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Opinion

Think Beyond the C.P.F.

An aptly described monster is rising over Ditch Plain.

Apr 21, 2022
Forecast Improves for Quieter Skies

Despite a late start in coming up with new rules for East Hampton Airport, the town appears to be making progress.

Apr 21, 2022
Gristmill: Big Blow

This year the fun was bled right out of TurboTax.

Apr 21, 2022
Guestwords: Smarts Against Dumbs

In praise of cards and board games, pastimes with staying power.

Apr 21, 2022
Point of View: Time to Spring Clean Our Minds

Thomas Piketty thinks we’re heading toward more equality should the wealth be spread around a bit more.

Apr 21, 2022
The Mast-Head: Sea Turtles’ Dinner

I had a realization, of sorts, swimming in the warm water off Puerto Rico last week.

Apr 21, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: My Vanity

Even when I was a punk-rock teenager of 15 and 16, I kept a carefully curated vanity table, my bottles of drugstore body lotion and mail-order pins and badges displayed like a still life, like a Joseph Cornell assemblage.

Apr 21, 2022
Arts for Whom?

For a few weeks now, we have been thinking about what ails some of our beloved local institutions.

Apr 14, 2022
Education Without Representation

With few exceptions, eastern Long Island’s school boards do not accurately reflect the demographic makeup of their districts.

Apr 14, 2022
Gristmill: In the Airsick Bag

Notes on life in a small plane.

Apr 14, 2022
Guestwords: On Ukraine, Use Less Oil

If we’re interested in reducing the strain on our interdependent world amid this devastating conflict, it’s worth considering a more mundane response: conservation of resources.

Apr 14, 2022
Point of View: Chagrining Bequeathal

It is depressing to think that war, nuclear weaponry, and oceans clogged with plastic will be our legacy to coming generations.

Apr 14, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Don’t Ask Y2K

I’m glad my daughter is finally getting into thrifting.

Apr 14, 2022
A Plea for More Science

A researcher seeking the East Hampton Town Trustees’ blessing for a pollutants study in Accabonac Harbor said that there was little scientific basis for many of town, county, and state initiatives.

Apr 7, 2022
Gristmill: 57 Channels

A cable TV search for something to watch. Something other than ads.

Apr 7, 2022
Guestwords: The Last Slap Story

Poor confused Will Smith.

Apr 7, 2022
Mike Pence, Savior of Democracy

Details of a plot by allies of former President Donald J. Trump and Mr. Trump himself to overturn the results of the 2020 election are increasingly coming to light.

Apr 7, 2022
Point of View: Transcendence in the Everyday

Sag Harbor Village is the big city for me. 

Apr 7, 2022
The Mast-Head: Spring Cleaning

Of late, I have gotten interested in a psychological aspect of cleaning.

Apr 7, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: In the Dark

It was at Theater 80 that I received my education in Barbara Stanwyck and Greer Garson.

Apr 7, 2022
As Per Usual, Sign Laws Ignored

Why are easy-to-enforce local laws ignored every single day of the year?

Mar 31, 2022
Gristmill: Have Songbook, Will Travel

Word from sunny Florida raises hopes for a revived piano circuit.

Mar 31, 2022
Guestwords: Thank You, Frankie Avalon

A Frankie Avalon show at the Suffolk Theater in Riverhead raises questions: What happened to romance? Where have the good times gone?

Mar 31, 2022
Plastic in the Blood a Warning Signal

In late March, researchers published a study that detected microplastics in the blood samples of more than three-quarters of their anonymous, healthy volunteers.

Mar 31, 2022
Point of View: What the Word Saoirse Means

I was delighted to tell Mary the other day what I’d learned, to wit, that the Gaelic word saoirse “means freedom . . . the freedom to be and to express yourself.”

Mar 31, 2022
The Mast-Head: First of the Year

The osprey’s success story.

Mar 31, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Mariupol, 1922

Recollections of an ancestor's relief work in Mariupol, Ukraine, a century ago.

Mar 31, 2022
Call-In Meeting Options Should Live On

Live-streamed local government and school board meetings are here to stay.

Mar 24, 2022
Gristmill: Thank You for Having Me

When expressions of thanks are unfailingly met with more thanks . . .

Mar 24, 2022
Guestwords: Mad for Movies

The sight of the shuttered Southampton movie theater brings to mind “The Last Picture Show,” Peter Bogdanovich’s 1971 masterpiece, and further trips into a filmgoing past.

Mar 24, 2022