On Columbus Day weekend, revisiting Philip Roth’s breakthrough collection with an eye on identity politics.

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Perfect weather greeted the large crowd attending the East Hampton Town Trustees' 31st annual Largest Clam Contest on Sunday, a sharp rebound to the early-autumn tradition from last year's pared-down, pandemic-afflicted event. 

The town's tentative 2022 budget was unveiled this week. The $85.33 million plan would bring a spending increase of around $2.64 million, or 3.2 percent, over this year's adopted budget and a tax levy that stays below the New York State-mandated tax cap by about $5,000.

Residents of East Hampton, across the East End, and from as far away as Queens have long pleaded with the board to close or at least enact curfews and other restrictions on flights, citing the incessant noise of jet and helicopter traffic, particularly in the summer.

While driving through the South Fork, many of us have taken the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, which was once known as the Bull's Head and Sag Harbor Turnpike. This road was a simple path frequently used by merchants with their carts carrying goods.

Burdened with outdated fire trucks for more than a decade, the East Hampton Village Fire Department will soon have the most state-of-the-art equipment on the East End now that the village board has approved the $4.5 million purchase of five new vehicles.

Two residents of Toilsome Lane in East Hampton Village are trying to prevent a brewery from being built next door to their house by contesting a determination by the village's chief building inspector that such a use is permitted on the property.

On the lookout for explosives, the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives aided the East Hampton Town Police Department in the search of a Montauk house on Sept. 16, for which they had a state-issued warrant.

Multiple disturbances last week involved people yelling obscenities in public places.

A tree ultimately stopped Sophie Laffont's Mercedes on Friday, after it struck a fire hydrant on the side of Accabonac Road in East Hampton

The absence of stop signs at a four-way intersection in East Hampton was at least partly to blame for an accident that injured two men on Friday morning.

Colson Whitehead’s penchant for exploring genres takes him to uptown Manhattan in the early 1960s and . . . a furniture salesman?

Amber Waves, a nonprofit farm and market in Amagansett, has a current fund-raising campaign for which it is seeking donations to provide 200 local families with $100 gift cards.

The "Storm Lake" documentary celebrates a small-town, family-owned newspaper struggling to keep its community informed about issues large and small.

A new documentary charts Jacques Cousteau's evolution from inventive and fearless adventurer to farsighted and renowned environmentalist.

Solo shows at Colm Rowan, Tripoli, Ashawagh Hall, and the Watermill Center, plus a Road Show talk and an Afrofuturism panel.

A new director at LongHouse, Jeremy Dennis on a Shinnecock arts center, a virtual writing workshop from Bay Street, and a new home for OFVS.

Short films by Long Island filmmakers at the Hamptons Film Festival focus on sea level rise, farming, class struggles, family, and political activism.

The John and Alice Coltrane Home will be celebrated with a jazz concert featuring Ravi and Michelle Coltrane and a talk about the Coltranes' legacy.