The art of tarot reading can inform your plans and inspire your dreams as you set your resolutions for 2026. These South Fork readers are on deck to help.

Government spraying of insecticide on Long Island has a checkered history. Mosquito eradication efforts, driven by fears of the spread of malaria, were paused in the 1960s after studies revealed the dangers posed by the insecticide D.D.T. to birds and humans. Twice a month — during the new and full moon tides — an East Hampton Town trustee and his team of volunteers walk miles of boggy marshland looking for mosquito larvae. The data, collected with the help of a plastic dipper cup affixed to a stick, is sent through a digital G.P.S.-enabled app to the county authorities who then tell their helicopter pilots precisely where to unload their cargo of larvicide.

The cold and dark of winter can be hard on runners and others who love sports. But hibernation isn't the only option. From tennis to bowling to batting cages, there are plenty of warm places to play inside.

Sure, it's the thought that counts, but let's be honest: We've all felt the womp-womp disappointment of receiving a lame, generic present, and we'd all rather receive something wonderful. Here's a give-this, not-that guide to gifting greatly (with South Fork flair).

Deck the halls with these homemade ornaments using a traditional salt-dough method, tested by the very same hands that edit East magazine.

Deck the halls with these homemade ornaments using a traditional salt-dough method, tested by the very same hands that edit East magazine.

Social media has proven a fair-weather friend to leftist political resistance over the past few decades. The 2010s saw pro-democratic uprisings in the Arab world coordinated over Facebook and Twitter on pages like “We Are All Khaled Said.” But the “Facebook Revolutions” couldn’t sustain momentum and the Arab Spring stalled.

“Almost everyone has had a run-in with the ghost at LTV,” one staffer told a curious visitor to East Hampton Town’s public-access television provider.

During the Second World War, East Hampton boys in the services communicated with one another across the far-flung fields of battle using a method that is astonishing today and yet worked remarkably well: They wrote letters home to the editor of The Star; the Star collated and printed snippets of their news in a column titled “Army, Navy, and Marines” that ran each week on Page Four, and then the service members read all about one another’s escapades and heroics a couple weeks later when their copy of the newspaper reached them.

We’re navigating weird days, are we not, friends? In this context of topsy-turvy, we thought it might help to provide East readers with an early glossary of 2026’s hard-working words and phrases, so, if nothing else, you can join the conversation and talk about it all.

Long Island’s East End shares a cherished coastal-winter pastime, iceboating, with its neighbors across the sound in Connecticut — which is where this month’s East magazine cover artist, John Ford Clymer, lived while producing an unequivocally American collection of artwork that today sings nostalgia in every brushstroke.

The South Fork has been a magnet for fashion people for a long time. See: Ralph Lauren, and his love affair with the old houses of East Hampton (and his charitable support of its historical society); Halston hanging out at Eothen, Andy Warhol’s place in Montauk, or Cheryl Tiegs shacked up with Peter Beard on a high bluff nearby.

Benjamin Knute McCarron and Colleen Elizabeth Sherlock were married on Sept. 20 at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Sag Harbor. They celebrated afterward with their families and friends at the Bridgehampton Tennis and Surf Club. 

Bonac Lights, a holiday display whose proceeds support college scholarships for East Hampton High School students, will be set up in a new spot this year — Mulford Farm on James Lane.

The Anchor Society of East Hampton has invited one and all to a Jingle Mingle party on Saturday from 4 to 6 p.m.

A three-day open house beginning on Friday at Marders nursery and gift shop in Bridgehampton will include spectacular decorations, live music, adoptable animals, and a presentation by the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center.

The annual Lighting of the Lighthouse, involving thousands of lights, happens on Saturday from 4 to 7:30 p.m.

Dennis E. McGuire, a landscaper for Mike’s Landscaping in East Hampton and “a man with a gentle soul and a huge heart,” died on Nov. 14 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care. He was 58.

Ken Kalbacher, a surfer, sailor, kite-surfer, and contractor, died on Nov. 2 at the Southampton Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing at the age of 66.

The East Hampton Village Board heard a pitch for the creation of 10 affordable apartments allocated to village employees, an effort to bridge a large and growing demand and a vanishingly small supply.