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The Shipwreck Rose: Window Shopping

We are swimming upstream against the mighty current of all-consuming consumerism as Black Friday approaches.

Nov 21, 2024
Gristmill: A Yankee Repast

It was as welcome as it was toothsome when Brian Collins, pitmaster, served up a colonial meal, history lesson on the side, at the Nathaniel Rogers House.

Nov 14, 2024
Guestwords: Faith and Politics

There are people in my Protestant church tradition who will say you shouldn’t mix politics and religion. But that’s impossible. The teachings in Scripture in any of our religious traditions call for responsible action based on central affirmations of faith.

Nov 14, 2024
Lee Zeldin: Long Island’s Pollution Export

It is hardly surprising that Donald Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency is a man staunchly on the side of polluters. This is fealty over expertise.

Nov 14, 2024
Press Freedom Is Essential

Donald Trump views journalists as the “enemy of the people.” It is urgent that the PRESS Act pass the Senate.

Nov 14, 2024
The Mast-Head: Ghost in the House

Recalling then-Representative Lee Zeldin’s strange town hall in Amagansett.

Nov 14, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: Circus Maximus

The movies are my lexicon.

Nov 14, 2024
A Home Run

If this week has taught us anything, it’s that we need more opportunities to come together for fun. You got a taste of that if you had a chance to stop by the block party that the East Hampton Village Foundation hosted on Newtown Lane on Oct. 26 as the Yankees faced the Dodgers in Game 2 of the World Series.

Nov 7, 2024
All Signs Equally

It almost seems a drop in a vast sea of uncertainty to talk of something as seemingly small as signs in Sag Harbor. Yet in the context of the re-election of a Constitution-defying leader, small freedoms will come to loom large.

Nov 7, 2024
Gristmill: Ghosts of Shinnecock Hills

Casting an early ballot in the old Southampton College gym brings on the hoop dreams.

Nov 7, 2024
Guestwords: Once in Paris

Memories of a time abroad that taught one writer how to truly experience travel.

Nov 7, 2024
Shifting on Its Axis

Overnight, from Tuesday to Wednesday, the world shifted on its axis. We can pretend we awoke to the same country, and go about our business, but we did not.

Nov 7, 2024
The Mast-Head: Not Sailing

A number of people I’ve run into in the past couple of weeks have asked about my sailboat and what the status of its motor retrofit is. Perhaps it was because of the unseasonably mild weather that some minds turned to sailing.

Nov 7, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: In the Dark

Many, many years — and many shattered illusions — ago, during the presidential election year of 2004, when I was a magazine editor in Manhattan, I volunteered during the Republican National Convention as an “election observer.”

Nov 7, 2024
Gristmill: The Bulging Billfold

Paging George Costanza? My college-age son has a wallet beyond his years.

Oct 31, 2024
Guestwords: See You November 7

Proposals for some development regulations that just might save this place are up for a public hearing with town board members next Thursday, Nov. 7, at 6 p.m. at Town Hall.

Oct 31, 2024
The Mast-Head: Audience of One

I have a problem with genius jerks who have a great idea in a garage somewhere and then see themselves as gods.

Oct 31, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: Society News

I am overawed by previous generations of Rattray women who managed to file their weekly Star columns without a break over the span of four and five decades.

Oct 31, 2024
Continuity in the Assembly

Fred W. Thiele Jr., who has represented the East End in the State Assembly for nearly 30 years, leaves enormous shoes to fill. He has endorsed Tommy John Schiavoni to replace him, calling him the candidate with "the temperament, maturity, and leadership skills needed to get things done."

Oct 30, 2024
For Harris-Walz

For decency. For rationality. For science. For truth — and for many, many other reasons — we are for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Oct 30, 2024
No to Proposition 3

Voters in East Hampton Town should vote "No" on Proposition 3. If approved, the proposition would allow town officials to take protected status away from a wooded, 2.4-acre triangle at the confluence of Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Roads on North Main Street in East Hampton.

Oct 30, 2024
Palumbo for State Senate

State Senator Anthony Palumbo can be found on the Republican and Conservative ballot lines. We believe that he is the better choice for our end of Long Island.

Oct 30, 2024
Zipped Lips LaLota

Representative Nick LaLota is in a tough spot: trying to present himself as a moderate while not appearing so cozy with Democrats that he risks alienating his conservative District 1 base.

Oct 30, 2024
For Water Quality

Proposition 2 on Suffolk County ballots this election cycle would allow the county to raise the sales tax by one-eighth of 1 percent to support a dedicated Water Quality Restoration Fund.

Oct 24, 2024
Gristmill: Up, Up, and Away

The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo triggers (in a good way) one non-pilot.

Oct 24, 2024
Guestwords: Pity the Bees

Thoughts on a neighborhood spraying of pesticides, weekly through the end of December.

Oct 24, 2024
In Defense of Gunning

Should a gun club be allowed to exist in East Hampton in 2024? 

Oct 24, 2024
The Gender Scare

The far right, in its weird obsession with gender, sees Proposition 1 and the Equal Rights Amendment only through a distorted lens of students and sports.

Oct 24, 2024
The Mast-Head: Beware the Zombie Deer

Deer are rapidly adapting to their new reality and doing things they never did before.

Oct 24, 2024
The Shipwreck Rose: The Groucho Vote

I’m a believer in the veil of distraction. It seems to me blatantly obvious that Karl Marx was correct on that score, anyway.

Oct 24, 2024