A new public pool and cultural arts center at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center has been a long time coming, and representatives of the nonprofit Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation said it will take as long as three more years to secure the $13 million it needs to finish the building and establish programs there.

The popular Amagansett eatery will take over the space now occupied by Mary's Marvelous in East Hampton, whose owner was ready to move on when her lease expires next year.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul, who will take over from Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo in less than two weeks, "will be a breath of fresh air for the State of New York," said State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr.

Governor Cuomo should have been ousted from the Executive Mansion a year ago.

Questioning the value of offshore wind based on maintenance issues with the first United States project is a stretch.

Signs of the coming change of season come too soon for my taste.

Either you love carnivals and fairs or you loathe them.

A new attorney at Advantage Title, and a trunk show on Friday on Gingerbread Lane.

A veritable tsunami of coffee in a decades-old thriller sets a grateful reader to thinking.

I was thinking the other day, walking in our neighborhood, that we were blessed by God; later, our daughter Emily, who lives in Ohio, told us why.

Ah, the competition and camaraderie of hoops.

New real estate transfers.

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The Springs Brewery, a new business started by Lindsay Reichart and Gunnar Burke, who live locally, will debut its first cans of beer on Saturday in a pop-up at the Springs General Store between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. The brewers call it Arethusa and describe it as "citrus forward, with lots of flavor and low bitterness."

David Alpern, a former Newsweek senior editor, looks back on the many pleasures of a trip to Morocco, among them an unexpected meeting at a desert campsite with G.E. Smith and Taylor Barton.

Simon Van Booy has drawn from the stories of one rural Kentucky family for his new book, and he repays them with an affecting, generous novel.

The East Hampton Library's Authors Night returns this weekend, celebrating more than 30 authors with in-person and online talks.

Bach “had an appreciation for the pleasures of being alive,” said Alan Alda in his introduction for the Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival's first summer concert. “He was also an obstinate, headstrong grouch who didn’t mind insulting musicians he didn’t admire.”

Jazz returns to Gosman's Dock with Billy Hart-- a drummer "who swings beyond belief" -- joining the Bill O'Connell Quartet for a Hamptons Jazz Fest performance on Sunday.

Guild Hall will celebrate its 90th birthday with a silent disco, a performance by members of the New York City Ballet, a soundwalk, a drip painting workshop, and a popup performance by the Hampton Ballet School.