Like the passing of Vincent (Butch) Maher, whom I wrote about last week, I was equally saddened to learn of the recent loss of Helen S. Rattray. She was a local legend in so many ways.

East Hampton High’s baseball team won all three games of its series last week with Harborfields, thus improving its League V record to 6-3. Plus tennis and lacrosse updates.

A player finds a renewed passion for tennis at East Hampton Indoor Tennis’s 105 doubles clinics, overseen by the club’s longest-serving pro, Dennis Ferrando.

This week's contests for athletes of all ages.

Julius Dayton Parsons, who once ran the Springs General Store, posed for this formal portrait sometime in the 1860s or 1870s, judging from the background and props.

Four submarines mysteriously appeared off Montauk, and a driver in a 24-hour endurance race at the county airport in Westhampton Beach was stopped in his tracks by, yes, a deer collision. And that’s just 1950.

The tributes to Helen S. Rattray roll in.

Setting aside nostalgia for the days when local politics didn’t divide so starkly into blue and red camps, the fact is that single-party rule is simply a bad way to make important decisions.

If there were any doubt about how thoroughly the Trump administration has drunk from the cup of Orwellian doublethink, it has been dispelled.

For Helen S. Rattray, a “testimony and witness to more than a half-century of community life.”

I’ve had this idea for a few years now that requires some artistic assistance. Does anyone know a mapmaker?

What’s yours? Ross Macdonald or John D. MacDonald? How about both . . .

Riverhead is blessed to have an organization, the Butterfly Effect Project, that sees how girls are butterflies in progress, from birth, to caterpillar, to chrysalis, to adult.

From Montauk to Southampton Village, the latest.

Paid Notice: Our beloved mother, Barbara Ann Beitel Cooney, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025. Her family traveled from near and far to say their goodbyes and to show their appreciation and love.

Paid Notice: Thomas Michael Waygood was born on Dec. 18, 1946 in Everett, Washington, to James W. Waygood Sr. and the former Margaret Mortland. He passed away on Tuesday, April 8, 2025, from congestive heart failure, following surgery.

Paid Notice: Elaine Leddy DeFalco, 93 of East Hampton passed away peacefully of natural causes at home on April 21st, the same day as the Pope.

LongHouse Reserve is heading into the high season with art, performances, special events, conversations, and a unique four-season garden named one of the most peaceful places in New York State.

Guild Hall Museum will open for the season with "Functional Relationships: Artist-Made Furniture" and "Wading Room," an environment created by Almond Zigmund.

"Gingy's Diaries," a new theater work created by Ilene Beckerman with Michael Disher, will premiere in workshop form at the Southampton Arts Center.