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Route 27 in East Hampton Village was closed Saturday afternoon as police investigated an accident in which a girl was struck and fatally injured while riding a bicycle. Hampton Pix

Guards tell town it’s not the ’80s anymore
Durell Godfrey

Company wants rights to ‘Ditch Plains’ name
Jessica Mavro, an employee at Montauk Clothing Co., showed off one of its many “Ditch Plains” T-shirts. Angie Duke

An expedition to Greenland to recover bodies from a World War II crash site
In 1992, Lou Sapienza was the expedition photographer on a mission to recover the P-38 fighter plane Glacier Girl, which went down during World War II, from deep in the ice of Greenland. Lou Sapienza

Eight candidates weigh in on police and waterfront
Mayor Brian Gilbride, left, will try to keep his seat in Tuesday’s election. He is being opposed by, left to right, Pierce Hance, Bruce Tait, and Sandra Schroeder.

Houses on the low end of the market, like this one in Southampton offered for $289,000, can be found but usually need a lot of work.

The town will add sand to a portion of the Ditch Plain beach in Montauk, where erosion has exposed hardpan and rocks, so that it can be used by bathers this summer. Hampton Pix


Rebuilding downtown Montauk’s shorefront is targeted to take place next year
The federal government will pay to plan and design a rebuilt Montauk beach. Hampton Pix

To John Marshall from a Brooklyn charter school