The venerable Star comes in for some praise for a change. Plus more kvetches, of course.

Oil was a winner this week and wind a loser in the Trump administration’s first round of executive orders.

We hope that officials here are seizing the moment to come up with new ways to reduce catastrophic risks in a region underprepared for large-scale wildfires.

Sharpen your skates, East Hampton.

The first hat I produced after weeks of work was a bit of a disaster, looking like something a “Game of Thrones” extra would have worn before getting his head chopped off

The pashmina, with its many petal colors like varieties of April flowers, was the late-20th-century version of the Tulip Mania of the Dutch golden age.

Hard time as a captive to talk radio.

It’s been a long, lousy month since Danny Murray of the Fairway restaurant passed away.

Norman Abell of Amagansett, a former senior partner at Huber, Lawrence & Abell, a New York City law firm, died of thyroid cancer on Sunday. He was 95.

Stephen Grossman, a lawyer whose firm had an office in Sag Harbor for decades, died on Jan. 14 at NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan of complications of lung cancer. He was 83.

Behold the new real estate report, South Fork edition.

Southampton Town police charged a Bay Shore woman with two felonies last Thursday, saying, first, that she’d left the scene of an accident on Sagg Main Street in Sagaponack, and second, after being located, was discovered to be in possession of “a “quantity of illegal drugs and paraphernalia.” 

Paid Notice: Joe, who recently moved to Tampa, Florida, passed away at a hospice facility in Palm Harbor on January 6. Joe was 74 years old. Joe, who was known to his family and friends as Bubba, grew up in Brentwood, Long Island before moving to Amagansett around 1970, following a number of friends who were into the surfing culture at the time.

Betsy Kenyon woke up at dawn on her 59th birthday two days after Christmas and decided to commemorate it with a 25.8-mile beach walk from Flying Point in Water Mill, where she lives part time, to Montauk.

The Bridgehampton High School Killer Bees followed up a 4-point win at Greenport in December with a 71-37 blowout Friday in the Beehive. Plus Bonac swimming, track, and wrestling updates.

Dzmitry Daniliuk, the Buckskill Winter Club’s personable 30-year-old Belarus-born hockey coach, began playing the sport in Minsk at the age of 6, soon after fleeing a ballet class in which his mother had enrolled him.

Basketball and bowling on tap in the week ahead.

Susan Stroman, a multiple award-winning director and choreographer, has been named president of Guild Hall's Academy of the Arts, an assemblage of some 250 internationally recognized artists.

Hamptons Pride and Bay Street Theater have teamed up for the Hamptons Pride Film Series, which will launch with "Pride," a 2014 British historical comedy-drama.

The frigid winter weather brings out prix fixe menus and other special offerings from the 1770 House, Cittanuova, Il Buco al Mare, Bell and Anchor, and La Fondita.