Legislature’s Time to Act on Cuomo
As more women go public with accounts of harassment by New York Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, the other big scandal — nursing home deaths from Covid-19 — risks becoming overshadowed.
Suppress Voter Suppression
Lack of proof has not stopped Republicn legislatures from attempting to pass all sorts of mostly race-based exclusions. Congress is wrestling now with the For the People Act, a massive, 800-page voting rights bill that would make it more difficult for states to cheat.
The Mast-Head: Hook Pond, Mostly Downhill
Regular readers of The Star’s editorial pages might have noticed that our official position with regard to the ecological importance of Hook Pond and its tributaries, notably the present mud bog known as Town Pond, is that it would be nice to restore them, but there are far higher priorities.
The Shipwreck Rose: Semper Fido
My mother, who wrote a column called “Connections” in this space for more than 40 years, has only made one remark on “The Shipwreck Rose” since I began my own column last July: “I see you are styling the dog’s name as one word, Sweetpea,” she says, with the sideways gaze and slightly arched eyebrows of a disdainful veteran copy editor, “rather than two.”
Gristmill: The Chuck and Kenny Show
The commentary of Charles Barkley and Kenny Smith — the last vestiges of a watchable N.B.A.
Point of View: Dia de los Innocentes
The Town Board ruled today that, once the coronavirus pandemic has run its course, all of our schools, aside from those for toddlers, be turned into affordable housing units, thus going far to solve that problem, and, further, that henceforth a new without-walls system of education be created wherein students, through visits to mentors living here, whether engaged in the trades, the professions, or arts, will participate in hands-on learning.
Guestwords: Once at the News Co.
How a slotted space for newspapers in an old Main Street store’s cabinetry came to symbolize something more — an arrival.
Recorded Deeds 04.01.21
AMAGANSETT
Ama Ballenero L.L.C. to Ocean PSP L.L.C., 12 Whalers Lane, Dec. 14, $11,000,000.
BRIDGEHAMPTON
Sutton Farms L.L.C. to Sand and Snow L.L.C., 16 Highland Terrace, Sept. 30, $4,800,000.
EAST HAMPTON
7 Crooked Highway L.L.C. to Alexandra and Kyle Widrick, 7 Crooked Highway, Sept. 18, $3,278,060.
56 Miller Lane L.L.C. to Robert and Sarah Santangelo, 52 Indian Hill Road, Mar. 1, $2,995,000.
Letters to the Editor for April 1, 2021
Love and Prayers
East Hampton
March 21, 2021
Dear David,