Last Thursday morning, a 26-year-old East Hampton woman in a 2021 Toyota was at a stop sign at Stephen Hand’s Path and Cedar Street, but didn’t see another car coming, she told police.

Early on Feb. 12, Peter Vaziri of East Hampton was westbound in a black 2018 Mazda on Montauk Highway near Bunker Hill Road in Amagansett, when, town police said, he crossed the shoulder and hit a fence.

East Hampton Village homeowners who rent out their houses for 120 days or less annually will benefit from an amendment to the village code, unanimously adopted by the village board on Friday, that will allow them to collect the rental fees in one lump sum, meaning that they will no longer have to worry about tenants who attempt to terminate a rental early, or those who don’t make payments.

Trenching and vegetation removal has begun along a debated cable route.

There is a new candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to represent New York’s First Congressional District, a consequence of the recent redrawing of the state’s Congressional districts that followed the decennial census.

Jackie Gordon, a United States Army veteran and teacher, had been a candidate for the Democrats’ nomination to represent New York’s Second District this year. She ran unsuccessfully in the Second District in 2020, losing to the Republican candidate, Andrew Garbarino, by seven percentage points.