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Opinion

The Mast-Head: Out of the Box

There is a deepening frustration with the East End’s direction.

Oct 7, 2021
Gristmill: Cleared for Takeoff

Good times, literally and figuratively, at a massive college cross-country meet in an unlikely place — the National Warplane Museum in northwestern New York.

Oct 7, 2021
New Focus on Town Trustees

With voting to begin in three weeks in an important election cycle, a promising change to the way the East Hampton Town Trustees will be chosen is ahead.

Oct 7, 2021
Guestwords: Columbus Bows Out

On Columbus Day weekend, revisiting Philip Roth’s breakthrough collection with an eye on identity politics.

Oct 7, 2021
The Shipwreck Rose: Swimming to Oblivion

How pleasant it must have been to be an inhabitant of that now-distant Cheever America of General Electric affluence, Buicks and Panasonics, and 10,000 swimming pools.

Oct 7, 2021
Facebook Knew and Did Nothing

Now comes word that Facebook’s leadership knew the harm that it and its apps did and that, far from being something they tried to stop, it was the company’s business model.

Oct 7, 2021
Gristmill: Radio Gaga

There’s a qualitative difference in pleasure between typing names into the YouTube search box and sheer happenstance over the airwaves.

Sep 30, 2021
What Now for Carl Fisher’s House?

Some leeway in the community preservation fund law may have to be found for Fisher’s dream house to be used as an event space, as in for weddings.

Sep 30, 2021
Guestwords: Hail the Rooster

The more people learn about roosters, the more they will appreciate them and want them to have full lives. They will even develop positive attitudes toward their crowing.

Sep 30, 2021
The Shipwreck Rose: Think of England

Deep down, I’ve always been an Anglophile.

Sep 30, 2021
Housing Money in Search of Solutions

A measure passed in the New York State Legislature could radically change how affordable housing projects on the East End are funded.

Sep 30, 2021
Point of View: There’s That Canada Train

“We’ll always have the Wyndham Greencastle Super 8.”

Sep 30, 2021
The Mast-Head: Boat Business

So far I have spent only one night aboard Cerberus, as my work on it continues.

Sep 30, 2021
Guestwords: Beware the Rage Rover

The problem these days is not just the quantity of the traffic, it’s the quality.

Sep 23, 2021
The Shipwreck Rose: Lessons and Carrels

Nothing is cozier and more hygge to me than the East Hampton Library. The library and I go way back.

Sep 23, 2021
Speak Out Now

Early voting is only a month away in an important East Hampton Town Board election, but the real issues remain difficult to sort out.

Sep 23, 2021
Point of View: Humans Are Far to Be Preferred

Help comes for a car that gives up the ghost.

Sep 23, 2021
The Mast-Head: Young of the Year

This is the time when the fledged osprey learn to fend for themselves

Sep 23, 2021
Gristmill: Birdbrains

When grackles attack.

Sep 23, 2021
No ‘Truman Show’

On Oct. 15, the village board will take comments on a proposal that would mandate property-maintenance standards.

Sep 23, 2021
In Basements, a Push and Pull

In 2015, when East Hampton Village officials took on a growing trend of extra-large residential basements, their concern was that the extra living space brought with it a range of complications.

Sep 16, 2021
Point of View: Time to Right a Heeling Boat

When you hear corporate titans and the 1 percent rail that the Democrats’ efforts to revive the middle class in this country are “socialistic,” remember what the founding fathers said.

Sep 16, 2021
Amagansett Saying, ‘Stop!’

Building is out of control in the Town of East Hampton and is changing cherished neighborhoods in the blink of an eye.

Sep 16, 2021
Guestwords: R.I.P. Mike Gordon

Mike Gordon was a dear friend I had met on the softball field in Bridgehampton. The melding of machismo and kindness in one man was irresistible.

Sep 16, 2021
The Mast-Head: The ‘Done’ List

Too often we define ourselves by what we aspire to, rather than what we already have.

Sep 16, 2021
Their Own Worst Enemy

Remarkably, the arguments in favor of keeping East Hampton Airport in operation were generally without substance.

Sep 16, 2021
Gristmill: Book Doctors

A podcast explores the collaborative process of making a story.

Sep 16, 2021
Point of View: A Delight to Listen

It’s up to us, to our inner drive, not to school ties or pedagogical assessments, as to whether we straighten up and fly right.

Sep 9, 2021
The Mast-Head: A Conspicuous Summer

Each busy season here has its own characteristics.

Sep 9, 2021
Behind Closed Doors

The public is not invited. That is the message of a recent East Hampton Village Board decision to go from holding meetings twice each month to just once.

Sep 9, 2021