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Sag Harbor’s Main Street, which has been the site of ongoing real estate drama — including the fall and impending rise of the village’s cinema, the passing of the Conca D’Oro pizza parlor, and a rash of construction projects — has yet another issue to contend with: a near half-acre of commercial and residential property between Main and Division Streets has been listed for sale for just shy of $12 million.

Northeasters in the latter half of the winter caused “some significant damage to the bluff trail” at Shadmoor State Park in Montauk, an official with East Hampton Town’s Land Management Department told the town board on Tuesday.

“At this point, I think I am the only Ph.D. scientist of any kind” in Congress, Representative Bill Foster of Illinois told Public Radio International in January. “We have some political scientists, I think a mathematician, but it feels sort of lonely.”

A plan for a 900,000-gallon water reservoir off Cross Highway in the Devon area of Amagansett has drawn the ire of several residents. The Suffolk County Water Authority was to have held a meeting at the Amagansett Library last night to discuss the plan.

Luis Marin-Castro, a 31-year-old man who was born in Ecuador and has lived in East Hampton for about 20 years, was arrested on Monday morning by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers outside Wainscott Main Wine and Spirits, where he was employed.

The Hampton Hopper, the free shuttle bus that served more than 20,000 riders in Montauk last summer, will return this summer to move visitors and residents around the hamlet.

Ill will and accusations of manipulation among members of the East Hampton Town Democratic Committee have led the committee to ask the Suffolk County Democratic Committee’s legal department to review the town committee’s conduct.

As East Hampton Village continued to refine the language of a proposed law governing special events, proponents and critics of the measure voiced their concerns at a trustee meeting last Thursday.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management is calling for information and nominations from companies interested in commercial wind energy leases within a proposed area in the New York Bight, an area of shallow waters between Long Island and the New Jersey coast.

A forum hosted by the East Hampton Group for Good Government drew an overflow crowd to the East Hampton Library, where proponents and opponents of Deepwater Wind’s proposed South Fork Wind Farm were unable to agree on pertinent facts and largely unwilling to countenance rival viewpoints.

Sag Harbor firefighters are on the scene Tuesday night of a fire in the Main Street building that houses Lulu Kitchen and Bar.

Kate Browning and Lee Zeldin each received endorsement from political groups with low enrollment in the First Congressional District.

Aaron Bruno, 29, “died doing what he loved,” his mother said. “Fish, fish, fish. That’s all he wanted to do. . . . He was born with a fishing pole in his hand.”

The East Hampton Town Planning Board held a public hearing on March 28 on a site plan that would allow AT&T to place cellphone antenna panels on a World War II-era fire-control tower at the Montauk Lighthouse.

The owners of Gurney’s Montauk Resort and Seawater Spa have approved a plan to buy out the inn’s timeshare owners and take full control of the property.

Anger and frustration boiled over last week in a heated public meeting on a proposal to lower recreational black sea bass limits in New York waters for the 2018 fishing season.

Women are givers, said Debra Boulanger, who runs a life-coaching service that offers women the chance for personal and professional reinvention.

A proposed Sagaponack subdivision on the south side of Montauk Highway has drawn the ire of the East Hampton Town Planning Board.

I-Tri, which promotes leadership and life skills for girls, is looking for women who have achieved success in their adult lives to volunteer as speakers and mentors.

Commercial fishermen and their supporters railed at a 15-turbine project they fear would make fertile fishing grounds off limits.

The East Hampton Town Board will move to create a water supply district in Wainscott to address concerns over contamination in an area near the East Hampton Airport, where perfluorinated compounds have been found in several residential wells.

Rose Brown, a member of the East Hampton Village design review board and the former chairwoman of the planning board, has declared her intention to run for one of the two village board seats up for a vote in the June 19 election.

Brendon Henry is the youngest of six candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in New York’s First Congressional District.

In less than six weeks, on May 15, voters in school districts across the state will head to the polls to cast their ballots on next year’s budgets and board member elections.

The email I received last Monday was ominous: “Jon, are you around? There are some things on the boat I would like to discuss.” Discuss? It sounded more like a doctor preparing you for a negative medical report.

Ronald S. Baron, the billionaire owner of a string of beachfront properties on East Hampton's Further Lane lost a bid to build a walkway through the protected double dunes there. The same week, a higher court rejected his appeal of an earlier decision regarding two walls built on the property without permits.

“I really have that strong understanding of how federal policy comes down and intersects with local policy — what happens on the ground,” David Pechefsky said of his tenure as the New York City Council’s assistant director for housing and economic development.

Tenzin Yignyen, or Lama Tenzin, a teacher of Tibetan Buddhism who has been visiting the Ross School for the last 14 years, says the American education system places far too much importance on producing smarter human beings. "But what about good human beings?"

Renovations began last week at the Long Island Rail Road station in East Hampton Village, marking the start of a months-long project that will keep the building closed well into the summer season, even as train service remains uninterrupted.

The body of a 29-year-old Islip man was pulled from the water north of Montauk Point late Wednesday afternoon after a surfer spotted him floating facedown just after 5 p.m.