Opinion

Some thoughts on politics in Alaska.

Adventures in East Hampton retailing.

This is a prime moment for the citizenry and the town to be vigilant about proliferating small cell poles.

On the race for town supervisor.

The trip over to Connecticut aboard Cerberus may have been lovely, but the return made for more of a story.

Other states and countries boast of having the best apples, but they do not have the best apples. We do, thanks to the Halsey family.

What should affordable housing look like? It’s time to think bigger.

The freedom of the petless in a family struggle against the desire for animal companionship.

My fitness regime kept me grounded after my time in the military. Now as a trainer I’m looking to fold therapy into guided physical movement.

Amagansett Main Street could get new lampposts and lighting as part of a long-discussed nighttime illumination redesign. Or not.

News of the London murders reached East Hampton quickly back in 1888.

I’m fascinated by the way certain words get misfiled and, falling through the gears of my thoughts while I sleep at night, come clattering out in the morning when I wake.

Caring for neighbors should extend to curtailing the use of ear-punishing gas-powered lawn equipment.

A scuba diver is swallowed by a sperm whale in Daniel Kraus’s novel “Whalefall.” Now in a movie theater near you? Color me curious.

How Carmen and Leon Lefkowitz came to found Pathfinder Country Day Camp in Montauk in the 1960s, starting a 60-year family run.

Voters in the First Congressional District need to get off their keisters on Nov. 3 and vote for Christopher Gallant. 

Connecticut. It’s closer than you think.

Memories of studying ballet under the tutelage of Gordon Peavy on Newtown Lane.

It would take a lot to ruin America’s favorite sporting pastime, but the proliferation of pass interference penalties is coming close.

The reality is that even with the new East Hampton Emergency Room, many people are going without comprehensive health care here because of the high cost of housing. Here’s a proposal to address the problem.

We need a stronger regulatory hand from the State of New York.

Days are growing noticeably shorter, and this month feels like a rush to get things done.

Beach plum jelly. Pickled corn relish. Six jars sit on the kitchen mantelpiece to be opened later this fall, one by one.

In the 1980s, many of us were just pursuing a liberal arts education for education’s sake.

Notes from an upstate ginmill.

I have participated in most protests of New Jersey black bear hunts since 2003, and I have been arrested, and jailed, for civil disobedience. But a recent arrest was different from the others, and difficult. 

Last weekend’s storm hit hard along the stretch of Gardiner’s Bay where I live.

A reminder of how much things have changed in our family habits since the old century.

These are days of turmoil and ugliness on the university campuses of America.

A Hamptons International Film Festival screening of “NAZA,” a documentary about Israel Defense Forces’ actions in Gaza, is expected to be met by protests.