I am an old enough fogey that I can remember the days when The Star was printed on an old flatbed press on the ground floor of the office building. Everyone on the staff had to physically drag the 1,700-pound rolls of newsprint out of storage in the family barn, from up the lane behind the office. How archaic those rolls seem today — positively Victorian. But I was there to see it.

Ken Brown stopped by the office on Monday with an old snapshot that he thought we would like a look at. During the winter of 1966 it was so cold that the edge of the ocean froze. Ken had been going through some old things and found the photograph, taken at East Hampton Main Beach toward low tide late in the day.

I’ve been asked what I would like our daughter to cook for me on the occasion of my fast-approaching birthday, and whether it’s cailles en sarcophage or mac and cheese, it will be wonderful, given the company we’ll keep.

“It was 50 years ago today,” I thought as I entered the theater this past August to catch the 1969 period film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” looking for a reminder of a divine encounter one summer day in Los Angeles.

Because of a lackluster year in the real estate market, 2019 revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund hit their lowest level since 2012, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced on Friday.

Wolffer Estate has put the lease to its restaurant Wolffer Kitchen Sag Harbor at 29 Main Street on the market for $500,000.

The prices listed here have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

The Town of East Hampton is among the municipalities the Sierra Club and Citizens Campaign for the Environment have recognized for sustainability efforts, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said on Tuesday. 

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A Southampton woman managed to drive away after allegedly causing a three-car accident in the parking lot of the Springs Presbyterian Church on Jan. 26, even though a witness reached inside her car and took the keys out of the ignition.

East Hampton’s Little League organization is to benefit from several upcoming free clinics here.

Matej Zlatkovic, a pro at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, has begun overseeing pickleball games on one of the club’s indoor Har-Tru courts, a first here.

Craig Brierley, the Bonac boys swimming coach, said last week’s league meet “had the makings for us to accomplish something extraordinary . . . for the second consecutive season we were the league champion.”

The boys basketball season began here with three straight nonleague wins at home, then things got worse — the last home win was over Rocky Point on Dec. 16 — before they got better.

Yani Cuesta, East Hampton’s girls winter track team coach, said the 4-by-400 relay team of Bella Espinoza, Ava Engstrom, Penelope Greene, and Lillie Minskoff would have broken a school record in that event absent a disqualifying out-of-the-lane baton pass at the county small schools meet Friday.

Saturday takes the Bonac wrestlers to the league meet at Eastport-South Manor and the boys swimmers to the county meet at Suffolk Community College-Brentwood, where the winter track state qualifier happens Monday night.

There is another Long Island bird count that follows on the heels of the annual longstanding Christmas count. It’s the winter waterfowl count that happens at about this time every year.

Just in time to help would-be quitters keep their new year's resolutions to stop smoking, Suffolk County's Department of Health Services is offering smoking cessation classes at various locations throughout the county through the end of April.

Skylar Day's sensibilities are at once dusty boots and folk music and the fiery power chords of a heavy metal guitar player in the band Gravitywell.

Bill Morrison’s “Dawson City: Frozen Time,” an "instantaneously recognizable masterpiece,” will have its Long Island premiere on Feb. 16 at Bay Street Theater.