Julie Lofstad has won a seat on the Southampton Town Board in a special election held Tuesday, giving Supervisor Jay Schneiderman the Democratic majority on the board.
The blizzard may have kept a lot of people inside, but emergency personnel, many of them volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians, didn't have the luxury of hunkering down.
Schools across the South Fork will have delayed openings on Monday due to the impact of this weekend's snowfall.
The East Hampton, Amagansett, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, Wainscott, Sagaponack, Montauk, Springs, and Southampton School Districts...
In a move that could further East Hampton Town’s commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, a study is under way on the feasibility of creating a local energy network that would generate power here for critical facilities and have the ability to separate from the electrical grid in the event of power outages.
Stuart Vorpahl Jr., a fisherman, historian, former town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and a descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families, died last Thursday at Southampton Hospital.
A unanimous East Hampton School Board awarded tenure on Tuesday night to its elementary school principal, Beth Doyle, who is in her third year as principal at John M. Marshall Elementary School.
Russell Drumm, a senior writer for The East Hampton Star, who for 33 years wrote about commercial and recreational fishing among a range of subjects large and small, died on Saturday at Southampton Hospital of cancer.
Sean Ludwick, the New York real estate developer accused of vehicular homicide in the death of a Noyac man last summer, reportedly tried to buy a large boat to flee the country.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have called it a "world house," according to the Rev. Walter Silva Thompson, the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, where a diverse cross section of people from Southampton to Montauk came together to honor Dr. King's legacy.
