Montauk's Bill O'Connell, director of Hamptons Jazz Fest, is a Grammy nominee.

Holiday concerts in East Hampton, Water Mill, and Southampton, a diamond counterfeiter at The Church, plus jazz in Southampton and fusion in Sag Harbor

Holiday menu and takeout options include feasts of the seven fishes, smoked hams, lobster bouillabaisse, buche de noel, lobster roll kits, and more.

Klever Lopez, the new owner of John Papas Cafe in East Hampton, promises that, except for a few new dishes, nothing will change. A fixture in the kitchen there for more than 20 years, he knows the place well.

Citing the financial impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had on many families, the East Hampton Kiwanis Club is seeking donations of new, unwrapped toys to be distributed to local kids in need for the holidays.

In New York State as of Monday, Dec. 13, masks will be required in all indoor public places unless businesses or venues implement a vaccine requirement. The action comes amid yet another surge in Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths, with Suffolk County's seven-day average of positive tests reaching 6.5 percent on Dec. 8.

It was predictable that just as the first Tesla electric car-charging station appeared in East Hampton Village people would grumble.

What happens now that East Hampton Airport is under local control remains unclear despite years of talk. This is a sharp disappointment.

Cerberus’s sailing season came to a formal end this week when the crew at Three Mile Harbor Marina lifted the sloop from the water and placed it on the boat-mover’s trailer for the short trip into town.

The older I get, the less happy I am about the dark afternoons. Sunset brings us down. We have to fight, fight against the dying of the light.

Thoughts on a 13-year-old mouth liberated from braces.

When the Cuban missile crisis had everyone on tenterhooks, I, a collegian then, was pretty much oblivious.

A public education debate has been raging between cursive and printing enthusiasts for several decades now.

From the pages of Stars of yore.

The week in reader comment.

The Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament made an appearance here Saturday for the first time in three years, and, because of a new round-robin/scramble format, every wrestler from the six schools that vied was guaranteed four matches.

Sas Peters, a 65-year-old Amagansetter who has persuaded this country’s Ultimate disk governing body over the past years to add divisions for 40, 50, and 60-year-olds in officially sanctioned national and international play, contended last month in the first 60-and-over Legends world championship tournament in Sarasota, Fla.

The East Hampton High School boys basketball team won a season-opening tournament at Mattituck High School over the weekend, and the boys swimming team, while it lost its season-opener by 3 points at Hauppauge last Thursday, would have won if diving had not been one of the events. East Hampton has no divers.

In baseball parlance, the fishing season is now formally in the bottom of the ninth inning. There are two outs and two strikes on the batter at the plate, or in this case a fisherman with a rod and reel in hand. For my part, I did not want to strike out by not fishing one last time before the end of the year.

Linda Sue Russell's lifelong goal, her family wrote, was to be happy and raise a family, and that she did. She died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Nov. 13.