Opinion

As we are bombarded with information detailing catastrophic environmental degradation around the world, it often seems we live in a bubble here on the East End.

Whenever someone talks about “a more innocent time” and the faraway days of childhood happiness, my mind drifts to the house on Egypt Close where my friends Katy and Jenny Paxton lived.

The stakes are unusually high in a Democratic Party contest for a congressional candidate for New York District 1. Voting in the primary is June 25.

I rather like noxious fumes, having grown up in the ’50s in Pittsburgh.

A massive deaccession after the office furnace blew up has prompted a bit of soul searching of the Marie Kondo sort.

Second-guessing the first exercise outing of spring.

Rowdy Hall has settled its beef with the town over the paint on its facade, but this should not put to rest the question of what is appropriate and who gets to say so when it comes to land use and redevelopment.

Montauk on steroids: A stroll down the immense concrete boardwalk-slash-sea wall at Virginia Beach.

The new plan for Herrick Park looks a lot like the old park plan put forward in 2019 by the previous village administration. 

On an Audubon expedition into the American Southwest with busload of college kids in the early 1990s, among them was a young John Avlon, now running for Congress.

I’d wanted to see Monticello since I was a teenager.

Why did several speed bumps get placed on Highway Behind the Pond, of all places?

You almost wish that the Ottoman Empire had remained intact.

All is well at the wind farm cable landing spot in Wainscott.

About 275 acres of land on 182 parcels are undeveloped along Springs-Fireplace Road.

This is not the time to bury our heads in the sand or in our electronic devices.

The Star building, completed around 1901, is a relative toddler among others on East Hampton’s Main Street.

The stressed global environment has to be addressed — for whales, dolphins, and everything else on Earth.

Today is Pi Day, reminding me that I know nothing of mathematics.

The Amagansett School District needs a new superintendent. Again.

Keeping up with the chickens on the Delmarva Peninsula.

Thank heaven for the Ladies Village Improvement Society.

In praise of John Avlon’s bid for Congress.

So the town wants to put sand onto the depleted Ditch Plain Beach. Then what?

What I learned playing the Grand Inquisitor in a high school play, while experiencing my own interrogations off the stage.

What happens when a furnace goes blooey.

East Hampton Town government appears divided after the planning board correctly said that it, not the town board, should be in charge of review of the proposed new senior citizens center.

“We deserve the second-best and the second-best is now!”

There is precedent showing that congestion pricing works, but it won’t be without repercussions for East Enders.

At an arty dinner party in Sag Harbor a woman announced to the table, “There’s just too much art!” If that day ever comes, we’re in trouble.