Nominating petitions for three East Hampton Town Democrats who hope to force a primary election in June — Jeff Bragman, John Whelan, and Rick Drew — were delivered to the Suffolk County Board of Elections last week, and the would-be candidates, two of them incumbents, were upbeat this week about their prospects. 

Khanh Sports, an athletic gear and equipment rental store in East Hampton Village that had been due to close in February because of a steep rent increase, will be sticking around for a few more years, Khanh Ngo, the owner, said.

Was it life as we knew it upended by a pandemic, or a rediscovery of the joys of the printed page that accounted for last year's eye-popping statistical changes at the Amagansett Library? Probably both, Lauren Nichols, the library's director, said this week

East Hampton Point, the luxury resort and marina on five acres of Three Mile Harbor waterfront, has been purchased for just under $18 million by an investment group led by Heath Freeman, the president of the Alden Global Capital hedge fund and a Montauk resident.

It might have been inevitable that Gail Watson would return to baking, even her famous wedding cakes, after a self-imposed hiatus in 2012, but it didn't always seem that way.

The new owner of the Palm restaurant and Huntting Inn in East Hampton Village wants to add a pool with a hot tub, cabanas, and a patio to the property, and to renovate the building, which dates to 1699, to make it accessible to people with disabilities.

Local catering companies are walking a dangerous edge. Another season like last year and some say they are sure to go out of business. That is the main point that they are trying to drive home with state lawmakers. And time is running out for them to take on work in the summer of 2021.

Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner's evergreen popularity is on evidence this spring as an important show of Pollock's murals continues at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Krasner's collages are on view at Kasmin Gallery.

In unusual times, mothers, nurses, midwives, and doulas are facing preganancy and birth under circumstances that sometime demand the exact opposite of the intimacy that is part and parcel of the experience.

Dava Sobel will share a virtual Guild Hall stage with actors for readings of selected poems that pay tribute to space and everything that inhabits it in partnership with the Hamptons Observatory.

A disagreement about safety has led to a standoff between the Bay Street Theater, which is seeking to hold its summer season in a tent in Steinbeck Park, and the Sag Harbor Village Board, which has thus far nixed the plan, citing concerns about noise, crowding, traffic flow, and other quality-of-life issues.

As more women go public with accounts of harassment by New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the other big scandal — nursing home deaths from Covid-19 — risks becoming overshadowed.

Lack of proof has not stopped Republicn legislatures from attempting to pass all sorts of mostly race-based exclusions. Congress is wrestling now with the For the People Act, a massive, 800-page voting rights bill that would make it more difficult for states to cheat.

Regular readers of The Star’s editorial pages might have noticed that our official position with regard to the ecological importance of Hook Pond and its tributaries, notably the present mud bog known as Town Pond, is that it would be nice to restore them, but there are far higher priorities.

My mother, who wrote a column called “Connections” in this space for more than 40 years, has only made one remark on “The Shipwreck Rose” since I began my own column last July: “I see you are styling the dog’s name as one word, Sweetpea,” she says, with the sideways gaze and slightly arched eyebrows of a disdainful veteran copy editor, “rather than two.”

The commentary of Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith — the last vestiges of a watchable N.B.A.

The Town Board ruled today that, once the coronavirus pandemic has run its course, all of our schools, aside from those for toddlers, be turned into affordable housing units, thus going far to solve that problem, and, further, that henceforth a new without-walls system of education be created wherein students, through visits to mentors living here, whether engaged in the trades, the professions, or arts, will participate in hands-on learning.

How a slotted space for newspapers in an old Main Street store’s cabinetry came to symbolize something more — an arrival.

AMAGANSETT

Ama Ballenero L.L.C. to Ocean PSP L.L.C., 12 Whalers Lane, Dec. 14, $11,000,000.

BRIDGEHAMPTON

Sutton Farms L.L.C. to Sand and Snow L.L.C., 16 Highland Terrace, Sept. 30, $4,800,000.

EAST HAMPTON

Love and Prayers
East Hampton
March 21, 2021

Dear David,