Keeping our 9-year-old away from electronic devices has been a struggle since he first figured out how to work the track pad on his mother’s Mac laptop. His is a generation saturated in all things digital that finds playing a video game while listening to something on television and keeping up with friends on social media hardly distracting.

Long Island real estate is suffering as sales decrease and homes lose value, and one reason is chronic flooding fueled by climate change.

Every day during these holiday weeks seems to me like Sunday, which, I hasten to add, isn’t a particularly good thing for someone who likes to think of himself as purposeful if not actually useful.

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

It was cloudy and relatively warm on Friday, 50 degrees to be exact, which, when it came to skating, was fine with him, Doug De Groot said, the Buckskill Winter Club’s enemy this time of year being the sun.

“Did we . . . win?” the sportswriter asked on arriving late at East Hampton High. “They won,” a young fan answered on his way out.

“Our defense was good enough for us to win,” Dan White, East Hampton’s coach, said after a 45-30 loss to Eastport-South Manor here, but when it came to offense there wasn’t much to write home about.

Hoops rivalries will be the order of the day Friday, as Bridgehampton visits Greenport, and Southold plays at Pierson in Sag Harbor. Monday takes the Bonackers bowling against Greenport-Southold at the All Star lanes in Riverhead.

Southampton Town has more than 60 freshwater ponds. Most of these ponds are contaminated to this or that degree, but the most contaminated are given a label by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that speaks to their fragility.

Alastair Gordon shares memories of Doug Thompson, a longtime friend and noted architect who died in November.

The Amagansett streetscape will soon suffer a significant loss with the closing of Ille Arts, which has been a vital source of culture and visual art in that hamlet at two different locations since March 2012.

Faux Mission Chinese Chicken Wings

Having just dined at Mission Chinese for the first time, I immediately ordered the restaurant’s cookbook. I do not have it yet, but I found this recipe online, which is supposed to replicate Mission’s famous chicken wings with xxx spice.

This is a story that could be sad, but it is not. It is more of a silver-lining story that brings us to family, food, and the holidays.

The new Pushcart Prize table of contents lets us know that authors are thinking about drug overdoses, racism, cultural appropriation, caring for elderly family members, and the complicated political divide.

“Viewpoints,” the Watermill Center’s conversation series devoted to creative themes, begins Wednesday with a talk by Andrina Wekontash Smith, a member of the Shinnecock Nation.

A Southold artist's film seeks to preserve a Buddhist holy site.

More winter film screenings, Guild Hall announces this year's honorees, and more.

The parents of a 15-year-old were arrested Friday night after East Hampton Village police found teenagers drinking at a house party at 26 The Circle.

A fire Saturday morning in a Water Mill home owned by the publishing heiress Anne Hearst caused major damage to the 17,000-square-foot house, though Ms. Hearst and several family members escaped uninjured. Firefighters were able to rescue two cats and a substantial amount of artwork.    

Up for a challenge . . . for a good cause?

The bravest swimmers on the South Fork can answer the polar plunge call to raise money for charity by taking a winter dip on New Year's Day in Montauk, East Hampton, or Wainscott.