Opinion

Learning to love the high school band.

A retailer’s lament: When that woman on the Main Street bench is not who you expect.

The case of Brownie the Rooster underscored the ongoing tension between people who live here and others for whom their properties are a moneymaking opportunity.

It’s boring to force others to listen to the stories of your dreams, so I do apologize to be telling one here.

Tragically and shockingly, there have been a number of deaths on the water here since the fall.

The question is whether East Hampton Democratic Primary voters will be skeptical of Jerry Larsen as Democrat.

Pounding the Bridgehampton pavement for the Potatohampton 5K does tend to trigger the memories.

Joy is how we survive, and Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” was one place to find it.

Having spent the better part of 60 years noting the comings and goings of the Promised Land and Pond o’ Pines osprey, I feel as if I know them.

Encounters with a Columbia undergrad with a “Brideshead Revisited” aura and Julian Sands good looks.

The Trump administration's plan to begin dismantling a network of some 900 deep-sea buoys and other instruments that monitor ocean currents and temperatures — a massive effort to undermine ocean sciences — is less about cost cutting and more about the culture wars.

A mismatched set of first-time candidates will appear on the June 23 Democratic primary ballot for New York’s First Congressional District.

The King of Comics gets a street named after him.

From Kent State to Minneapolis.

For New York State residents, registering to vote — or changing one’s voting location — is among the easier tasks involving officialdom.

What would anyone want with a ratty old fiberglass dinghy?

I am building a criminal case against our pet housecat.

Now that Memorial Day weekend is in the rearview mirror, parking aggravation takes up more and more brain space. If any reader doubts that our streets and infrastructure are at max capacity, just consider how frequently parking news made headlines this spring.

Well, it’s finally happened. Voters have approved the construction of an indoor pool at East Hampton High School.

An East Hampton Village plan to extend the dates during which gas-powered blowers are banned is missing a larger point. 

The ne plus ultra in nonverbal communication.

What is it about acquiring the deed to a house that makes a lifetime desk-job guy become a Bob the Builder wannabe?

Artificial intelligence has crept into the letters to the editor and I don’t like it.  

I appreciate King Charles’s defense of classical architecture and historic preservation.

Herewith, a list of pleasant things to do in this fair weather before the holiday-weekend hordes arrive.

Good for what ails you: Fran Lebowitz and David Letterman in the 1980s.

Looking for what’s real beneath the sensationalism of the Fabulous Hamptons.

A bill passed in April and now waiting to be signed into law by Gov. Kathy Hochul would ban a chemical food additive used to make bagels — and pizza crust — chewy and more stretchable. 

Developers trying to get one over on the town is nothing new, but how a Montauk project of this size got past officials has not been explained.

Despite the depopulation, urban blight, and rats, Baltimore does have a particular and piquant charm.