Bob Persan runs Henry Persan & Sons Hardware, and has worked in the family business for more than 40 years. He spoke about the blizzard, and gave advice on snow preparedness.

For the past year, the John Drew Theater Lab at Guild Hall has been a place where playwrights and performing artists can come to develop new work. The theater’s artistic director, Josh Gladstone, and the JDTLab provide support, space and, perhaps most importantly, an audience for creative collaborators to further their vision. Next up at the JDTLab on Tuesday will be a reading of “Honor Killing,” a new play by Sarah Bierstock that delves into the abuse of women halfway around the world while also taking a hard look at gender politics in the United States.

  Outdoors SAT JAN 31 Backpack Adventure at Long Pond, 10 a.m., for children ages 5 to 7, the South Fork Natural History Museum, 377 Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, $2 materials fee. (631) 537-9735 or sofo.org. Stony Hill Preserve, 10 a.m., East Hampton Trails Preservation Society, Meet at the south side of Red Dirt Rd [...]

  ANNOUNCEMENTS   ADOPTION   ADOPTION: Unplanned Pregnancy? Caring licensed adoption agency provides financial and emotional support. Choose from loving pre-approved families. Call Joy toll free 1-866-922-3678 or confidential email:[email protected].   A CHILDLESS YOUNG MARRIED COUPLE (she-30/he-37) seeks to adopt. Will be hands-on mom/devoted dad. Financial security. Expenses paid. Call/text. Mary & Adam. 1-800-790-5260.   [...]

By Danny Peary Until she recently won Golden Globe as the Best Actress in a Drama Series for Showtime’s “The Affair,” Ruth Wilson was known best in the US for her TV work at home in England: “Suburban Shootout,” “Jane Eyre,” and as Alice Morgan opposite Idris Elba in “Luther.”  That didn’t change despite her [...]

Local chef George Hirsch is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his popular public television program, “Living It Up” with a new WLIW series featuring some of the East End’s brightest culinary artisans.

Just days before the East Hampton Board is scheduled to hear the results of the third and final phase of the airport noise study, the Friends of the East Hampton Airport Coalition filed two targeted legal complaints in order to “protect safety and equal access to the airport.”

Kiley DeMarco and Anastasia Gavalas came from totally different perspectives when they met a couple summers back at an event at Wolffer Estate in Sagaponack. Ms. DeMarco was behind the web site onehealthyhamptons.com, where she writes about wellness on the East End. Ms. Gavalas was an author and busy mother of five.
“We just hit it off,” said Ms. DeMarco, “and started brainstorming ideas of working together.”
Ms. Gavalas’s book, “Wing It”, is about staying sane in the madness of parenthood. She also started the Wing It foundation, which helps fund global and local education initiatives. The women were supportive of one another’s work, and wanted to figure out a way that they could bring the backgrounds of wellness and family together to create a healthier community.
“We like different things,” said Ms. Gavalas. “How we relax, fitness, eating. We have different lifestyles but we both want balance.”
They were both tired of spending lots of money trying to find a wellness regime that worked, often without success. They thought about how in the winter, there are so many wellness businesses struggling to stay on people’s radar.
“We wanted to find a way,” said Ms. DeMarco, “to allow locals to try fitness classes for free or for less to empower themselves to be healthier.”
That’s how Hamptons Wellness Week was born.

By Claire Walla Lisa Field was manning the register at the back of the Sag Harbor Variety Store one recent Thursday afternoon when an old man, awkwardly holding a small piece of insulated fabric, approached the counter. “Do you have any Velcro?” the man asked skeptically. Without missing a beat, Field reached over to a [...]

Officer Nick Samot, a five-year Sag Harbor Village police veteran, was honored as the department’s Officer of the Year by the Southampton Kiwanis Club at an event at the Long Island Aquarium and Recreation Center in Riverhead on Friday.

The Bridgehampton School District appears to be in “much better financial shape this year than last year, according to business administrator Robert Hauser, as the school board on Thursday, January 29, took its first look at a preliminary $12.6 million budget for the 2015-16 school year.

After his first game as an eighth grader, no one could have predicted the player Josh Lamison would become.

Though the New York Islanders will soon abandon Nassau Coliseum in favor of the Barclays Center in hipster Brooklyn, in the 1970s the team grew to be a hockey powerhouse and the pride of Long Island, culminating with the Islanders first Stanley Cup win in 1979-80. That same year the unsung US Olympic hockey team bested the USSR in a legendary Cold War match up. And in the Long Island suburb of East Northport, a group of boys was paying close attention … and they were inspired.

    by Helen A. Harrison   You might think that we already know all there is to know about Jackson Pollock’s life and work, but you’d be wrong. For example, before Pollock’s 1943 mural arrived at Getty Conservation Institute in Los Angeles, it had acquired a coating of varnish, as well as a heavy [...]