I would love to think I’m a lover of the natural world, but it’s hard to be a naturalist when twice in recent months tick larvae have rendered me so infernally itchy, and for so long, that I’ve thought more than once of paving everything over — our lawn, our garden, our bosky woods.

I don’t know if any one of us ever really got through John F. Kennedy’s assassination.

Springs Auto Repair, which had been closed since Sept. 21 after a driver crashed into the back of the building and damaged a cinder-block wall, reopened earlier this month. The shop is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekdays, and from 8 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.

The owner of Petit Bleu, a children’s store in East Hampton Village, who was cited by code enforcement earlier this month for placing a stuffed golden retriever at the entrance to her shop, wants the business community to band together to change the village’s onerous regulations.

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East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana has apparently prevailed in her re-election campaign, narrowly defeating her Democratic challenger, Andrew Strong. 

Pierson’s Grace Brosnan said following the Whalers’ impressive Long Island Class C volleyball championship 3-1 win over Oyster Bay Saturday that she and her teammates often get off to a slow start before getting into the zone.

The recent Wednesday evening 7-on-7 men’s soccer semifinals were played in frigid weather, though the games were hotly contested.

This soup has existed about as long as farming has in western civilizations. It is the mainstay peasant soup of France and can be used as the founda­tion for any number of other vegetable soups. In restaurants this soup is near­ly always pureed, but in the old-fa­shioned country version it is not — the vegetables are simply cooked to near disintegration.

The numbers are good in all of East Hampton High School’s winter sports, which begin this week, and the Bonac girls cross-country team does well in frozen Plattsburgh.

Bonac basketball, boys and girls, gets going this week, while on Saturday the Pierson girls volleyball team plays in the state Class C Final Four in Glens Falls.

While driving up the California coast on U.S. Route 1, particularly so from Morrow Bay on up to Monterey, Julie and I spotted several large coastal boulders, some white, some dark, some with birds, a few with sea lions, but almost all pyramid-shaped. We suspect that at least some of the whiteness was attributed to uric acid depositions from birds, or guano, as many of those white rocks had cormorants perched on them.

The weather windows for fishing are getting narrower by the week. The winds have been howling and the frequent bursts of cold air have dissuaded even the hardiest of anglers and captains from venturing on the high seas of late. No doubt about it, it has been a blustery fall season by any standard.

Though she may be better known locally for performances with South Fork bands, Evgenia Zilberberg, a Ross School instructor, is a trained violinist and vocalist with a distinguished history in classical music.

Coco Myers said that when organizing the exhibition that became “For the Love of Painting” at Folioeast in East Hampton, she was inspired by painters who had been working for some time but had departed from their regular practices. The work the artists brought in was so fresh, in fact, that some of the paintings finished drying on the gallery walls.

A somewhat peculiar recipe, and the color is disconcerting. It is a vibrant Pepto-Bismol pink, but it is delicious and I make it every year to go with turkey, and later, roast beef sandwiches.

Bay Street’s Theater’s bracing revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s, “A Raisin in the Sun,” directed by Lydia Fort, absorbingly captures the militant passion and raw pain of being a black person in a white world.

The Met: Live in HD will simulcast the company’s premiere of Philip Glass’s opera “Akhnaten” on Saturday at Guild Hall. Written in 1983, it is “the third in a trilogy of operas about men who changed the world in which they lived through the power of their ideas.”

A fire broke out in Michael Combs’s Southold sculpture studio on Nov. 8, destroying or damaging nine sculptures along with tools, decoys, and other carvings. The sculptures represented more than a year’s labor.