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If you introduce yourself as a writer or an artist, people assume it’s not just a hobby, but your profession. Lots of people have sex, for example, but until you’ve gotten paid for it, you’d be lying if you answered “prostitute” next time someone asked, “What do you do?”

Forty-two intrepid stand-up paddlers, plus two on prone boards and five in kayaks, spanned 18 miles of the open ocean Saturday morning between the Montauk Lighthouse and Block Island’s New Harbor.

After a man was found in distress outside of his vehicle on Montauk Highway in Bridgehampton and officers noticed a potentially "hazardous situation in the victim's vehicle."

A State Supreme Court judge agreed with the East Hampton Town Republican Committee when she ruled on Friday that many of the signatures supporting David Gruber's candidacy on the Independence Party line were "replete with fraudulent dates and forged signatures."

Mary Frances McDonald Ecker, a well-known resident of Montauk who founded the hamlet’s food pantry, worked as a teacher’s aide, and led the Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day parade in 2009 as its grand marshal, died on Sunday at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center in Quiogue. She was 89 and had colon cancer.

With the Nov. 6 election for a seat on the East Hampton Town Board barely 10 weeks away, party officials are lobbing charges and countercharges of fraudulent nominating petitions.

The Suffolk County District Attorney was working this week to indict members of an alleged drug ring that had hundreds of buyers and moved “kilogram quantities of cocaine and thousands of pills” in the Montauk area during a months-long investigation by the D.A.’s East End Drug Task Force and other agencies.

An interfaith forum on morality will proceed as planned Monday night, but one of its invited guests, Representative Lee Zeldin, will not be there.

“We are going to win in November!” Perry Gershon told a lively gathering of East Hampton Democrats on Aug. 15 at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church. “Our time has come!” The Democratic Party is energized and united, he told the assembled, and “We are all in to see Lee Zeldin out.”

I was 6 when Victor, who was 11, offered to teach me how to bat. I stood behind him in Ibsen Court, where we lived, watching as instructed, as he swung through and all the way back to my eye. My brothers led me home as I cried, and I had to start first grade with a shiner.

Over the objections of East Hampton Town’s disabilities advisory board, a site plan for a new commercial building in Montauk that designates a separate, back-door entrance for disabled people was endorsed by the town planning board in a straw poll earlier this month.

A plan to reconstruct the roughly 1,000-foot-long rock revetment protecting the Montauk Lighthouse will ensure that the historic structure is still standing 100 years from now despite ongoing erosion and extreme weather events, the East Hampton Town Board was told on Tuesday.

The project, encompassing much of the hamlet south of East Hampton Airport, includes more than 500 residential properties and is the largest water main project undertaken by the water authority in almost 20 years.

Kenneth Bernard Faried Lewis, who was recently traded to the Brooklyn Nets, was arrested on Sunday night.

The East Hampton Town Trustees have closed Georgica Pond to the harvesting of crabs or any other marine life because of a bloom of blue-green algae in the pond's southwest corner.

This weekend is Ellen’s Run, a fund-raiser benefiting the Ellen Hermanson Foundation, which is credited with bringing new medical imaging technology to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Insisting that the Town of East Hampton, not to mention civilization itself, faces imminent climate chaos, four residents urged the town trustees on Monday night to look positively on the proposed South Fork Wind Farm.

Fifteen people were arrested in Montauk Wednesday in connection with an alleged narcotics distribution ring, Suffolk County District Attorney Timothy D. Sini's office announced Thursday morning. 

"The alleged conspiracy to sell narcotics involved several seasonal employees in local bars and restaurants who were receiving packages of illicit substances through the mail," a press release from the D.A.'s office said.

With the month of August has come a new face to East Hampton and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. The Rev. Leandra Lambert, ordained as a deacon in March, began serving as curate, or assistant, to the Rev. Denis Brunelle on Aug. 1.

Of the estimated 9 billion tons of plastic generated since 1950, some 6.3 billion tons exist in the form of plastic waste, a volume that has overwhelmed our waste management and infrastructure capabilities, with a result of about 8 million tons of plastic waste entering the oceans every year.

A Sagaponack resident’s application to install eight-foot-tall deer fencing along the perimeter of a nearly 34-acre agricultural reserve elicited vehement opposition at a village board meeting on Monday.

A man whose yacht was found discharging waste into Lake Montauk late last month is facing a number of charges brought by federal, state, and local authorities.

A small garage proposed on a 0.3-acre property may require “one variance too far,” the chairman of the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals said on Friday, after three neighbors complained about what they said was excessive coverage on the lot.

The Army Corps of Engineers has indicated that its Fire Island to Montauk Point Reformulation Plan, decades in the making, will provide significantly less sand to replenish Montauk’s downtown ocean beach than town officials had hoped.

The pizzeria, which celebrates its 35th anniversary in East Hampton this week, has survived and thrived not only on the strength of its popular pies — served 362 days a year — but on the amicability of its owners, John and Al Fierro.

On the one hand, being called a commodity, a thing to acquire or trade, is degrading, no matter how many camels you say you could get for me. On the other, I'm an old-fashioned girl still on the marriage market, brought up by Greek parents who've alerted me to the danger of letting my stock go down.

Despite difficult weather conditions, firefighters quickly extinguished a fire at a bayfront house in Amagansett on Saturday morning.

A 44-foot Meridian yacht sank after striking the west side of the Montauk jetty Thursday night, the Coast Guard said Friday.

After a consultant conducting hamlet studies for East Hampton Town delivered an update to the town board on Tuesday, the board decided that each hamlet should have its own public hearing, the first of which may be held as soon as next month.

An East Hampton Town ordinance inspector has been suspended for 30 days without pay after being charged with sexual abuse of a child under 13.