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As Election Day nears, endorsement announcements in the East Hampton Town race are beginning to trickle in.

First Coastal has been hired by the Sagaponack Village erosion control district to study the makeup, depth, and back-and-forth flow of sand.

The East Hampton Airport took center stage in the coming town election as the Democratic candidates for town board pledged not to take Federal Aviation Administration grants.

Ross School announced the addition of Mandarin Chinese as part of the lower-school curriculum.

The perception that domestic crimes are rare and occur primarily among those who have low incomes is a dangerous one.

Candidates argue about who did what and why

Montauk parish’s popular former priest makes good in Manchester, N.H.

A mammoth 2.26-pound quahog dug from the bottom of Napeague Harbor earned Edward F. Hoff Jr. top honors

The East Hampton Ghost House is back in the news, having finally been sold after eight years on the market.

The town board approved the $887,500 purchase last Thursday night following a hearing.

Forty-nine percent of last year’s third grade at John M. Marshall Elementary School did not pass the state’s English language arts test.

The Amagansett Fire District may be buying the old Pacific East space in Amagansett.

Theresa Quigley burst into tears while defending the East Hampton Town Board against accusations that it had ignored code violations.

Bonac-American red, white, and blue dory in Amagansett has been restored, thanks to an Eagle Scout and his grandfather.

A storm of outrage caused by the Long Island Power Authority’s struggle to get power restored.

At Tuesday night’s East Hampton School Board meeting an existential question sparked a lively and sometimes prickly debate.

An audit of the East Hampton Town Human Services Department has turned up numerous instances in which supervision and records were lacking.

Les Warner of Betham, Conn., is the self-appointed caretaker of the First House Cemetery

Local tree-care specialists have offered a few tips for protecting your property next time around.

Much sand gone, but Irene’s direct blow from the south was a blessing.

Potentially one of the busiest summer weekends was boarded up and shut down by the winds and flooding Irene brought.

Ditch Plain lost most of its remaining dunes, but the vulnerable “motel row” in Montauk’s downtown business district was spared even though the storm surge entered through the road ends.

Forewarned regarding Hurricane Irene, the Hampton Classic's horse show's executive director on Friday announced the cancellation of Opening Day, which was to have been Sunday, and resolved to restart the ordinarily-weeklong hunter-jumper show on Wednesday, Aug. 31.

Homeowners with property damage from the weekend's storm received good news this morning when the National Weather Service declared that Irene, when it hit here, was a tropical storm and not a hurricane. Insurance coverage for damage from hurricanes is typically subject to a high deductible.

Fallen trees, water damage seem to be the worst of it; power remains out for thousands on the East End

Irene's new predicted course is strikingly similar to that said to have been taken by the 1938 Hurricane, which killed an estimated 600 people.

Elsie Garretson and Camilla Jewett shared the distinct honor of turning 100 years old at a celebratory tea hosted by the Ladies Village Improvement Society.

    The question of how the East Hampton Airport will be managed in the future — and the role of the Federal Aviation Administration and East Hampton Town government there — may play a central part in this fall’s town elections.

    Members of the town’s disbanded airport noise abatement advisory committee are among those demanding that the town stop taking money from the Federal Aviation Administration for airport projects, which binds the town to follow federal strictures, and instead seek to enact restrictions of its own to reduce takeoff and landing noises.

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale sent shock waves across the East End and much of the East Coast.

Some 50 samples in Suffolk County have tested positive for mosquitoes carrying West Nile virus.