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Jeepers, Peepers, Spring Still Will Come

The entire world may be in flames right now, but it keeps turning, the wheel of the seasons keeps rolling onward to brighter days.

Feb 20, 2025
Preserve the Free Press

It’s not only the Associated Press that’s dealing with White House retaliation.

Feb 20, 2025
The Mast-Head: Supersize Me

If the South Fork of Long Island could have a unifying motto, it might be bigger is better.

Feb 20, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Dead Souls

The world is a much more mysterious place than you thought it was when you were young and certain.

Feb 20, 2025
Gristmill: Eff the Super Bowl

A thoroughly painful viewing experience.

Feb 13, 2025
Guestwords: All Shook Up

On earthquakes, literal and artistic, and how art has the power to not just reflect the times, but shape them.

Feb 13, 2025
Musk Cuts Could Affect Local Projects

The Montauk Inlet holdup is a good illustration of how Americans depend on the federal government to fund critically important work — the kind of necessities threatened by a two-headed presidency’s frenzied rush to cut spending.

Feb 13, 2025
The Company They Keep

The old saw “strange bedfellows” and political expedience are no decent explanation for the cast of unsavory characters our president and his administration go out of their way to call “friend.”

Feb 13, 2025
The Mast-Head: Office Dogs

The Westminster Dog Show may have just concluded with Monty, a giant schnauzer, the overall winner, but every day is dog-show day here.

Feb 13, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Inner Weather

Have you tried Sleep Jar or the ambient noise function on Alexa? My sleep sounds of choice are wintry and stormy. The chill blast.

Feb 13, 2025
Gristmill: American Splendor

Thoughts of Harvey Pekar and life among the files.

Feb 6, 2025
Guestwords: Why I’m in Jail

Two years have passed since I started my adventure teaching memoir writing behind bars. It’s like group therapy without the therapist.

Feb 6, 2025
The Mast-Head: A Better Life

Immigrant labor has helped keep the Hamptons humming for decades, longer if you go back to the turn of the 20th century and the Irish and Italians who worked on the estates of the oceanfront rich.

Feb 6, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: Conversation Hearts

It is the story of my life that, post sixth grade, I have pretty much always been on the giver end of the Valentine exchange.

Feb 6, 2025
Trolligarchy Report: Dark Days in Washington

Elon Musk is out of control and running the show in Washington, D.C. 

Feb 6, 2025
Frozen in Time

Try telling a group of iceboaters that the climate hasn’t changed. Once upon a time, in the 1970s and 1980s, there was ice enough to host racing regattas on Mecox Bay.

Jan 30, 2025
Gristmill: The Happy Hunting Ground

Goodbye to a one-of-a-kind family pet.

Jan 30, 2025
Guestwords: Pacific Palisades, 1957

Before the fire — memories of an idyllic California childhood.

Jan 30, 2025
Love the Beer, Hate the Noise

Nearby residents could rightly be concerned about the noise a public brewery near the intersection of Springs-Fireplace Road and Fort Pond Boulevard could create.

Jan 30, 2025
The Mast-Head: Renaming the Bay

As stupid as renaming the Gulf of Mexico is, it reminds me of a similar effort of my own right here in East Hampton.

Jan 30, 2025
The Retreat at Risk

It is worth taking a closer look at what the Retreat does to understand the depth of the harm a funding freeze would bring.

Jan 30, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: The Copium of the Masses

You employ the words “cope,” “coping,” or “copium” when another person has expressed feelings and desires clearly but you think their actual argument is feeble.

Jan 30, 2025
Bad Day for Global Climate

Oil was a winner this week and wind a loser in the Trump administration’s first round of executive orders.

Jan 23, 2025
Gristmill: Blowhards

Hard time as a captive to talk radio.

Jan 23, 2025
Guestwords: R.I.P. Danny Murray

It’s been a long, lousy month since Danny Murray of the Fairway restaurant passed away.

Jan 23, 2025
Ice, Ice, Baby

Sharpen your skates, East Hampton.

Jan 23, 2025
The Mast-Head: Knit on Demand

The first hat I produced after weeks of work was a bit of a disaster, looking like something a “Game of Thrones” extra would have worn before getting his head chopped off

Jan 23, 2025
The Shipwreck Rose: The Pashmina Years

The pashmina, with its many petal colors like varieties of April flowers, was the late-20th-century version of the Tulip Mania of the Dutch golden age.

Jan 23, 2025
Wildfire Czar Needed

We hope that officials here are seizing the moment to come up with new ways to reduce catastrophic risks in a region underprepared for large-scale wildfires.

Jan 23, 2025
Governor Backs Down on Climate Rules

While Gov. Kathy Hochul’s State of the State speech Tuesday offered some good news for natural resources, organizations involved in fighting climate change were disappointed.

Jan 16, 2025