Opinion

East Hampton Town should never have gotten itself into the public storm it now faces over a plan to install artificial turf playing fields on a site off Stephen Hand’s Path.

Rather than kind acts, it’s the failures to act kindly that I tend to remember.

Road rage: Nine out of 10 people say they don’t have it. Actually, I have no idea if that’s true; I just made up the statistic to get your attention. But the subject has been on my mind a lot lately.

My career on the stage was short and inglorious.

The new curve-topped trash bins adorning the East Hampton Village business district are frankly ugly.

A sobering new study of the East Hampton shoreline has shown significant degradation.

A happy memory of a trip to a micro brewery, and an unhappy realization that now all bottled beer tastes stale.

On a winter drive with my husband one Sunday afternoon, we started to list all the people we’ve known from the neighborhood who are no longer here — their absence struck a powerful note.

A couple of weeks ago things were so garbled on the sports page that Mary thought some readers might think I was senile. “Don’t worry,” someone in the front office said. “People have been saying that for years.”

We are extremely pleased that the momentum for a new Dominy museum has returned.

We are in a housing crisis on the South Fork. No one seems to have found the right solution.

Why I gave my 9-year-old son a BB gun for Christmas merits a bit of explanation.

With the airport private, the town in theory could just say no to certain kinds of aircraft and commercial flights or limit the number and timing of takeoffs and landings.

A proposal to double the number of affordable residences that could be built per acre in certain zones could go a long way toward easing the housing crisis in East Hampton.

A father and a daughter, playoff football on the TV at a snow-swept B&B, and the glories of western New York.

The surprising connection between home design and phobias.

Having fallen kersplat on a particularly unforgiving sidewalk near Starbucks the other day, I knew it was time to trade in my sneakers.

No rink can compare to the joy of gliding on wide-open surfaces with the wind at our backs.

Birds’ cries are full of mystery.

Times have indeed changed regarding East Hampton Airport, but so far, not all elected town officials appear to have taken notice.

Those 18-wheeler trucks carrying boulders in an eastward direction can be seen as a symbol of things to come.

A tough row to hoe for the college bound.

Brent Newsom, in memoriam.

We sat rapt last night, beyond our bedtime, through a chilling “Frontline” report on those who think their freedom’s infringed if they cannot infringe upon the freedom of others.

Few things are as satisfying as a well-done home repair.

A litany of localism test questions

Today marks the one-year anniversary of one of the darkest days in United States history.

From Atlanticville to Hog Neck, what happened to the great place names of yore?

In the last few weeks of 2021, my body put a stop to overtasking and sent me to the corner to think about what I’d done.

Sports here got off to a stuttery start last year at this time, and I’m hoping this dreary virus doesn’t eat again into one of my life’s chief joys, which is rooting animatedly for the home, sweet home team.