Smoke from distant fires, meditation with a yogi, celebs in Montauk, and giant, ugly houses in the dunes — some things never change.

A County Legislature candidate introducing herself. A pungent tale of a child defecating inside a market. Who else but The Star has such a range of letters to the editor?

The Villages of Sag Harbor and North Haven suffer from terrible traffic, much of it originating near Long Wharf. Adding a hundred or more people stepping off a cruise ship would make the chaos unsustainable.

September at summer’s end feels as if the world is in a kind of abeyance.