Opinion

So what’s it gonna be, college-wise, core curriculum lockdown or pick and choose your classes as you see fit?

A road trip to a pioneering surfer’s favorite East End haunts brings a family together.

The very day that Peter Spacek’s chigger cartoon appeared in our paper two weeks ago I got them.

For all the boats kept around here, most are idle most of the time.

There is a growing sense that town and village zoning laws are not up to the task of maintaining the region’s character.

New York’s transportation law needs to be adapted to give local officials the right to regulate loud compression braking.

New York’s First Congressional District vote this fall between Bridget Fleming and Nicholas J. LaLota will be in the context of an election year in which democracy itself is at stake.

The unexpected appearance of hummingbirds has been a highlight of the summer.

For years my grandson had been writing in the brown leather visitors’ book after every summer stay at our beach house. Then one day he stopped.

One of the major thrusts in our founding documents, as I understand them, was to shield this democratic republic from autocracy.

Avoiding the leaf litter and damp grass where up to a thousand or more tick larvae lurk is the best strategy this time of the year.

When I navigated off the interstate, I knew exactly where the graveyard would be with Kerouac’s grave.

Bike lanes matter — a lot.

The D.H. comes to the National League, and no one misses the old ways.

I got to know Simon Perchik — prolific poet, friend, disputator, World War II vet — when he was barechested and in boxer shorts.

People who leave vehicles running when not necessary are creating real health and environmental dangers.

Where meanness, which surfaces every now and then, comes from I don’t know.

A much-needed new affordable housing venture in East Hampton should not go without comment.

A hearty “Well done!” is owed the many hands who made Friday’s opening of the revamped and superb Lars Simenson Skatepark in Montauk possible.

Step outside of the East Hampton Star building on Main Street on a summer day and there is a very high probability that a private jet will be overhead.

We’re going to get petty this week, reader. Let’s get trifling. Let’s talk about signage.

There is no end to the big ideas for high-profile locations.

There was no way we were going to let news of a giant metallic sculpture of a bull in Herrick Park go without comment.

Alaska's crabs have gone missing and climate change is the prime suspect.

Shades of Jimmy Carter, the part of my hair suddenly switched sides.

I've had some amusing experiences while passing stones. Have you?

I must say, in retrospect, that if the coronavirus were still raging, Authors Night would have been a good place to catch it.

As August rolls to a leisurely close, a minor mystery has returned to my neighborhood: the Cranberry Hole Road banana bandit is back after a long absence. 

And now for the budget portion of our Italian vacation.

Reports coming from the National Hurricane Center in Miami have been dull this season, but they will not remain so.