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The Shipwreck Rose: Behemoth

My somewhat critical attitude toward cats — my less than all-embracing affection for all pets, all the time — is a character flaw, I’m aware.

Mar 16, 2023
If It Isn’t Broken . . .

Since ex-police chief and current East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen first started his campaign against the Village Ambulance Association, the main public reaction has been if it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.

Mar 16, 2023
Point of View: Hoping Heaven Will Be Diverse

Is heaven some sort of club, a fraternity? If so, its population may be sparse.

Mar 16, 2023
The Mast-Head: The Great Storm of ’62

Foul weather is just the way it is here in the month of March.

Mar 16, 2023
Gristmill: Terminal Dreaming

The surprising end result of all that construction work at La Guardia.

Mar 16, 2023
No to Private Host at Main Beach Cottages

The East Hampton Village Board again seems intent on handing over its modest Sea Spray Cottages at Main Beach to a for-profit hospitality management company. This is a bad idea. The land should be open to the public, if anything.

Mar 16, 2023
Guestwords: A President for Adults

As Jimmy Carter is now in hospice care, I wonder what might have happened had his prescient words on conservation and self-sacrifice been heeded.

Mar 9, 2023
The Mast-Head: March Is for Planning

There is not so much to do in March, other than plan and perhaps go on walks.

Mar 9, 2023
Point of View: About Keeping Long Company

I am interested in the mixing and remixing of ourselves, and there’s no better feeling than when we’re in tune.

Mar 9, 2023
A Flood in the Heart of the Village

When the basements of about six shops, a cafe, and a gallery in East Hampton Village flooded on Feb. 26, it was bad news at the toughest time of the year.

Mar 9, 2023
Gristmill: Around the Oval

At last, the legendary Washington Heights home of the Millrose Games, “the fastest track in the world.”

Mar 9, 2023
Fox ‘Did Not Believe It for a Second’

It is no coincidence that just as damaging and embarrassing revelations from a lawsuit by a voting machine maker against the Fox television corporation are released, the network’s Tucker Carlson has gone all in on a false retelling of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Mar 9, 2023