This week’s load of reader comment, with a note about the holiday deadlines for the next batch of letters to the editor.

From 1949 water worries on the eve of massive Long Island development to the small triumph of halting gun sales at the Bridgehampton Kmart, it happened here, news junkies.

A call to give landmark status to about 30 acres in Wainscott recently bought by East Hampton Town should be heeded.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist, is a Senate vote away from becoming secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.