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Six works attributed to Willem de Kooning by a former assistant were found in an abandoned storage unit in New Jersey and will be auctioned later this year.

East Hampton Town police are investigating the death of a woman who was pulled from the ocean water off Beach Lane in Wainscott Saturday afternoon.

The town board voted narrowly on Thursday night to grant an access and utility easement to Deepwater Wind, allowing the Rhode Island company to route a transmission cable from its proposed South Fork Wind Farm from the ocean beach in Wainscott to a Long Island Power Authority substation near Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton.

It appears that there will be at least one primary election for a seat on the East Hampton Town Board on Sept. 13.

Some 800 cyclists are expected to take part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons, which takes place on Saturday on roads across the South Fork.

A long-awaited effort to alleviate traffic by adding Long Island Rail Road service between Speonk and Montauk in the morning and afternoon is to begin late in the winter of 2019, officials confirmed on Tuesday.

The Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library's Long Island Collection

Havens Beach in Sag Harbor has been inadvertently transformed into an active archaeological site following last November’s dredging of a section of the bay off Long Wharf. Along with the pumped sand came musket balls, an oil lamp, shards of pottery and porcelain, and coins that date as far back as 1875.

In life, sometimes you win. And sometimes you lose.

The East Hampton Town Board is expected to narrowly vote in favor of granting an easement allowing Deepwater Wind to bury a transmission cable from its proposed South Fork Wind Farm on a path from Wainscott to a Long Island Power Authority substation off Cove Hollow Road in East Hampton.

Montauk advertises itself as “The End,” but it’s not literally at the end of the world although it felt that way recently for residents frustrated with their post office’s inability to deliver their packages and daily mail on time, if they could be located at all.

Members of the farming community were invited to a Sagaponack Village Board meeting on Monday to express their opinions on a proposed series of code changes to regulate deer fencing.

It takes a smart person to know his destiny when he gets a peek at it, and it takes an even bigger person to make the leap of faith once he does.

Lifeguards in East Hampton and Southampton Towns were alerted of two shark bites in Fire Island waters.

“You’re Holly Golightly on the outside, and Kafka on the inside,” Frederic said over the phone. “I’m a cockroach!” I hiccupped, tears streaming.

The Rev. Dr. William Barber, a minister and civil rights leader from North Carolina who is president of the nonprofit Repairers of the Breach, will be the guest of honor at a fund-raiser for that organization on Saturday in East Hampton.

$10.5 million in C.P.F. money approved for 1.25-acre park next to the bridge to North Haven.

The National Transportation Safety Board report issued on Tuesday points, as expected, to bad weather as a major factor in the June 2 crash off Amagansett that killed Ben and Bonnie Krupinski, their grandson, William Maerov, and their pilot, Jon Dollard.

When Ben and Bonnie Krupinski died in a plane crash last month, along with their grandson and the pilot, East Hampton mourned the passing of a couple who had been so generous to the community. Their sudden loss shocked employees at Mr. Krupinski’s many enterprises and they were determined to carry on his legacy.

As part of an effort to bring more business to East Hampton Village’s commercial district, the director of the East Hampton Chamber of Commerce had a plan for a weekly event. Officials refused to give him the go-ahead.

To accommodate demand, the East Hampton Town Trustees have added racks to store 40 kayaks at the end of Gerard Drive in Springs.

The East Hampton Library’s upcoming Authors Night fund-raiser, to be held next month on an Amagansett field bought by the town with community preservation fund money, dominated a meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee.

Joe Gaviola, a longtime member of the Montauk Historical Society, will be the new keeper of the Montauk Light, occupying the easternmost residence in New York.

Democrats on the South Fork will have to “fight in a way that we’ve never been asked to before” to elect Perry Gershon, the party’s candidate to represent New York’s First Congressional District, the actor Alec Baldwin said at an Easts Hampton fund-raiser on Sunday.

A survey probably isn’t needed, but if you ask just about any experienced fisherman in Montauk Harbor who is the king of rod-and-reel commercial fishing most are likely to agree that John Rade,is the one who wears the crown.

No doubt about it, it was hot and humid last week. Nobody needed to hear it formally from a weatherman, or from Capt. Obvious for that matter. Hot is just hot. Just poking your head outside the house was enough for many people, before tightly closing the door to stay cool in air-conditioned comfort.

The ongoing issue of litter was revisited in a slide presentation that depicted overflowing trash receptacles on East Hampton Village beaches.

Maureen Raymo, a paleoclimatologist and marine geologist, will discuss her research on climate change over earth’s history on Saturday at the Nature Conservancy’s Center for Conservation in East Hampton.

The Springs School will receive $1.33 million in New York State grant money to install a new nitrogen-reducing wastewater treatment system, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's office announced on Monday.

Part of the appeal of going out in your early 20s is that you never kneow where you’ll end up. You start at a bar, maybe, arrange yourself in line of the wind, and put your sails up.