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Mike Russell, 22, a former East Hampton High School star athlete was arrested in Worcester, Mass., early Monday after allegedly taking part in a home invasion.

Man charged with assault on a police officer

A large group of parents of preschoolers urged the Montauk School Board on Tuesday to pierce the state-imposed 2-percent cap on tax levy increases rather than increase the class-size policy

After months of speculation about his absence, Charles Soriano, the principal of East Hampton Middle School, finally returned to work on Monday morning.

With about 320 miles of road in the town highway system, maintenance is a constant item on East Hampton Town Highway Superintendent Steve Lynch’s to-do list.

Village’s Galeano and town’s Giles are lauded for work on sex abuse cases.

The owners of The Montauk Brewing Company want to make its signiture Driftwood Ale on site and are hoping to have the brewery running in time for the hectic summer season.

After three years of discussion the Harbor Heights service station’s application for demolition and large-scale expansion finally came before the village’s Zoning Board of Appeals.

Biting wind, weak sun on a waterfowl-counting Saturday

Taxi company owners turned out last Thursday to tell the East Hampton Town Board that proposed changes to taxi licensing regulations would negatively impact them.

With the release of money for Hurricane Sandy recovery, the committee will focus on emergency permits for restoration work on the Ditch Plain and downtown Montauk beaches.

Affordable housing in East Hampton Village got a small but important boost on Friday.

Plans are in the works for a second car wash in Amagansett, just a few hundred yards west of one operated by V&V Auto.

Charles Soriano, the principal of East Hampton Middle School, has said in a message to the school community that his return to his post will be delayed.

Jack Perna, the superintendent of the Montauk School, has been chosen to be the grand marshal of the 2013 Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day parade.

Two waterfront properties on Lake Montauk and one on Gardiner’s Bay were front and center.

“She took a company that has been around since 1902 and nearly bankrupted them.”

East Hampton Town Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc suggested Tuesday that the town remove the Fort Pond House property in Montauk from the market.

The outlook for Montauk’s threatened oceanfront improved Monday with the passage in the House of Representatives of $50.7 billion in Hurricane Sandy aid.

According to East Hampton Town police, the apparent explosives have been set off in a number of areas.

A dead female finback whale, estimated to weigh about 58 tons, was beached on Napeague on Sunday, the same day that a young male pygmy sperm whale washed up, still breathing, about three miles down the beach in Amagansett.

The project to rebuild a bridge at Pussy’s Pond in Springs is nearly complete, and a celebration of the years-long effort to replace the previous bridge has been scheduled for Jan. 27 at Ashawagh Hall.

Tropical it’s not. Offshore fishing trips in winter are not for the faint of heart.

The resumption of last summer’s trial run of the Hampton Jitney’s passenger ferry between Greenport and Sag Harbor appears in doubt.

    The familiar sight of Ford Crown Victoria police cars patrolling both the town and the village will soon be a memory. The venerable “Crown Vic” is being retired, to be replaced by the Ford Interceptor. East Hampton Town police may roll out the first one within the week.

Detective Tina Giles will be honored by the East Hampton Town police as officer of the year after leading an investigation that resulted in the arrest of a man alleged to be a repeat sexual abuser of children.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board returned for business last night with the same members as in 2012.

Facing $400,000 in repairs at two beaches, village will seek FEMA assistance

There are still tremendous needs in the wake of an event that did not just happen, but “is still happening.”

Korean tradition draws nearly 1,000 to Montauk Point in predawn hours.