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Opinion

The Mast-Head: ‘Chigger’ Time Again

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.

Sep 8, 2022
Rumble on Main Street

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

Sep 8, 2022
Gristmill: Backyard Buzz

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

Sep 8, 2022
Wrong in the Right Lane

Bike lanes matter — a lot.

Sep 8, 2022
Gristmill: Batter Up

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

Sep 1, 2022
Slow Steps on Housing

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

Sep 1, 2022
Guestwords: Memories of Simon Perchik

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

Sep 1, 2022
A cultural aversion to commercialized vistas — a near-universal dislike of unnecessary signs — goes back a century in East Hampton. The Ladies Village Improvement Society led the charge against billboards, playbills, neon, and other forms of visual clutter.East Hampton Star archive The Shipwreck Rose: The Signless Town

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

Sep 1, 2022
Soaring on Four Wheels

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.

Sep 1, 2022
Point of View: What Cicero Said

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

Sep 1, 2022
The Mast-Head: On the Flight Path

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.

Sep 1, 2022
No Parking at Idle

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

Sep 1, 2022