Curated Wine Cellars's holiday picks include white Burgundy or pinot noir from Oregon with turkey, sauvignon blanc with latkes, and bubbles anytime.

Christmas Eve pig roast at Almond, new prix fixe menu at 1770 House, decorative ice cream at Loaves and Fishes

Stony Brook Southampton Hospital kicked off a winterlong coat drive last week, asking for donations of new or gently worn coats, hats, gloves, and scarves to help people in need.

It took firefighters about an hour to extinguish a fire in a small barn at the Applewild Farm on Meadow Court in Bridgehampton on Wednesday.

East End YIMBY (which stands for "Yes in my Back Yard") will be holding a rally in support of affordable housing on Saturday at 11 a.m. at the windmill on Long Wharf in Sag Harbor.

People seeking Covid-19 vaccines have two new upcoming opportunities at East Hampton Town Hall: on Monday and Wednesday. Appointments for clinics later in the month are already spoken for.

For a Hanukkah sweet, we propose a homemade donut that touches on two traditions: beloved jelly-stuffed sufganiyot and the homespun crullers fried up in East Hampton kitchens since colonial days. Here, a recipe — and advice for fearful friers — adapted from an ORIGINAL column by Florence Fabricant published in The Star in 1975.

As we look forward to being spirited away for the holidays, we might opt to skip the alcohol in our cocktails while we celebrate. Shaken or stirred, an aromatic mocktail will stimulate the senses with seasonal ingredients.

As we look forward to being spirited away for the holidays, we might opt to skip the alcohol in our cocktails while we celebrate. Shaken or stirred, an aromatic mocktail will stimulate the senses with seasonal ingredients.

The 847 participants in the East Hampton Town Recreation Department’s 3 and 6-mile races around Montauk’s Fort Pond on Thanksgiving Day constituted a record. That was the good news.

East Hampton High’s boys basketball team scrimmaged impressively twice last week, while the wrestling squad will have 22 competitors on the mats at the Frank (Sprig) Gardner tournament here Saturday.

Cami Hatch, an East Hampton High School junior, swam close to her best time in the 100-yard freestyle at last week’s state girls swimming meet, and showed "a level of mental toughness and maturity beyond her years," her coach said.

The other night, I came across my first fishing logbook, started back in 1978, in which I began to inscribe my saltwater exploits when I was 15 years old. Back then I considered it a chore to take time to make notations of success or failure in my fishing excursions and wondered how it would ultimately serve me. But now I finally know.

There will be two free screenings Sunday of “Waterproof,” the 40-minute documentary released two years ago that focuses on East Hampton’s lifeguarding community, and in particular on John Ryan Sr.

“Soldiers, Sailors From Here On Duty in War-Hit Hawaii” was how the Pearl Harbor attack, 80 years ago next week, was reported in The Star. Nineteen men and three women from East Hampton were believed to have been stationed in or near Honolulu, Hawaii, when the bombing began.

In a new column about birds, The Star's Christopher Gangemi discusses the "spark bird," that bird that first makes you notice birds in general, sparking a deeper curiosity about the many birds around you. His, in December of 2001, was the tufted titmouse.

For those who have relatives or friends struggling with alcohol, Al-Anon meetings held at a handful of locations on the South Fork offer support. Adults meet at the Montauk Community Church on Sundays from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. Lunch meetings take place on Mondays at 12:30 p.m. at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church session house. There are also meetings on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5:30 p.m.

It’s not uncommon after a holiday break like the Thanksgiving one we just enjoyed for patients to mention to me that they gained five or six pounds thanks to hefty holiday meals. Indeed, New Year’s resolutions being just around the corner occupy a significant place in the American health psyche as people scramble to get back on track with regard to healthful food and exercise choices.

Arielle Hessler, the new director of the Amagansett Library arrives in Amagansett having spent the last three years at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor, first as an emerging-technologies librarian and then as program and outreach coordinator.

Visiting hours for Dennis Franklin Donatuti of Springs, who died on Nov. 5 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital, will be held Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton.