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The Shipwreck Rose: Sweet and Tart

Beach plum jelly, made from the juice of the fruit, is far and away the most popular thing to cook from beach plums, but there are other things, less obvious things, you can do with your harvest.

Aug 31, 2023
Suffolk’s 5.5-Percent Montauk Ripoff

Suffolk’s enforcement of the accommodation tax was overdue. Far too many property owners using Airbnb and its competitors to handle sub-30-day rentals were operating as de facto hotels, but not paying up.

Aug 31, 2023
Point of View: From Dreck Exempt Me

The Hampton Classic must know me by now. I’ve only been covering the show since 1979.

Aug 31, 2023
The Mast-Head: Bacalao and Bilge

Cerberus, my 28-foot-long Cape Dory sloop, is heavy enough to have its own gravitational pull, at least into the bilge. A stubborn black goo has settled there and if the floorboard is lifted it smells like the bathroom in the Mos Eisley Cantina in the first “Star Wars.”

Aug 31, 2023
What a Difference a Degree Makes

Hurricane Idalia’s overnight surge to Category 4 has been attributed to record warmth in the oceans.

Aug 31, 2023
Point of View: For the Record

To think that a newspaper — The Marion County Record in Kansas, in this case — was virtually shut down by a police raid at the heart of which may have been a marital dispute is mind-boggling.

Aug 24, 2023
The Mast-Head: Grown From Seed

These are the weeks that gardens are supposed to be in finest form, high summer.

Aug 24, 2023
Business on the Beach

Enforcement is not East Hampton Town government’s best feature, and a locally run business that has monopolized a portion of a popular ocean beach in Montauk is a prime example.

Aug 24, 2023
Gristmill: As Seen on TV

Joe Theismann’s leg: a retelling.

Aug 24, 2023
Committee Conflict

Looking through the official East Hampton Village website recently, one of our reporters noticed something strange about a committee created to review a proposed sewage system in the historic district.

Aug 24, 2023
Guestwords: Finding Sugar Man

Memories of Sixto Rodriguez, singer-songwriter who found late fame.

Aug 24, 2023
The Shipwreck Rose: A Parrot, a Plumeria

It’s cringey to swoon over someone else’s home island and say you heard its siren song and “fell in love.” But . . .

Aug 24, 2023