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Opinion

The Mast-Head: Gum Them Clams

My brother, Dan, used to say that one could survive perfectly well eating nothing other than brown rice and clams.

Dec 29, 2022
Gristmill: The Good Fight

The Ukrainian president cuts through the nonsense.

Dec 29, 2022
Lying to Voters

It is stunning that the Democratic Party would essentially cede the race to George Santos without doing even the most basic background research.

Dec 29, 2022
The Mast-Head: Ode to L.V.I.S. Socks

Buying socks was a problem here — until I noticed a bin in the menswear section at the Ladies Village Improvement Society Bargain Box.

Dec 22, 2022
Gristmill: A Magic Number

Best concert ever: Bob (“Schoolhouse Rock”) Dorough on keys and Richard Sudhalter on cornet at a North Fork vineyard, spring 2002.

Dec 22, 2022
Sewers Will Invite Growth

The old line “If you build it, they will come” should be applied to costly new sewage treatment facilities being planned for Montauk and East Hampton Village.

Dec 22, 2022
Guestwords: Cakes for Peace

Just imagine how much more peaceful the world would be if difficult and/or coldhearted people were walloped with a million daily currents of kindness and love.

Dec 22, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Mr. Ten Below

As with so many things in life as the years tick-tick-tick by, it takes rather more priming of the pump than it used to to achieve the right holiday atmosphere.

Dec 22, 2022
Revisiting Brooks-Park Preservation

On the fate of a town-owned property in Springs where two important modern-art painters once lived and worked, we believe that a middle path should be sought.

Dec 22, 2022
Point of View: The World Cup Brought Home

There is little question that soccer here, the games that have been played by adults since the early 1970s and since 2009 by our high schoolers, has been East Hampton’s pre-eminent sport.

Dec 22, 2022
Guestwords: Our Obsession With Winning

Trump’s actions with respect to losing the election, while extreme, is hardly new. Winning is a supreme value in American culture.

Dec 15, 2022
The Shipwreck Rose: Gossip Monger

The only person I know who says they don’t gossip and holds true to that word is a friend who is autistic.

Dec 15, 2022