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,

The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has admonished East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana for “inappropriate political activity” during the 2019 election campaign. The matter was first reported in The East Hampton Star.

The East Hampton High School boys soccer team put itself in position to win a league title by defeating Amityville 1-0 in an extremely hard-fought game played here Wednesday morning.

"A Sky Full of Poems" with Guild Hall, reading a rainbow with Bay Street, and other fun stuff for kids and teens.

Holiday specials can be ordered from Carissa's Bakery, Highway Restaurant and Bar, Ed's Lobster Bar, and Bell and Anchor.

East Hampton High School's boys soccer team improved its record to 6-1-1 here Monday morning by way of a 3-0 win over Islip -- its seventh shutout of the season -- thus setting up a big game with league-leading Amityville that was to have been contested here yesterday.

East Hampton High's golf team began the season Friday with two wins. Its football team fell short on Friday, and its boys vollebyall team, as of Monday had yet to get its starting lineup on the floor, due to quarantines in its own ranks and among the teams it was supposed to play.

The New York State Legislature voted on Tuesday to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use, joining a growing cadre of states that see green in the leaves and flowers of cannabis. Local reaction ranges from concerned to "cautiously optimistic."

Police said a 47-year-old Springs man who turned himself in on Monday had entered a woman's car in a Springs School parking lot on March 8, showed her a handgun, an demanded she drive to nearby Shipyard Lane, where he took her cellphone and $8,000 in cash.