Patchogue: Good for more than just thrift stores.

Spring was in the air, and so, evidently, was my head, for I had no idea until the middle of the following day that I had left my camera behind at Mashashimuet Park’s diamond.

Why do so many men of a certain age suddenly take up gardening?

Fifty years after opening at Gosman’s Dock in Montauk in 1971, the Rumrunner Home furnishings store has remained an East End fixture by capitalizing on the area’s population boom, and surviving skyrocketing rents, ever-changing design trends, and competition from national brands.

The Bridgehampton School District on Wednesday evening appointed a new superintendent, Mary T. Kelly, who was chosen from a field of 21 applicants.

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Word has reached The Star that Harry Striebel, a fashion designer who lived in East Hampton for many years, died on Oct. 19 in Delray Beach, Fla., after a five-year illness. He was 84 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

"A number of issues that the district thought compromised the safety of our students" need to be addressed ahead of any contract renewal, the Sag Harbor School District superintendent told residents who are disappointed in the lack of compromise on a new contract between the district and Mashashimuet Park.

Barbara H. Rothstein, a preschool and English teacher, died of heart failure on Friday at home in Cambridge, Mass. The former East Hampton and Montauk resident was 92.

If, like most Americans, you have been waiting with bated breath for signs that the Covid-19 pandemic is winding down and that a return to normalcy has finally arrived, then you probably heaved a great sigh of relief at some point over the past two weeks as the Centers for Disease Control announced that vaccinated individuals could dispense with wearing masks in most settings.

Joanne Goerler didn't want to retire in January from her teaching job at the John M. Marshall Elementary School, where she had worked since 1989, but she didn't really have a choice. The Covid-19 pandemic posed a life-threatening risk to her immune system, which had been compromised by a blood cancer called myelodysplastic syndrome, a surprise diagnosis Ms.

Just as there are rules of the road, there are rules of the waterways, and National Boating Safety Week this week is a good time to remember that.

Springs School officials want everyone to know they can't use the school's brand-new soccer and baseball fields just yet because the sod is too fresh, and they want all-terrain vehicle drivers to know that there cannot be any riding across the fields at all.

Gucci, the iconic international fashion brand that needs little else by way of introduction, is opening a new storefront Friday at 17 Newtown Lane in East Hampton Village.

Following a solemn year in which all official parades were canceled locally, there will be parades in both East Hampton and Sag Harbor Villages on Monday. 

Flynn Berry’s “Northern Spy” is a contemporary thriller about a single mother, her infant son, and her sister, and yet it illuminates much about the inner workings of the Irish Republican Army and British MI5.

Openings, specials, and farm stand and farmers market openings from all over welcome the season.

Kevin McCann is channeling his friendship with Peter Beard in a documentary in progress, tentatively titled "Montauk: A Playground at the Very Limit of Creation." The film finds its center through the windmill Beard brought to his property in 1973.

Guild Hall's 90th summer season, launching this weekend, is a bounty of plays, readings, comedy, music, dance, conversations, and film screenings, all of which will take place outdoors.