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Georgica Pond will only be brought back to health through new approaches to waste management, landscaping practices, and road runoff.

A study of East Hampton Town’s nonresidential properties, designed to help develop long-range plans for each of the town’s hamlets, will get underway in mid-March by a Massachusetts firm hired to coordinate the work.

Steven A. Cohen's offending structure is a six-foot-tall chain link fence with a cedar facade. It was built without site plan approval.

The distribution of all of nature’s living things, including mosquitoes, is in flux.

A divided East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals decided Friday that a property owner on Georgica Pond may not plant a rose garden within the required 125-foot wetlands setback.

A Springs man who crashed a 2007 Saab into the woods off Old Stone Highway in Amagansett on Monday morning had to be given the life-saving drug.

Southampton Town is taking on Uber, but unlike the Town of East Hampton, which adopted regulations last summer that made it nearly impossible for drivers with the nationwide ride-sharing service to operate here.

A spike in drug-related incidents at East Hampton High School this year has spurred officials to organize two forums on the dangers of drugs and addiction.

Hector O. Duarte-Roque, 44, of Hampton Bays was run over by a piece of machinery being used to move material in front of the Montauk Lake Club and Marina on Thursday morning.

East Hampton, with the gym in an uproar from the opening tip, prevailed 75-68 to set up a showdown Friday with top-seeded Harborfields for the county Class A championship.

The trial of Thomas Gilbert Jr. of Wainscott and Manhattan, charged with homicide in the Beekman Place murder last January of his financier father, moved a step closer on Wednesday.

A passer-by saw smoke in the vicinity of the car repair shop on Noyac Road Wednesday afternoon, and Sag Harbor firefighters found smoke pouring from the eaves of a neighboring house.

A car crashed into the woods off of Old Stone Highway in Amagansett on Monday moning, sending the driver to the hospital.

Citing the damages already done to the beach in Montauk, Defend H20 withdrew its lawsuit over the Army Corps of Engineers's sandbag seawall project this week.

Two Democrats hoping to run for the House of Representatives in November articulated nearly identical views on First Congressional District, national, and international issues at a forum hosted by East Hampton Democrats.

Since October, Compass, a real estate brokerage firm headquartered in Manhattan, has opened four South Fork offices — an aggressive expansion that rivals the company’s recent growth in other markets.

East Hampton’s budget workshop on Tuesday was the first of the 2016-17 process. The administration has not yet released a complete draft of next year’s budget nor announced any specific dollar decisions.

There is another new nature book in town. This time the town is the Village of Sag Harbor and the nature in the book is Sag Harbor’s birds in photographs, poetry, prose, and other jits and jots.

The Sag Harbor Village Board took a break from proposed code revisions Tuesday night and instead discussed snow clearing and a law that would set appropriate times for leaf blowers and construction work.

Members of the Shinnecock Indian Nation voted last weekend to pursue growing medical marijuana and open processing and dispensary facilities for patients on their Southampton reservation.

A small residential greenhouse at Lazy Point in Amagansett was destroyed in a blaze that the shed it was attached also caught fire late Thursday morning.

A high tide during Monday’s snowstorm caused floodwaters from Gardiner’s Bay and Accabonac Harbor to inundate Gerard Drive in Springs and also caused flooding along Napeague Meadow Road on Napeague, where the water was two feet deep in places.

Two waterfront property owners received variances to replace existing houses at Tuesday’s session of the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals. One is at the Ditch Plain condominium complex in Montauk, the other in the Georgica Association in Wainscott.

The East Hampton and Bridgehampton High School boys basketball teams won league titles in games played Tuesday night.

East Hampton Town police are asking for the public's help in identifying a man they say stole a wallet and a cellphone at the Speedway gas station on Montauk Highway in Wainscott last month.

A fire broke out at a historic house known as Rowdy Hall, on Egypt Lane in East Hampton Village on Monday afternoon after 2 p.m.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for eastern Long Island in advance of a storm that could bring up to 10 inches of snow to the region on Monday.

A site plan submission from the owners of Cyril’s Fish House, who are trying to legalize numerous additions made to the property since 1984, received a frosty reception from the East Hampton Town Planning Board on Jan. 27.

A group of Napeague residents who have been fighting against beach driving on the shore near their neighborhood and the summertime gathering of vehicles at what has become known as Truck Beach stepped up its campaign this week with the release on its website, safebeach.org, of a video showing the area clogged with cars.

It may be the most unusual winter I’ve witnessed here in my 63 years of residence on both forks.