity to contemporary all housed in a stylish exhibition space in Southampton.