When it took the court on Jan. 24, the East Hampton High School boys basketball team hadn't played a game in about a month because of Covid. For its star guard, Luke Reese, who injured his knee against Kings Park on Dec. 9, the layoff had even been longer.

Several films for kids and adults will be shown at local libraries over the next week.

We are extremely pleased that the momentum for a new Dominy museum has returned.

A sobering new study of the East Hampton shoreline has shown significant degradation.

We are in a housing crisis on the South Fork. No one seems to have found the right solution.

Why I gave my 9-year-old son a BB gun for Christmas merits a bit of explanation.

A happy memory of a trip to a micro brewery, and an unhappy realization that now all bottled beer tastes stale.

A couple of weeks ago things were so garbled on the sports page that Mary thought some readers might think I was senile. “Don’t worry,” someone in the front office said. “People have been saying that for years.”

On a winter drive with my husband one Sunday afternoon, we started to list all the people we’ve known from the neighborhood who are no longer here — their absence struck a powerful note.

A $19 million sale in East Hampton Village? Another on North Haven for $6 mil? Welcome to the Hamptons.

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, the icemen were busy here. Twenty-five years ago, the district’s congressman and a U.S. senator expressed disgust at Brookhaven National Lab contamination.

From the question of the Toilsome brewery to a 70-foot monopole in Springs.

Sunday’s weather was perfect for hockey, a fine day for Peconic Hockey Foundation-sponsored Wildcat youth travel teams to debut on the Buckskill Winter Club’s ice in East Hampton.

In its final appearance at the RECenter here, the Bonac boys swimming team easily defeated Lindenhurst to finish third in League II, while East Hampton’s girls track team took seventh at Brentwood.

In the Southampton-Pierson boys basketball game played at the Sag Harbor school’s gym last Thursday, the Mariners’ full-court press was suffocating, causing 30 or so turnovers during the 32 minutes of play.

Sag Harbor began examining its 2022-23 budget on Monday, starting off by cracking open its largest nut — salaries and benefits for employees — with the school business administrator, Jennifer Buscemi, noting that “all numbers are subject to change based on additional information received after this date.”

The politicization of masks and mask mandates to protect public health against the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic was manifested on Long Island this week, with a New York State Supreme Court judge in Nassau County ruling on Monday that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s mandate that masks must be worn in public places when social distancing cannot be maintained is unconstitutional.

The town board voted unanimously last Thursday to file the appropriate forms with the Federal Aviation Administration to deactivate East Hampton Airport. It will be permanently “closed” in its current model on Feb. 28, but will be opened anew as of March 4 as a private-use airport.

Members of the East Hampton Town Board agreed last week that the Little League fields that are to be relocated from 400 Pantigo Place in East Hampton to 110 Stephen Hand’s Path should be state-of-the-art, comparable to those in larger municipalities to the west.

The legislation continues to allow New Yorkers to request an absentee ballot during the pandemic when there is a risk of contracting or spreading disease that may cause illness to the voter or other members of the public. This legislation first became law in July 2020; the law expired on Dec. 31, 2021.