Opinion

Shades of Jimmy Carter, the part of my hair suddenly switched sides.

I've had some amusing experiences while passing stones. Have you?

I must say, in retrospect, that if the coronavirus were still raging, Authors Night would have been a good place to catch it.

As August rolls to a leisurely close, a minor mystery has returned to my neighborhood: the Cranberry Hole Road banana bandit is back after a long absence. 

And now for the budget portion of our Italian vacation.

Reports coming from the National Hurricane Center in Miami have been dull this season, but they will not remain so.

Officials are eager to fund massive sewage treatment projects for the commercial downtowns in Montauk and East Hampton, but they will open new development opportunities.

From streaming services to superheroes, it’s sensory overload.

It was the summer my family discovered “the Black Hamptons.”

Don’t look back, as Satchel Paige said, for something might be gaining on you.

A hero of roadside seed spreading.

My extremely rudimentary ideas of Rome previously came from the movies.

The undiscovered country of Riverhead dining.

A close-up look at Abraham Lincoln’s presidency offers possibilities for our own political polarization.

A coach’s argument that his prayers following high school football games were private and personal is hard to believe.

Officials are on track to complete a document intended to guide the town on policy to face sea level rise and other effects of a warming climate. We have seen this before.

Deer have radically altered the microhabitat here.

Whenever the subject of romance comes up, I like to say that I reached my peak of popularity in July 1979.

With still more than a month to go before the use of gas-powered leaf blowers will be allowed for fall cleanups, we would like to remind property owners and professional landscapers of the rules.

Once again, the dark side of national Republicans has been put on display.

The imposition of a California-style water emergency here might be a shock to some people but it should not be.

Notes on the air-conditioning wars.

For me Pig Latin is a little like Swedish. Everyone who speaks it reminds me of the characters in a Bergman film who have lost their faith in God.

I say the evidence as to Donald Trump’s criminal intent has been there all along.

East Hampton Town and Village should give beach parking permits to enrolled members of the Shinnecocks and Montauketts.

An encounter with driveway theft.

Spaghetti-eaters have been scratching their names and initials into the wood paneling at Sam’s Restaurant on Newtown Lane since 1947.

A show for the (restaurant) working stiff.

This year our little church by Accabonac Creek, the Springs Community Presbyterian Church, celebrates its 140th year. I call it one of the great cathedrals of the world.

All one has to do is keep an eye on social media to know that something is wrong in Montauk.