Opinion

Setting aside nostalgia for the days when local politics didn’t divide so starkly into blue and red camps, the fact is that single-party rule is simply a bad way to make important decisions.

For Helen S. Rattray, a “testimony and witness to more than a half-century of community life.”

I’ve had this idea for a few years now that requires some artistic assistance. Does anyone know a mapmaker?

If there were any doubt about how thoroughly the Trump administration has drunk from the cup of Orwellian doublethink, it has been dispelled.

On the real-world human impact of the Trump administration abruptly halting the United States’ vast aid network to the world’s poor and suffering.

Close and not-so-close encounters with bears.

How well do bioplastics decompose? While they claim to be compostable, many, including the most common, require industrial high-temperature composting and do not degrade in home composters, soil, or water.

New York State police and local law enforcement agencies will once again conduct special details to enforce vehicle and traffic laws in work zones.

President Trump’s degrading of our system of laws through deportations hurts us all and raises the chilling question of how far this administration will go.

The ospreys are back for the season, and I’ve spent more time than usual watching the show.

We’re having a potluck lunch on Sunday at Ashawagh Hall, following the 11 a.m. memorial gathering there for my mother, Helen S. Rattray.

The Trump administration has declared all-out war on higher education, and America’s role as the world leader of scientific and medical progress is at stake.

Willie’s Roadhouse has a new fan.

We need to show Americans a higher power that has a story they can claim as their own. We need to show that God is empowering ordinary people to do God’s work in the face of dark forces.

A feisty young Jewish woman from New Jersey, Helen S. Rattray became the editor and publisher of The Star after her first husband, Everett Rattray, died in 1980 at the age of 47.

A tale of intense culture shock, of seeing America anew.

The present town board may believe that any project it devises is benign, but the members fail to understand that a future board could misuse the relaxation of rules having to do with community-centered projects.

A “Minecraft” movie might sound unwatchable, but the phenomenon of teenage audience participation it has spurred is most welcome.

The mysterious pull of a struggling Southern Tier downtown and its one-of-a-kind hotel.

For 30 years my life and my brother’s did not cross, despite good reasons to reconnect. And then it all changed.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board made the right move recently by demanding additional study of a planned 50-unit industrial park in Wainscott.

I have always been a do-it-yourselfer, even about food.

Pondering this week where I’d stash my cash, apropos of the possibly pending global financial collapse, the strategy of parking money in companies that manufacture small indulgences seems about right.

What happens to our data when a company changes hands is just one of many good questions in this age of digital Big Brother. Too bad public indifference is so widespread.

It is a national challenge. In many places, there are simply too many people competing for too few affordable places to live, and nowhere worse than on the South Fork.

The pleasure and practicality of a loaner.

What happens when loss is slow, the goodbye extended? Is it something to treasure or to dread?

The osprey is a kind of modern-day phoenix, risen from the ashes of near-extermination.

Zaire had attracted me for what I perceived as its perch on the knife edge between order and chaos. I had sought a challenge.

All the way to Florida and back it was my daughter, Nettie, who led me in the right direction, not the other way around.