It seemed suspicious to find a pickup truck and van parked in her Apaquogue Road driveway, a homeowner told police on Friday. She confronted the drivers, who told her they were at the wrong house and were leaving.

East Hampton Town police flagged down a 2018 Jeep involved minutes before in a minor hit-and-run accident near Hampton Street in Sag Harbor.

A maker of colorful and evocative ceramic sculpture, Diane Mayo was a painter before she took her first ceramics class in 1984. It would precipitate a complete transformation in her work for decades to come. Ms. Mayo, who lived and kept a studio in Montauk, died of cancer on the night of Feb. 22.

At a moment when the country may finally be emerging from the Covid-19 crisis, New Yorkers cannot risk having the state’s top elected official embroiled in a lengthy investigation.

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic in the United States, there are many lessons learned, both good and bad. No one could fully anticipate how it would play out here on Long Island, and if one were to prepare a guidebook for the future, there would be plenty to write about.

It has been some years since I pulled the iceboats out of the barn. The last time there was enough ice to sail was an early March, the third, I think. Late in the day, a friend and I took the old batwing boat out as heavy clumps of snow came down. It was as if we were sailing among stars.

There is something humorous about having launched a newspaper column of personal musings during the doldrums of a pandemic: Shall I write about how I procured a can of dolmas (stuffed Greek grape leaves) without going inside the grocery store, or shall I thrill the reader with the antics of the lone-ranger raccoon who frequents my backdoor trash bin?

Budd Schulberg’s “What Makes Sammy Run?” does more than hold up well, its heel of a hero reflects a changing America.

I told O’en on our walk the other night that I thought winter was finally over, but he was too preoccupied with the evening’s effluvia to give the matter much thought.

I’ve roamed 23 South Fork graveyards, from Southampton to Sag Harbor. I dig surprises, and what has more surprises per square foot than a cemetery?

Because of an ongoing surge in home sales, the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund collected $21.07 million in revenues in January, the second-largest monthly amount in the program’s 22-year history.

AMAGANSETT

Phyllis H. Kramer to Andrew W. Seigel, 8 Seabreeze Lane, Dec. 1, $2,800,000.

Hamptons Five-O L.L.C. to Jesse and Joanna Jacobs, 15 Hedges Lane, Dec. 8, $5,250,000.

Furthest East L.L.C. to Pleasant J5 L.L.C., 472 Further Lane, Dec. 24, $8,000,000.

Interesting Choice
East Hampton
February 23, 2021

Dear David,

This past week, the Ladies Village Improvement Society announced its choice for their very first executive director. Its choice is unexpected and disappointing.

The governor spoke at length about three women's allegations of inappropriate behavior in remarks to the press during a regular update on the coronavirus pandemic.

Southampton Town residents can now buy beach permits online, the town announced this week, allowing them to bypass the Parks and Recreation Department line and have a contactless and paperless transaction.

In Daphne Merkin's novel, Judith Stone is a book editor in 1990s Manhattan in a relationship of “erotic compliance” and “self-abandon” — not erotica, but literary erotic psychology.

Last spring, with the help of his mother’s 10-year-old sourdough starter and cooking in his in-laws’ Water Mill kitchen, Stephen Robinson decided to ride the sourdough wave.

Cooking for St. Paddy's Day, new dinner specials, and Ayurvedic cuisine for delivery

The acclaimed American sculptor Mel Kendrick has spent most of the last 40 years taking things apart and putting them back together.

Hosted and produced by Judy D'Mello and Jeremy Warshaw and focused on loneliness, the podcast "Is Anybody Out There?" is of particular use during this time of human distancing.