Artist Alice Aycock takes big themes and ties them together in ways that aspire to make sense of our world. She didn’t sit down at the beginning of her career and break down the world into categories, but distinct categories did emerge. Cities, wars, mechanical movements, games, universe schemes, languages and dances are all lenses through which she looks, and that in turn lends insight into the cultures or time periods she’s examining in her work.

Since becoming parents four years ago, Claudia and Wendy Tarlow have committed themselves to leading as “green” a lifestyle as possible, from the foods they eat to the cleaning products they use in their Sag Harbor home.

The historic bones of a building that date back to the 18th century have been exposed on Main Street, Sag Harbor. What has become an excavation site — floorboards, radiators, windows, nails, recovered glass bottles and even animal bones carefully collected and stored — is actually the beginnings of a project aimed at saving a historic building that has long sat, aging, sagging and literally rotting into the dirt beneath its floorboards.

There’s always a customer, homeowner, or another broker who incites a broker to the brink of a criminal act. Such incendiary acts include:

1. A customer incapable of making a decision.

2. A customer who brings his or her relatives (numerous times) for an opinion on the house he says he means to buy.

By Karl Grossman Foes of what has become a huge Long Island noisemaker — commercial helicopter traffic taking people between Manhattan and East Hampton Airport — gathered as warm weather neared and coming with it an intense increase of the chopper traffic. The strategy mapped out at a joint meeting of the Quiet Skies Coalition [...]

Look Forward to Change Dear Editor: At the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals meeting of April 16, the lawyer representing the developers of Harbor Heights gas station indicated that the project would be redesigned. This is good news. The earlier designs, which we opposed, significantly exceeded multiple requirements of the village code, and threatened [...]

This week, our friend Linley Whelan emailed us the photo below which inspired us to write in this space about a terrible phenomenon — and that is the truly bizarre and totally disgusting behavior of abandoning all sorts items on the beach — particularly at Long Beach where it seems to be a major issue. [...]

Michael J. Helstowski, a lifelong resident of Bridgehampton, died at Southampton Hospital on April 26. He was 49 years old. Mr. Helstowski was born in Southampton on July 29, 1963, the son of the late Raymond Helstowski and Margaret Harrington Dominski, who survives. Mr. Helstowski, a Pierson High School graduate, was a self-employed mechanic. “Michael [...]

Since 2009, the concept of concierge medicine in the Hamptons is most closely associated with the USA Network television show, “Royal Pains,” featuring a doctor who attends to the wealthy and glamorous, often on sprawling estates overlooking the ocean.

But concierge medicine is not just a fantasy on the East End, with at least one company – Executive VIP Medical Care – aimed at providing the personal level of medical services in the homes and offices of clients interested in the old fashioned house call.

If you ask anyone who knew Katy Stewart, chances are they’ll tell you about a girl whose courage, imagination and joie de vivre touched the lives of many in Sag Harbor and on the rest of the East End.

But this Friday, a group of young classical musicians are set to give back to the community some of the zest for life—and love of music—that Stewart brought to those around her.

These teenage prodigies from local schools will take the stage at Guild Hall for the fifth annual Classical Students for Katy’s Courage Fund benefit concert. The not-for-profit — which supports scholarships, counseling and pediatric cancer research — was created in honor of Stewart, who passed away from a rare form of liver cancer at the age of 12 in December of 2010.