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As the demonstrators of Occupy Wall Street braved the record cold this weekend, Occupy the Hamptons relocated its general assembly to a hallway in the Long Wharf shops in Sag Harbor

In the final days leading up to the election, the East Hampton Town Republican Committee and its top candidates had more than three times the amount to spend as the East Hampton Democrats

The candidates for East Hampton Town Supervisor met at The East Hampton Star last Thursday to discuss their platforms

On Oct. 26, East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana dismissed all charges against an Amagansett brother and sister who make their living on the bay.

The East Hampton Library announced a donation of $250,000 from the Alec Baldwin Foundation to assist in the construction of the library’s expanded children’s wing.

The current board of nine East Hampton Town Trustees has faced serious threats to its autonomy from both nature and residents of oceanfront property

During the first week of an emergency dredging of the Montauk Harbor Inlet, a number of boats struck the 12-inch diameter pipe that transports sand from the dredge.

Republicans make campaign fodder of a Sept. 30 letter from the Office of the State Comptroller.

Stephen Grossman is taking on Republican incumbent East Hampton Town Justice, Lisa R. Rana, running on the Democratic party line, and offering a decidedly different vision of how the court system should be structured.

Local politicians and some from farther west played to a packed house at the Montauk Fire Department on Sunday at the Concerned Citizens of Montauk’s meet-the-candidates forum.

East Hampton voters have a choice among six candidates for two town board seats when they go to the polls in a week and a half.

Several rounds of cutting are reflected in East Hampton Town’s tentative budget for 2012

Test scores for the East Hampton Middle School were higher than New York State’s scores, and generally in line with or above other local districts.

Six candidates for East Hampton Town Board met with The East Hampton Star’s editorial staff last Thursday.

Members of East Hampton Town’s Civil Service Employees Association union are to vote today on ratification of a proposed contract with the town

If tears could put out a fire, the Amagansett Presbyterian Church’s Scoville Hall on Meeting House Lane would still be standing.

Suffolk County Legislator candidates, Republican Cornelius Kelly and incumbent Democrat and Independence Party member Jay Schneiderman, took the stage on Monday night.

The old Bulova building on Hampton Street in Sag Harbor has seen better days, and lots of them. But the aged edifice is about to get a new lease on life.

The Republican incumbent supervisor, Bill Wilkinson, and his Democratic opponent, Zachary Cohen, crossed swords over a number of issues.

Conservators’ financial support could be key to Democrats as election nears.

In East Hampton Village, and other nearby towns and villages, bamboo is often considered an invasive species and a noxious weed.

A longstanding debate about whether East Hampton Town should accept F.A.A. grants for its airport got an infusion of information on Tuesday.

The current lease will see the theater through its 2012 season next summer, but after that the organization will be searching for a new spot.

    Four days before voters in the Amagansett Fire District approved the $2.8 million purchase of a two-acre parcel next door to the firehouse, the site of the former Pacific East restaurant, some residents learned that it had been sold by court order in May for $500,000.

The town board’s perceived wishy-washy response to calls for its commitment to public beach access is causing concern and stirring the pre-election political pot.

Richard Haeg, who is running on the Republican and Conservative tickets for East Hampton Town Board, is a man of interesting parts.

A long saga of legal challenges to a 1998 East Hampton Town law barring most ferries from docking here came to a close this week with a United States Supreme Court decision.

A 2012 East Hampton Town budget calls for a slight increase in spending of 2 percent, but would result in a tax decrease for residents.

All the ducks are lined up for the much needed and long delayed dredging of Three Mile Harbor.

Ted Dragon, who was born Edward Dragon Young but dropped his last name as a young man, died at home on in East Hampton on Sunday. He had been the longtime companion of the artist Alfonso Ossorio.