A highlight among Springs landmarks, here is a storied eatery and watering hole that served countless of the hamlet’s residents, including the Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock.

Josephine Crasky, an Amagansett resident for most of her life, died on April 11 at the age of 101, three months after a birthday celebration that saw a congratulatory proclamation from East Hampton Town and a lively party at the town’s senior citizens center.

Margaret Ora-Lee Capozzola of Montauk, a homemaker who spent many sunny days in her vegetable and flower gardens, died on April 15 at San Simeon by the Sound Nursing and Rehabilitation in Greenport. She was 88.

Despite keeping fishing notes in my logbook since 1975, I can’t precisely determine the exact date I first met Vincent (Butch) Maher, but I do know it happened at some point in May of 1986, according to my haphazard writings, when I climbed aboard the Lazybones.

The Pierson Whalers defeated Elwood-John Glenn 8-6 Saturday before some 250 Mashashimuet Park spectators who had earlier seen Kyle McGowin, a Pierson grad and former Washington Nationals pitcher, presented with a plaque that is to be displayed in the school’s trophy case.

At her father’s Body Tech fitness studio on Pantigo Road the other day, Alyssa Bahel said she’d run the Paris Marathon in 3 hours, 10 minutes, and 15 seconds — her best time to date.

The week ahead in local high school sports action.

In 1975 Clark Clifford, Lyndon Johnson’s former defense secretary, spoke locally and lowered the boom on Nixon and the Vietnam War. And more from The Star’s past reportage.

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President Trump’s degrading of our system of laws through deportations hurts us all and raises the chilling question of how far this administration will go.

New York State police and local law enforcement agencies will once again conduct special details to enforce vehicle and traffic laws in work zones.

On the real-world human impact of the Trump administration abruptly halting the United States’ vast aid network to the world’s poor and suffering.

The ospreys are back for the season, and I’ve spent more time than usual watching the show.

We’re having a potluck lunch on Sunday at Ashawagh Hall, following the 11 a.m. memorial gathering there for my mother, Helen S. Rattray.

Close and not-so-close encounters with bears.

How well do bioplastics decompose? While they claim to be compostable, many, including the most common, require industrial high-temperature composting and do not degrade in home composters, soil, or water.

A new round of South Fork property transactions.

Helen S. Rattray may have stood only 5-foot-1 in her prime, but she was a towering figure in the newsroom and in the town her paper served. A consummate journalist, exacting editor, and dedicated champion of the free press, Ms. Rattray served as publisher of The East Hampton Star until her death on April 16 and was its editor in chief from 1980 until 2003, when her eldest son, David E. Rattray, took over that role.

The Fistys are a three-woman in-your-race punk-rock band whose "sound and fury are a manifestation of their convictions."

Hamptons Doc Fest will celebrate Earth Day week with three days of films, interviews, and information hubs whose theme is our connection to trees, woodlands, and forests.