As seems to happen every year, summer appears to get shorter and shorter. Memorial Day arrives and with a quick blink of the eye, Labor Day appears to roll right in.

It has often been said that if you weren’t for impeachment already, you were not paying attention, but nothing has been quite enough.

As a legal standoff between East Hampton Town and the Springs Fire District over a disputed radio and cellphone tower drags on toward a fourth year, emergency communications — as well as mobile phone service — in the populous hamlet remains poor to nonexistent.

For some time, we have observed that the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals operates in what seems to be a universe unto itself.

Ketchup was a kitchen staple when I was growing up in the 1940s, as it still is in most American households. You know the saying, “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country”? I think we might better be able to chart the zeitgeist of the United States by keeping an eye not on auto production but on our national condiment.

North Main Street was blocked this week as a crew hired by the Long Island Rail Road worked on raising two trestles about three feet above their current grade. The project had been a long time coming. For years, trucks too tall to make it through the underpass there and at Accabonac Road have done damage to the trestle. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which oversees the L.I.R.R., had had enough.

A survey by the Pew Research Center observed that 63 percent of Jews say they’re either “fairly certain they believe in God” or are in some place of nonbelief or questioning. Unless we have an honest an conversation about spirituality, this “God gap” will continue to widen.

I’m getting near the end of the Old Testament now, and it surely has been a test.

An East Hampton Chamber of Commerce talk on retaining employees, and new hires at WordHampton and Town & Country.

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

Unsung Heroes
Montauk
September 18, 2019

Dear David:

Although no domestic release date has been set, “Good Posture,” a film by Dolly Wells starring her friend Emily Mortimer of Amagansett, will open in the United Kingdom on Friday, Oct. 4.

The next two JDT Lab productions at Guild Hall conjure up the 16th-century English authors Edmund Spenser and William Shakespeare. But look closer and you’ll see that Friday evening’s production is “The Daerie Queene,” a play by Savannah Hankinson.

It’s easy to fall in love with the work of Hilary Pecis at Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton. Judging by the many paintings already sold there, quite a few have.

OptoSonic Tea will present a four-hour, site-specific indoor-outdoor multimedia performance by video and sound artists from around the world Friday from 7 to 11 p.m. at the Parrish Art Museum.

There is still plenty of time for you to get some big tomatoes to make sauce, smaller ones to oven dry, and corn to freeze.

There is still plenty of time for you to get some big tomatoes to make sauce, smaller ones to oven dry, and corn to freeze. And you don’t want all those herbs in your garden to go to waste, do you?

Oyster night at Bell and Anchor, new prix fixe at Bel Mare, brunch is back at Nick and Toni's, and more

Alafair Burke, a talented author of domestic noir, is back with “The Better Sister,” exploring sibling rivalry and the dark underbelly of family life.

The Sag Harbor American Music Festival returns this weekend with free performances by more than 30 artists at various locations throughout the village as well as three ticketed events.