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The Shipwreck Rose: Digging the Dirt

I’m not going to go gentle into that good night.

Jun 16, 2022
‘Unofficial’ Newspapers

The East Hampton Star and The Suffolk Times have been the county’s “official” newspapers for their respective towns for about as long as anyone can remember. That was until this year, when the Suffolk Legislature removed them from the list.

Jun 16, 2022
A Village Election That Really Matters

The question for voters in the village is whether they think it is healthy or wise to support the mayor’s hand-picked candidates.

Jun 9, 2022
Gristmill: The Greenest Patch

What’s all this fuss about lawn care?

Jun 9, 2022
Guestwords: At War With Ourselves

Nature on Earth is in a man-made death spiral, but imagine how much faster we would be killing life as we know it if everyone on this fragile orb followed the lead of America’s most “successful.”

Jun 9, 2022
Hastening the Airport’s Demise

It has been clear that because of their refusal to cooperate on effective noise control, the airport interests themselves are forcing the town’s hand.

Jun 9, 2022
Point of View: Do Something

Countries like Britain, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, all chagrined by mass shootings at one time or another, have all effectively enacted gun safety laws.

Jun 9, 2022
The Mast-Head: Blue Tape

When people complain about tape, most times, it seems to me, they are talking about red. But in my case, my beef is with blue, literally.

Jun 9, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Kind Hearts, Coronets

I have actually considered if I would or wouldn’t bow, if and when I were to meet Queen Elizabeth.

Jun 9, 2022
A War on Children

Here we are again — after each mass shooting, calls resume for stronger gun-control laws. Yet the killing goes on.

Jun 2, 2022
Gristmill: In Search of Lost Carvel

When your kids start going to the movies without you.

Jun 2, 2022
Guestwords: Ghosts of Harmony

I satisfied my departed dad’s spirit as Rosanne Cash sang about enshrining her departed dad during a benefit concert at the State Theatre, a plaster palace in Easton, Pa.

Jun 2, 2022
Missing Word

East Hampton Town appears about to have the wool pulled over its eyes again in Montauk.

Jun 2, 2022
Padel What?

East Hampton Village residents should wonder why precisely it is that the trustees are eager to install a specialized glass playing enclosure for a sport that no one has heard of.

Jun 2, 2022
Point of View: In the Merry Month of May

Covid worries and pollen aside, I can think of nowhere else I’d rather be at this time of year.

Jun 2, 2022
The Mast-Head: Tiny Ninja

Living where I do down in the dunes past Amagansett, ticks are just part of the scenery.

Jun 2, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Jersey Turnpike

Is it weird that I think of mortality — transience and permanence — whenever I drive my car on the New Jersey Turnpike?

Jun 2, 2022
To Bare or Not to Bare

Nantucket voters earlier this month voted in favor of topless bathing. But what about New York State, or even East Hampton?

May 26, 2022
Gristmill: The Green Machine

It can be hard to muster much enthusiasm for N.B.A. players today, when you were weaned on the likes of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale.

May 26, 2022
Guestwords: Fishing for the Uninitiated

If you’re like me, a fishing greenhorn after you’ve already gone gray, I’ve got a few tips.

May 26, 2022
Point of View: It Should Be All of a Piece

Did those who died in this country’s wars, who defended an egalitarian, optimistic, forward-looking society, die so that its lawmaking bodies would simply sit on their hands doing nothing, stymied when confronted with issues demanding action?

May 26, 2022
The Cost of a Shave

It is often said that gas prices are out of whack on the South Fork, and now all prices are.

May 26, 2022
The Elephant in the (Affordable) Room

Most, if not nearly all, of the Airbnb hosts in East Hampton Town are breaking the law.

May 26, 2022
The Mast-Head: An Almost-Forgotten Hero

There is a little-known grave­site in East Hampton where the remains of Nathaniel R. Arch, a genuine United States war hero, lie.

May 26, 2022
Gristmill: Drive, He Said

A plea for no phones at the wheel, before artificial intelligence takes over the roads.

May 19, 2022
Guestwords: Swarm Season

Honeybees will not make a hole in your house, but they will take advantage of an existing one. So be sure to take a good look around your property and seal up all cracks and crevices.

May 19, 2022
Point of View: Not Easy Toss Outs

Ukraine, though its people’s suffering has been appalling, has decidedly not been an easy toss out. We’re rooting for it.

May 19, 2022
The Chicago Precedent

Like Chicago in 2003, East Hampton Town owns its airport, free of promises to the F.A.A. But unlike in the Windy City, there is a growing contingent of residents who say East Hampton’s should be closed.

May 19, 2022
The Mast-Head: View of the Marsh

Spring is a time for paying attention, for noticing things.

May 19, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Whiskey in the Jar

The traditional Irish tune “Whiskey in the Jar” is told from the perspective of a highwayman, a bold deceiver and drunken carouser who meets with an English officer, Captain Farrell, on the Cork and Kerry Mountains.

May 19, 2022