Opinion

The East Hampton Town Trustees are making the right move in joining a group of fishermen suing to preserve their access to a 4,000-foot-long portion of ocean beach.

Asked by an interviewer recently if I could describe the two Covid years in one word, I replied, “Constraint.”

It was one of those little moments when something someone casually says can change your trajectory for good.

The world of 1970s snackitude was fully encompassing, a total sensory experience of taste, texture, aroma, sound, and vision.

Our hearts break for the Ukrainian people, as bombs and missiles continue to wreck their cities, and we fear that the worst days may still be ahead.

Heavy eastbound traffic in the morning has resumed in force this week, prompting thoughts of limiting growth.

Opponents of an underground electrical wind farm cable now being installed in Wainscott have filed a lawsuit.

Sag Harbor’s mayor alludes to a stigma on wheels.

The former president famously doesn’t like emails, so many of his feelings were recorded on the back side of his McDonald’s orders from Jan. 4 and Jan. 5.

Something about selling alcohol at East Hampton Main Beach seems off.

We went to the Sag Harbor Cinema recently, and in leaving I said to Mary that we’d never again have to go to New York City.

For the first time in my memory, we have not a single letter to the editor about East Hampton Airport.

With Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine now nearing its third week of active hostilities, the time may have come for conservatives of good conscience in the United States to take back the narrative from the Donald Trump-Tucker Carlson right wing.

Personality-driven commentary and ingratiating displays of concern in place of reporting is exactly what the father of the 24-hour news cycle, Ted Turner, did not want.

Many aspects of Russia’s war on Ukraine are eerily similar to Hitler’s invasion of Holland in May 1940. But the differences matter.

You would think that Vladimir Putin would have chosen a sport other than judo, “the gentle way.” 

Once again, East Hampton Town officials have been trying to figure out how to deal with the ever-increasing number of large events held here during the summer season.

In the coming weeks, work on an initial set of five bronze bricks bearing the names of enslaved people will begin.

Do teenagers still pool-hop at strangers’ homes in the best ZIP codes? I hope they do.

The challenges of a nightly reading habit.

How divided is our country? Our medical community? We can’t even agree on what a fever is.

In a tribute to Ukraine, a sharp reminder of the importance of knowing the past and how that knowledge can give us a better understanding of the present.

The benefits of bilingual education, especially on Long Island, are obvious.

Recognizing the pressure of a rapidly heating planet, change may be coming, in East Hampton Town, at least.

Big birds of prey seem to be all around, and my perch in the dunes off Cranberry Hole Road is a decent enough place to see them.

We feel that March is the true start of the year, just as it’s obvious that February is the year’s gruesome and grizzled end.

The visually pleasant change in the Reutershan Lot is not without a significant public safety risk.

The weirdness of the Beijing Winter Olympics was perfectly mirrored by the intricacies and dead zones of NBC’s Peacock streaming service.

Mounting evidence suggests that nature enhances children’s development in important ways.

The East Hampton Town Board withers in the face of lawsuits from pilots and the air-transportation industry, and a letter from the F.A.A.