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New initiatives and an increased focus at Town Hall on ordinance enforcement and reducing the quality-of-life problems that result from chronic violation of East Hampton’s codes appear to have had an impact in 2014.

Close to $1 million from East Hampton’s community preservation fund is to be allocated to restoration work at several historic sites this year, according to a draft budget that was the subject of a Jan. 15 town board hearing.

The property, formerly owned by Jerry Della Femina, the advertising executive, is entirely seaward of the coastal erosion hazard line, which triggers Federal Emergency Management Agency regulations.

East Hampton Town is moving to acquire, through eminent domain, disputed beachfront on Napeague.

The congregation of St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Amagansett voted unanimously on Sunday to become a Reconciled in Christ congregation, meaning it is publicly welcoming to all, including gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered people.

Prosecutors face difficulties when defendants decline to agree to give samples.

The hope of life returning to normal will have to wait another day, as schools throughout East Hampton and Southampton Towns have announced a second day of cancellations due to double-digit snowfall.

Driving in the Town of Southampton is illegal after 7 p.m. on Monday, according to a state of emergency order issued by Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst ahead of the blizzard the South Fork is expecting.

The townwide state of emergency will go into effect at 7 p.m. East Hampton Village and Town are also under states of emergency, effective at 4 p.m., but those declarations didn't go so far as to prohibit driving, though avoiding roads was recommended.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo issued a travel ban on all state and local roads throughout New York, including in Suffolk County, after 11 p.m. on Monday.

Classes in most schools throughout East Hampton have already been canceled for Tuesday.

An airport planning subcommittee recommends banning the noisiest helicopters from the airport and limiting other aircraft classified as among the noisiest to one trip per week all year round.

Licensed contractors whose trucks exceed a 12,000-pound gross vehicle weight limit could be exempt for 18 months from a new law designed to curb the parking of large commercial vehicles on residential lots, under a revised draft of the law.

The East Hampton Village and Town and Sag Harbor Police Departments named their “top cops” this week, in preparation for an annual Southampton Kiwanis Club event in Riverhead on Friday honoring the finest of the finest across the East End.

New York officials have issued a 10-year plan calling for greater efforts to preserve the state’s marine environment in the face of human impact, habitat degradation, and climate change.

Residents whose houses are on land leased from the East Hampton Town Trustees have criticizing a proposed increase in the annual fee of $1,500 per lot per year.

Business owners and their representatives spoke out against proposed amendments to East Hampton Village’s lighting code, enacted in 2004, at a hearing on Friday.

Under watch of the state attorney general, East Hampton and five other Suffolk school districts have agreed to implement new policies and procedures aimed at increasing communication between parents of English language learners and school officials.

A Mercedes-Benz sport utility vehicle struck two poles after the driver reportedly fell asleep behind the wheel on Sunday morning.

Business owners and their representatives spoke out against proposed amendments to the East Hampton Village lighting code during a hearing on Friday. Discussions will continue until early next month.

At their first meeting of 2015, East Hampton Town Trustees pondered whether to transfer the lease of a tenant at Lazy Point, Amagansett, whose house is threatened by erosion, as well as larger questions about Lazy Point leases.

Neighbors of a new house on Mill Hill Lane showed up at 2015’s first meeting of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals Friday to air some criticism of it.

Stony Brook University Hospital and Southampton Hospital are moving forward with long-awaited plans to merge.

The Breakwater Yacht Club, somewhat of an institution in the Village of Sag Harbor, may have to fight more than wind to keep its sails up.

Three schools to the west are dealing with threats on Thursday. While East Hampton police have been made aware of the situations in Southampton and Riverhead, Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo said there are no threats in East Hampton.

A long-awaited project to bolster much of the downtown Montauk shoreline could be completed in two phases. The United States Army Corps of Engineers is seeking the East Hampton Town Board’s views on which part of the job to tackle first.

A fire that broke out in a Springs house on Tuesday morning could have been much worse had an automatic fire alarm not gone off, fire officials said.

Over 1,000 PSEG Long Island customers in Amagansett lost power on Monday morning. Police received word of a possible transformer fire on Main Street just before 10:30 a.m.

A fire that started in a garbage can outside an attached garage quickly ripped through a Northwest Woods house on New Year’s Day, destroying it.

The scope of the work at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center had some worried.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell looks back on 2014 accomplishments and ahead to new goals.