Editorials

Major new reports say that smartphone use could be directly linked to poor educational performance while harming children’s emotional stability.

We have been here many times before. Officials and citizens vow to take a fresh look at building rules in the face of overdevelopment, but, in the end, little changes.

Eating out is lovely on a summer evening. But it has also created a potential mess by possibly almost doubling the number of patrons on site at any one time.

Coming soon to a farmers market near you: food-waste bins.

In a study of emergency room visits from 2000 to 2017, researchers at New York University’s School of Medicine concluded that e-bike injuries were the most severe and most likely to require hospitalization.

Speaking in the first person, ChatGPT declared it would be happy to help a Star letter writer. The result was cringe-worthy.

The list of problems is long, but the potential for improving the area around Springs-Fireplace and Three Mile Harbor Roads in East Hampton is great.

The East Hampton Village Board has a golden opportunity ahead to clear up confusion regarding the use of Herrick Park.

It is difficult to know yet whether disaster was averted or just delayed by a United States Supreme Court decision released this week in an important voting case.

Political ties run deep in Suffolk County, and there has been speculation that an old-boy network is behind the extraordinary fines a State Supreme Court justice has imposed on the town.

For the first time, lifeguards at East Hampton Main Beach will have the ability to fly a drone to help pinpoint swimmers in distress.

In praise of Southampton Town’s pay-per-bag system of handling trash.

In a village election season with a deficit of drama, the contest for Sag Harbor justice has become a headliner, and we think Carl Irace is now seasoned enough for the job.

In light of the smoke from the Canadian wildfires, special caution is urged for people who regularly work outside and whose particulate exposure was already high.

Whether the fossil fuel industry likes it or not, the United States is moving toward a point at which the majority of electricity produced in the country is from renewable sources.

When a mostly wooden bridge over the Long Island Rail Road tracks in Amagansett dating to 1895 began to fall apart and was abruptly closed to traffic recently, few residents who frequently use it were surprised.

In the nearly 85 years since the 1938 Hurricane, the Atlantic climate has become more favorable for storm formation.

A well-intended plan to address a profound shortage of places for working people to live could have unintended consequences.

When it comes to road safety, it is not just the holiday weekends to watch out for.

We’re writing in the hope that the East Hampton Village Board has not forgotten Roy Lee Mabery. It is in his memory that the basketball courts — recently bulldozed at Herrick Park — were dedicated.

Going from place to place on two wheels on the South Fork is nerve-racking.

Tuesday could represent a pivotal moment for public education here, with several school districts asking voters to approve larger than usual property tax increases.

A rash of luxury homebuilding on the South Fork has prompted East Hampton Town to appoint a committee to look into revamping the rules that govern how houses are built and where. Expect meaningful results.

In under two weeks’ time, Sag Harbor School District voters will be asked if they approve of a $9.4 million proposal to buy five residential vacant lots on Marsden Street understood to be for an expansion of school athletic fields. We have concerns.

The annual leaf blower rule shifts are coming, with two glaring exceptions: Sag Harbor and East Hampton Village.

How much do people who live in the right-wing news ecosphere know about Fox News’s $787 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems? Not much.

Here on the South Fork, now is the time that the landscape-industrial complex is in full swing.

The idea of a construction moratorium has resurfaced amid a boom in supersize home construction.

There is a curious pairing of the mounting troubles at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter pool and the news that a private operator from Manhattan appears likely to manage a new aquatic center at the Montauk Playhouse that will be constructed largely with public money.

We were stunned last week to learn that Suffolk led by a huge margin among all of the counties in New York in pesticide and herbicide use.