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Over the drone of an outboard motor, Kelly Lester of Amagansett half shouted, “I’d like to prove that Paul and I did nothing wrong.”

An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale centered near Mineral, Va., 83 miles southwest of Washington D.C., at 1:51 p.m. was sent shock waves across the East End this afternoon.

Danny Lopez looks a little young to be the consul general of the New York City-based British Consulate.

Health Department looks for contaminants by popular Lake Montauk beach at Town Supervisor Bill Wilkinsons request.

Opponents say rock armor requested on bluff lot is ‘illegal’ under town law.

Sailor en route from Massachusetts to Brooklyn in a 13-foot-long Sunfish more commonly used for short day trips.

The East Hampton Town Board aims to close a loophole in town law to alleviate the stress on Montauk.

Supporters of the 50-year-old riding academy are urging East Hampton Town to help purchase the development rights.

East Hampton Democrats are struggling with campaign support, while the Republicans are deep in the black.

Nina Katchadourian is a visual artist and sometime musician from Brooklyn whose sarcastic YouTube video about the Hampton Jitney is well on the road to viral this week, having received 11,802 hits on Monday alone.

An Aug. 13 and 14 rock festival planned for East Hampton that had alarmed residents and sparked legal action will not be held after all.

On Thursday, for the second time in five days, the dive charter boat John Jack returned to Montauk with the body of a diver who died while on a shipwreck exploration cruise.

Dozens of people lined the dunes to watch as the body of the sperm whale calf was carried over the rocks and down the beach at Ditch Plain in Montauk

A yearling sperm whale calf that was found stranded on the rocks in Montauk Saturday was not expected to survive.

    Martin Drew, a local resident who has been pressing East Hampton Town for years to allow all-terrain vehicles on public trails and to establish A.T.V. and motocross bicycle tracks, had his say before the town board on Tuesday.

    Announcing that he was now the head of a group called Long Island Sports, he said he might drop the quest to expand where motorized “off-highway vehicles” are permitted to focus solely on a site for motorized bicycle sports. Trails are now limited to walkers and bicyclists.

The teenagers attending the Rena’s Promise creative writing camp were Surrounded by other camp groups playing sports, swimming, and doing arts and crafts on a hot day at the Quinipet Camp and Retreat Center

Since David Hartstein died last month, friends have been working to raise money for his widow and three children. More than 20 local restaurants and chefs, will offer “a taste of Montauk and the Hamptons” in a benefit Friday night at Solé East in Montauk.

A full-time volunteer, Alison Thompson spends her time traveling between New York, Haiti, Miami, and Sri Lanka.

   To reiterate an observation made on this page last week, East Hampton Town is sorely in need of more beach parking. This is no secret; residents know all too well how crowded it gets. You can forget about finding a parking space at any of the ocean lots if you arrive later than noon on a sunny Saturday or Sunday. On the busiest days, police have set up traffic barricades at Ditch Plain in Montauk and turned vehicles away at Atlantic Avenue, Amagansett. Chaos is the result and understandable frustration the lingering sentiment among residents and visitors.

A fire Tuesday night at a Further Lane, Amagansett, house owned by the art dealer Larry Gagosian left a kitchen, media room, and upstairs bedroom badly damaged.

A Sagaponack farm owned by the Schwenk family was the scene of a fire Sunday afternoon.

Traffic was brought to a standstill Friday afternoon on Montauk Highway on Napeague after a garbage truck suffered a mechanical problem and flipped onto its side.

Members of the Amagansett Beach Safety Advisory Committee, which was formed last year after a drowning at an unprotected beach in that hamlet, discussed their efforts at a recent East Hampton Town Board meeting.

Divers had been searching area near where a man's headless body was discovered in May

The Town of East Hampton ended last year with at least $5.9 million in surplus from the 2010 budget, the town supervisor, Bill Wilkinson, announced in a press release last week.

With a cloud-filled sky giving way to rain, East Hampton veterans, boy and girl scouts, and members of several fire departments and ambulance companies marched Monday to mark Memorial Day.

No break yet in hunt to learn whose remains were found on Gardiner's Bay beach on May 21.

A storm of protest blew up last week when people got wind that the Ditch Witch, a food wagon run by Lili Adams at Ditch Plain beach in Montauk, was not the winning bidder for a concession.

As fish numbers decline, ‘quiet trend’ raises concerns up and down coast.

The Federal Aviation Administration cleared the way for the MTK: Music to Know festival to be held at East Hampton Airport in August, notifying town officials on Tuesday that ...