AMAGANSETT LIBRARY
215 Main Street, Amagansett. 631-267-3810
Watercolor self-portrait workshop for ages 8 to 12 with Erin O'Connor, Saturday, 2 p.m. * Advance registration is required for most programs.

Among his greatest blunders, President Donald J. Trump’s decision to assassinate the top Iranian army commander may prove to have the longest lasting consequences, both in the Middle East and in this country.

Far be it for us not to comment when a bit of oyster news crosses the transom.

Given that what has been called fourth-wave feminism has swept the country, as manifested by the #MeToo movement, it comes as a surprise, at least to me, that the only right guaranteed women as well as men in the Constitution is the right to vote. Can we still be second-class citizens? Yes, men, all of whom were white, wrote the Constitution.

Driving past the Amagansett School the other morning, I noticed a half-dozen or so seagulls standing on the ridge of the old slate roof. Gulls usually are up there, three stories above the schoolyard, minding their own business. But what their business is up there puzzles me.

A flip through my high school senior yearbook, and many yearbooks before mine, confirms what history already knew but what many people didn’t really talk about back then. Very few students from minority backgrounds had attended Island Trees High School in Levittown through the end of the 20th century.

My life as a full-time patient.

We’re going soon to hear a soothsayer, and I hope what she says concerning the new year (being 2020, it should sharpen her foresight) will be as soothing as my mood is now, a fact that can be traced certainly in part to Dr. Langone’s orthotics, which seem to have angled me ever forward onto my toes, a good thing if you’re ready to rush the net in doubles.

A food drive and party at the Baker House 1650, and the East Hampton and Montauk Chambers of Commerce get booths at the New York Times Travel Show starting Jan. 24.

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Adam Fine, who has championed school safety, academic growth, and mental and physical health for teens during his 10 years as the East Hampton High School principal, will take over for Richard Burns as superintendent in the 2021-22 school year, the district announced Tuesday.

Vicki Littman, chairwoman of the East Hampton Food Pantry, the annual plunge’s beneficiary, said 260-plus hit the water at Main Beach in the village.

Caroline Brown is the United States Lifesaving Association’s female junior lifeguard of the year, the first one from here to be so honored.

Tight Lines Tackle on Bay Street in Sag Harbor is jammed from the roof to the floorboard with just about every kind of tackle, apparel, and bait imaginable. You name it, you will likely find it.

Vince Horcasitas finished 2019 ranked fifth nationwide in the United States Tennis Association’s men’s 55 singles division, owing largely to recent wins in national tournaments played in Phoenix and in Longboat Key, Fla.

The East End of Long Island came into being more than 10,000 years ago. Up until the present time the North and South Forks have been wearing away, first by the melting of the thick sheets of ice covering them — the South Fork first, then the North Fork as the glaciers melted away and retreated.

A look back at how a girls basketball coach greatly helped a group with impaired motor skills, in terms of both movement and self-esteem.

The fate of the football program here will be discussed Thursday night in the high school cafeteria. In girls hoops, East Hampton hosts Hauppauge Friday, while Pierson plays Mattituck in Sag Harbor. And winter track takes the Bonac girls to meets at Suffolk Community College Friday and Sunday.

Looking to help people make 2020 the "healthiest and happiest year yet," The Spur and the Wellness Foundation have announced that they are joining up for a wellness market on Saturday in Southampton.