As the 2026 midterm elections loom more consequential than ever, it’s time to get out and get active.

The American culture wars have become our own cultural revolution, censorship with a whimper, not a bang.

This photograph from The East Hampton Star’s archive showing Elizabeth H. Dayton Cartwright (1851-1945) adorned with flowers and surrounded by white lilies, irises, and carnations evokes the eagerness many feel for the beginning of spring.

At long last, the East Hampton Town Board is expected to reduce the cap on houses relative to the size of a given piece of land.

The Bouvier Beales of Grey Gardens had raccoons in the parlor but they also had certain pretentions. They floated in time in a rather detached fashion, losing track of its passing days, weeks, months, years, decades, and centuries, and I understand and sympathize, especially when it comes to yard maintenance.

No rest for the realty.

Behold gastronomic glory — the Rochester garbage plate.

Scientists have discovered a new pill that will do away with both toothpaste and toothbrushes, not to mention human agency altogether.

Rick Martel, on the Republican and Conservative lines, defeated John Leonard, a Democrat who also ran on the Working Families line, in Tuesday's special election for the Southampton Town Board seat vacated by Tommy John Schiavoni.

The lives of the actor Jimmy Stewart and his sister Mary, an acclaimed artist, formed parallel stories of creativity and courage during World War II.

The energy brought by the three young actors in "The Railway Children" at the Southampton Cultural Center radiated throughout the rest of the cast.

"Eternal Testament," a new exhibition at The Church in Sag Harbor, engages with the Indigenous history of eastern Long Island.

The documentary "City Dreamers" illuminates the careers of four female architects whose influence on our cities over the past 70 years has been profound.

Slavic Soul brass band at Bay Street, open studios at Watermill Center, jazz at the Masonic Temple, and the Hamptons Film Fest is accepting submissions for 2025.

Agathe Snow at the Sagaponack Farm Distillery, three artists in conversation at the Women's Art Center, a group show at LTV.

A pizza and pasta prix fixe at Nick and Toni's, Bostwick's Chowder House and Elaia Estiatorio reopen, Napa vs. Bordeaux at Park Place Wines, and the South Shore Seafood Trail.

Bridgehampton’s Killer Bees eviscerated the Yellow Jackets of Eldred from the start in Saturday’s Class D regional final, stealing and scoring repeatedly as their opponents from Sullivan County looked on, helpless to stop the onslaught.

A look back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and the early days of the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter.

March is here, and during an open workout Sunday at East Hampton High’s baseball field, the varsity coach Vinny Alversa said something he hasn’t said in a decade at Bonac’s helm: that this year’s senior-heavy varsity team can win the league championship.

“Youth is full of sport” is written above Bob Vishno’s photo in the Branford (Conn.) High School yearbook of 1949, a fitting saying for one who would go on to coach golf, basketball, and baseball at Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School for a generation, a 31-year tenure that he and his late wife, Lillian, who also was a Sag Harbor teacher, set forth upon in 1956.