Opinion

A goodbye to Little League and its ball field.

At last, lyrics you could sink your teeth into.

When the East Hampton Town Board gave restaurants the go-ahead to provide outdoor table service, it may have unleashed a wave of unintended consequences.

Again today, the world is witness to invasion, resistance, and the need to escape repression.

Being by the ocean is not, to me, a frivolous pursuit.

The victory Tuesday of Sarah Amaden and Carrie Doyle in the East Hampton Village trustee election cements Mayor Jerry Larsen’s NewTown Party’s hold on the village board.

I’m intrigued by the fact that I’ve been diagnosed with paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia.

It’s important to talk about how social media distorts the digital world we see — and don’t see.

We have to wonder if Lee Zeldin will bring his conspiracy mania to the governor’s race.

Convenience mart food, and food for thought, at a pit stop in the land of plenty.

According to our sources at the various East End food pantries, many of our neighbors still need assistance getting healthful meals on the table.

We are seeing a resurgence of attitudes antagonistic to correcting systemic racism. After two years of listening, there is not only fatigue around these conversations, but also significant pushback. So we must act.

I’m not going to go gentle into that good night.

The East Hampton Star and The Suffolk Times have been the county’s “official” newspapers for their respective towns for about as long as anyone can remember. That was until this year, when the Suffolk Legislature removed them from the list.

What’s all this fuss about lawn care?

It has been clear that because of their refusal to cooperate on effective noise control, the airport interests themselves are forcing the town’s hand.

Nature on Earth is in a man-made death spiral, but imagine how much faster we would be killing life as we know it if everyone on this fragile orb followed the lead of America’s most “successful.”

I have actually considered if I would or wouldn’t bow, if and when I were to meet Queen Elizabeth.

The question for voters in the village is whether they think it is healthy or wise to support the mayor’s hand-picked candidates.

Countries like Britain, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, all chagrined by mass shootings at one time or another, have all effectively enacted gun safety laws.

When people complain about tape, most times, it seems to me, they are talking about red. But in my case, my beef is with blue, literally.

Covid worries and pollen aside, I can think of nowhere else I’d rather be at this time of year.

Living where I do down in the dunes past Amagansett, ticks are just part of the scenery.

Here we are again — after each mass shooting, calls resume for stronger gun-control laws. Yet the killing goes on.

When your kids start going to the movies without you.

East Hampton Village residents should wonder why precisely it is that the trustees are eager to install a specialized glass playing enclosure for a sport that no one has heard of.

I satisfied my departed dad’s spirit as Rosanne Cash sang about enshrining her departed dad during a benefit concert at the State Theatre, a plaster palace in Easton, Pa.

Is it weird that I think of mortality — transience and permanence — whenever I drive my car on the New Jersey Turnpike?

East Hampton Town appears about to have the wool pulled over its eyes again in Montauk.

It can be hard to muster much enthusiasm for N.B.A. players today, when you were weaned on the likes of Larry Bird, Robert Parish, and Kevin McHale.