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Upgrades to bike lanes, shoulder repair, signs, parking limitations, and pavement markings are planned .

Fire departments from across Suffolk received invaluable experience from the April brush fires in Manorville and Ridge.

The East Hampton Town Trustees believe that the commercial use of town beaches should be prohibited.

A tight budget, with more revenue coming in than expected, and spending below what was anticipated, helped build surpluses.

The number of arrests rose significantly in 2011 in East Hampton Town, according to an annual report released by the East Hampton Town Police Department.

Log entry, April 15, 0800, entering the Gulf of Mexico

    Eagle’s crew at attention on the waist swaying in unison to the ship’s motion like wheat in the wind. Flying fish flee our wake, their silver sides flashing in the morning sun. They must be nature’s most hopeful creatures, the way they flee their natural element to escape, not unlike sailors.

    Yesterday, a 278-foot Coast Guard cutter passed us going the other way toward Key West with a number of Cuban refugees whom a smaller cutter had intercepted. They will be processed and flown back to Havana.

n order to stay under the state-mandated 2 percent property tax levy cap, $791,969 worth of cuts were made to existing programs

A basement foundation is triggering a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Planning Board for the Montauk Beach House.

The desire for emerald green, dandelion-free lawns is leading homeowners to pay for excessive applications of fertilizer.

An East Hampton Town justice issued a restraining order Thursday against a Jamaica, Queens, man who had spent the night of March 31 in the music mogul Sean Combs’s bluff-top vacation house.

    The question of what kinds of restrictions East Hampton Town may be allowed to place on the use of its airport in an effort to control noise turns largely on whether the town seeks to restrict jets and seaplanes or focuses access restrictions on helicopters.

After weeks of contention over a proposed sale of a piece of town alleyway that bisects the old Ronjo motel property in Montauk, East Hampton Town will get its own appraisal of the value of the land.

Richard Burns smiled broadly, accepting a standing ovation from the East Hampton School Board and the audience in the high school auditorium on Tuesday night as the board announced that his position as interim superintendent would now become permanent.

A new pond and pump house proposed at the Maidstone Club, plus a new irrigation system, have some wondering about impacts on Hook Pond.

The Surf Lodge’s legal troubles may be ending as a new summer season approaches.

Fred Doss of Bridgehampton has been associated with buildOn, a nonprofit group that teams students in the United States with global school construction projects, since 2001.

Vacant stores will be required to put a display in the window if a new law in East Hampton Village is passed.

Parking, the concerns of the East Hampton Town and Village Disabilities Advisory Board, and the health of the groundwater were all discussed at the East Hampton Village Board work session.

Opposition to a passenger ferry, proposed to operate between Greenport and Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, was heard Tuesday night at a public hearing to amend a Sag Harbor Village law prohibiting such use.

A seemingly innocuous sale of 3,700 square feet of a town-owned Montauk alley that for decades has been surrounded by the grounds of the old Ronjo motel in Montauk has turned into a thorny morass raising hackles all around.

It was a roundabout route that would set one New Yorker down in the hamlet she came to love.

Decisions were emotionally charged for both the board and the community.

Controversy continued this week over the proposed sale of a piece of an East Hampton Town alley.

Cuts came from restructuring or streamlining programs and departments

Ditch Witch stays, Dune Doggie bows out

The addition would be in violate of the town’s pyramid law

The highly infectious bacterial disease has made an appearance at the East Hampton Middle School

The Surf Lodge, Montauk’s trendy summertime playground for adults, is for sale, according to records of a closed-door conference on the town’s ongoing case against the company.

Descendants pitch a historical institute

As work progresses, some complain of asthma-like symptoms, legislator says