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"I just love Bridgehampton." This is a phrase no one who knows Willie Jenkins would be surprised to hear him say.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ harbor management committee will host officials from Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company planning to construct a 15-turbine wind farm approximately 30 miles from Montauk, when it meets on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Blowfish go by several names — bottlefish, blow toads, northern puffer, sea squab, puffers, chicken of the sea, and a few other local monikers. No matter what you decide to call them, they are one of our oddest-looking fish, as well as one of our tastiest and most affordable.

Two Montauk restaurants that are allegedly transformed into nightclubs after dinner hours are feeling the heat this week, with East Hampton Town officials going to the State Supreme Court for injunctions to force them to operate according to the zoning code, which allows them to be restaurants only, and to limit the size of their crowds.

SagTown Coffee reopened on Main Street this week, bigger and better than before the fire that destroyed it and several other businesses, including the Sag Harbor Cinema, nearly eight months ago.

Beginning in 2018, installation of advanced technology septic systems that treat waste for nitrogen will be required in East Hampton Town for new buildings, according to a law passed Tuesday by the town board.

On Tuesday, Laser Industries, an excavation and clearing company brought on board by the Springs School District’s architect, BBS Architects and Engineers, began excavating leaching pools near the back of the school to determine the state of its beleaguered septic system.

Two men charged with felony drunken driving were arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Saturday morning.

President Trump was repeatedly scorned by a full house at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Tuesday as the first Hamptons Institute discussion of 2017 focused on climate change and how to combat it.

No trial for Steven Mezynieski.

Sean Ludwick, who was charged with vehicular homicide for the August 2015 crash in Noyac that killed his passenger, Paul Hansen, 53, will plead guilty on Aug. 15 to that and many of the other charges he faces, prosecution and defense attorneys said Tuesday.

Tinder was kicked out of one house in Montauk this summer after throwing raucous parties, now it has been suggested to be responsible for doing some kicking out of its own.

The Grey Lady, a Montauk harborside restaurant that has been cited several times this summer for overcrowding, is under court order to limit the number of people it admits and to stop operating as a nightclub in violation of East Hampton zoning rules.

A mosquito collected in East Hampton on July 26 has tested positive for West Nile virus, Suffolk County health officials announced on Friday.

Detectives are investigating what happened on Hayground Road, near Windmill Lane, on Friday, July 28.

The disconnect between the science of and policy on climate change in the United States, particularly in the Trump era, will be the subject of a Hamptons Institute panel talk Tuesday at Guild Hall.

An informational forum on deer hosted by the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton last Thursday largely focused on ticks and the pathogens they carry, though one presenter emphasized the impact of deer on forests and what he said was their destruction of other animals’ habitat.

A persistent, hard northeast wind at the end of July is not all that common.

A new collaboration between the East End Classic Boat Society and the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter aims to teach kids valuable skills that might even open doors for future careers.

Police officers shouldering semiautomatic weapons greeted attendees at various events in Southampton Town recently, including the Children’s Museum of the East End’s annual family fair and Super Saturday.

The Springs School Board has decided to tear up the asphalt covering a play area in order to assess a septic system problem.

Southampton Town police announced today the arrests of two men last Thursday on multiple felony charges related to the alleged dealing of heroin.

A noise complaint from a resident of Buell Lane in East Hampton Village shortly before midnight on Saturday drew police to 27 Edwards Lane, where they said they found over 50 young partiers in the backyard.

Jordan’s Run, a 5K run-walk in Sag Harbor honoring that village’s heroic Marine, Jordan C. Haerter, has, after taking some tentative steps in 2016, grown by leaps and bounds.

Days after a pondfront property owner successfully lobbied the East Hampton Town Trustees to allow increased testing of Wainscott Pond, sampling conducted by researchers from the Stony Brook University confirmed a bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, there.

Detectives are investigating what caused the one-car crash on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, near Woodbine Drive.

East Hampton officials moved Wednesday to shut down a Montauk oceanfront residence used as a party spot for the app-based dating site Tinder, authorizing the town attorney to seek an injunction against using the house as hook-up central.

“Technology is the engine of innovation and job creation today,” said Christina Lewis Halpern, the founder and executive director of All Star Code, an organization that helps African-American and Latino boys learn about computer science and coding, in anticipation of its fourth annual benefit on Saturday at the Lewis residence in East Hampton.

A plea to the East Hampton Town Trustees to allow expanded research of Wainscott Pond in order to develop remedies for its degraded water quality was approved at a meeting on Monday.

“Are these art?” asked more than one visitor to a recently vacated gallery space in Amagansett. No, they're Budnitz bicycles.