Opinion

Adventures in scrap metal.

The Hampton Jitney’s video of tips and rules sends a regular rider over the edge.

It’s heartening to see the revival of Bonac football, a tradition that dates back to 1923, and at Herrick Park, no less.

Get out your garlands: The East Hampton Star Holiday Spirit decorating contest debuts in November.

Thoughts on the popularity of e-bikes.

I’ve never owned a car I truly loved.

Hurricane Helene’s path from the Gulf of Mexico to Appalachia is a stunning reminder of how little separates much of the United States from massive weather disasters.

A straight father of three sings the praises of Judy Garland.

The Patchogue-Medford High School class of 1962 gathers, and a novelist gets to thinking.

Judging by the relative calm on Main Street at midweek since Labor Day, East Hampton’s population has returned to the seasonal, weekend-versus-midweek, boom-and-bust pattern of pre-Covid-19 days.

Thousands, if not tens of thousands, of what looked like little tropical fish-tank fish were swimming near the surface.

Emails from colleges drift in and pile up in my daughter’s email inbox — and my own email inbox — like the falling leaves of the sugar maple and the red oak.

We salute the people who make the elections run so well in difficult times.

Feeding the beast: On the 800-pound gorilla that is the National Football League.

It can happen here: Applying a professor’s Tourism Area Life Cycle metric is revealing, bordering on bracing.

In honor of the official start of autumn on Sunday, we have a few specific suggestions for making the most of every moment of your favorite month.

The East Hampton Town Board is talking about zoning tweaks that had been proposed in response to a more all-encompassing call for greater building restraints. Just as it had discussed back in May.

An office goldfish heads to the great fish pond in the sky.

My mother, Helen Selden Rattray, has the longevity genes of the Greenland shark. She will be turning 90 years old on Sunday.

Turnout is what ultimately determines tight elections. To a great extent, the idea of swing voters is outdated in these highly polarized times. What matters now is which party can get more of its side off the couch than the other.

It’s been a long, long time since we actually were amped about a candidate for political office, but we are very much amped for John Avlon as a stellar candidate here in the First Congressional District.

The clock is ticking down to Election Day, Nov. 5. Are you ready? Today is a good day to make extra sure there’s no snafu.

Rediscovering the pleasures of AM radio.

Plastics come from multiple sources and have been accumulating in the environment for at least 70 years, since they came into our lives.

There is a certain kind of camaraderie that occurs at the counter of the beer store that I believe happens nowhere else.

I learned from a cheap book I read once on dream decoding, back when we read books, that if you dream of swimming or of the sea that what you are really dreaming about is your subconscious.

A pertinent subject came up at a meeting of Amagansett’s citizens advisory committee Monday, when members heard from a representative of the Devon Yacht Club, which is seeking permits to rebuild its clubhouse. In short, what was the point of the meeting?

Time was, East Hampton was famous as the anti-signage town. Have you noticed an uptick in signs on our streets in the last year or two? We don’t like it.

Someone who grew up in Bridgehampton (this columnist, for one) might think all there was to Leonard Riggio was Minden, his vast and venerable Ocean Road estate. But his passing calls up more.

Remembering the first time I came to the East End 30 years ago also rekindles thoughts of the skyline of India, and my home country’s independence.