Last Thursday evening in Sag Harbor, village police charged a woman with misdemeanor drunken driving after an officer saw that her older model Mercedes had no lights, either headlights or taillights.

Affordable housing, a recurrent campaign theme in East Hampton elections, is a bitter paradox. As the total number of vacation houses climbs upward, there are fewer and fewer places for year-round residents and the seasonal work force to live.

What town government really may need are views from the left — a more liberal, more pro-environment and anti-growth point of view.

Before my husband and I made our move to Greenport last spring, we undertook an epic clearing out of closets, pantry, and basement. It went on for weeks, and unearthed many an interesting relic of lives lived on Edwards Lane.