She loved “animals, writing, and telling dirty jokes,” Susan Jane Bell’s brother, Peter Pyatt Bell, recalled this week of his sister, who died on Jan. 20 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton. “She just told the silliest jokes you could imagine,” Mr. Bell said.

Joan Kulgren Martin of East Hampton, a former college professor and director of Taproot Workshops, an organization that provides writing classes for senior citizens on Long Island, died of a stroke on Jan. 16 at Stony Brook University Hospital. She was 88 and had been ill for three years. 

A struggle in the Shinnecock Hills over the remains of native people points to the absence in New York State of effective protection of important cultural sites.

Why a proposed senior citizens center needs to be quite so large is a question that ought to be reconsidered.

Visiting Quogue recently with friends who had summered there from childhood was eye-opening.

I am of two minds about confessing my near-addiction to the give-away pile next door to the Star office at the East Hampton Library.

One of the oldest businesses on Amagansett’s Main Street will reopen next door.

“I’m reading about the Puritans now,” I said to Mary, and a shadow passed across her face . . .

The East End real estate market continued to lag in the final months of 2019, but it may be emerging from its years-long slump.

Kevin Menard, the founder of Menard Acupuncture in Sag Harbor, will be shutting down his practice as of Saturday to focus on developing a line of cannabinoids, he announced on Monday.

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The Sportime Arena in Amagansett was bustling Saturday, with three intensely contested futsal (indoor soccer) finals played before a large group of spectators.

For the second straight year the East Hampton High School boys swimming team has gone undefeated in league competition.

Vinny Alversa and Annemarie Cangiolosi have been doing their best to strengthen East Hampton High School’s baseball and softball programs, from Little League on up.

Two basketball games went down to the wire Friday, jayvee and varsity, and two school records were set in girls winter track over the weekend.

The Bonac boys swim at the league meet in Hauppauge today, while Friday brings two hoops games of interest, Bridgehampton at Pierson and Kings Park here.

The theory of evolution is still intriguing. It is “survival of the fittest” in one sense, but not totally so. And it’s going on all around us today.

Surprisingly often it is life that imitates art in “Home Work,” Julie Andrews’s revealing memoir of her Hollywood years.

The Real East End Brass Band can be found jamming New Orleans brass band jazz standards, mashing in the sounds of classic rock, ska, reggae, and punk, composing original music, and playing high-energy shows at local breweries, restaurants, festivals, and other venues.