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Opinion

A Pool 50 Years in the Making

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

May 21, 2026
Blower Plan Could Go Further

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

May 21, 2026
Gristmill: The Nose Knows

The ne plus ultra in nonverbal communication.

May 21, 2026
Guestwords: The Unhandy Indoorsman

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

May 21, 2026
The Mast-Head: A.I. Honor System

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

May 21, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Old School

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

May 21, 2026
Fleeting Moments of Fair Weather

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

May 14, 2026
Gristmill: Raconteur to the Rescue

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

May 14, 2026
Guestwords: Where Is the There There?

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

May 14, 2026
Killer Bagels

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. 

May 14, 2026
The Mast-Head: Bridge Over Montauk Waters

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.

May 14, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Empty Cities

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

May 14, 2026
Gristmill: Ave Maria

Maria Taylor and the boys of “NBA Showtime” redeem the pro hoops viewing experience.

May 7, 2026
Guestwords: Double Reverse Midas Touch

This is a good time to talk about rejection in all its forms, social, romantic, academic, and work.

May 7, 2026
Pocket-Sized Insurance

East Hampton Town police will join Suffolk County and East Hampton Village in equipping officers with a small but potent lifesaving tool: EpiPens.

May 7, 2026
The Mast-Head: A Bay by Another Name

Geography is fungible.

May 7, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Blackberry Canes

I’m not a lazy person, but if you have happened to drive past my house over the last two or three years you might think a couch potato lived within.

May 7, 2026
‘Balcony Solar’: An Urgent Need

Nothing short of a solar revolution is underway, with cheaper and more accessible options, and yet the citizens of the United States have been left almost completely in the dark about it.

May 7, 2026
Gristmill: Unmanly Men

In troubled times, there’s always comics.

Apr 30, 2026
Guestwords: The Perfectionism Plague

The push for academic success produces far too much distress in high school students. Here are a few ideas for reducing it.

Apr 30, 2026
Shadow Docket Overshadowed

When The Times published a group of internal Supreme Court communications, it laid bare what has now been called “a major milestone in the decline of American democracy.”

Apr 30, 2026
The Mast-Head: Promised Land

A walk in Promised Land State Park offers a chance to reflect on how the fish oil business once thrived there.

Apr 30, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Dreaming Is Free

Are any of you as stumped as I am about what to daydream about now that we are no longer young?

Apr 30, 2026
Young Scientists Give Us Hope

Students’ personalities and passions shone through at the East Hampton High School Science Research Symposium.

Apr 30, 2026
But What About the Signs?

At one point last year, 10 separate signs stood alongside the highway at the supposed “gateway” to East Hampton.

Apr 23, 2026
Chain Stores: A Problem as Old as Time

As prescient as our anti-development forefathers were, no one seems to have predicted what the real murderer of our Main Street small businesses would be: “luxury blight.”

Apr 23, 2026
Gristmill: Paging Senator Church

When a congressional committee led by Frank Church exposed our government’s widespread intelligence abuses.

Apr 23, 2026
Guestwords: Housing Idea’s Time Is Now

Here is a simple solution to solving the affordable housing problem in East Hampton while preventing our businesses from dying.

Apr 23, 2026
The Mast-Head: Do-It-Yourself Damage

In our sixth decade and beyond, we no longer bounce when we hit the ground.

Apr 23, 2026
The Shipwreck Rose: Chuckles and Jujubes

Time to talk about candy again!

Apr 23, 2026