I asked friends on Facebook recently how their shopping, cooking, and eating habits have been altered or changed. Every single person who replied has changed their shopping, cooking, and cleaning habits for the better.

What is particularly interesting about this storm is that there was little to no warning for those in its path.

A range of services and study opportunities are available at jcoh.org/live, the web presence of the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.

As East End hotels prepare to welcome summer guests in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the new must-have amenities will include face masks made from luxurious fabric, chic dispensers for hand sanitizer, body temperature scanners, aesthetically pleasing dividers to ensure people maintain six feet of social distance, and other items that allow people to feel safe and pampered.

“The nursing home is the optimum feeding ground for this virus: vulnerable people in a congregate facility . . . where it can spread like wildfire through dry grass,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said. That is proving to be true on the East End and across the country.

David Falkowski, who has operated his Bridgehampton farm, Open Minded Organics, since 2003, has become a bit of a roadside philosopher during the Covid-19 pandemic, and we could all use a little of his sound and uplifting advice.

Man shall not live by bread alone. Alone in quarantine, however, man seems to live for bread, and East End bakeries are in overdrive working to satisfy that hunger and provide other small pleasures of the sweet variety.

Whitehead wins second Pulitzer, Pollock-Krasner House's show for the season opens virtually, a workshop on opera, a virtual art fair booth, and more.

Despite below normal water temperatures, things are starting to open up on the fishing front at least, especially in areas west of Montauk.

Town police were busy from April 27 through Monday evening checking on reports of construction that might or might not have been in compliance with Covid-19 restrictions.

Health experts say it’s still too early to gauge with absolute certainty the impact of antibodies on Covid-19 and whether they will guard against reinfection long term, “but we have to hang our hat on something,” said Dr. George Dempsey of East Hampton Family Medicine.

The committee agreed at its first meeting last week to “make sure we don’t have a second wave” of Covid-19 infection “by opening too soon, by being careless when we open, by not looking at social distancing,” said Deputy Town Supervisor Sylvia Overby.

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Confusion is the order of the day in many aspects of the virus response.

In the early days of the Covid-19 crisis, the structure of East Hampton Town government changed with almost no fanfare.

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It’s not just fear of Covid-19, but how the pandemic has affected the grocery-store supply chain that commands my attention these days.

When the coronavirus refugees began arriving about the middle of March, I wondered what the ospreys would think.

Don’t we want this to be a happy place? A friendly place? And isn’t how we feel often self-created? Friendliness is intentional, driven partly by the idea that our own friendliness might brighten the community around us.

Popular culture has appropriated the traditional philosophical term “existential,” and the new, fashionable usage clouds philosophers’ contributions.