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Concerned Citizens of Montauk will announce its partnership with the United States Geological Survey today as well as a joint initiative intended to restore the water quality of Lake Montauk, where high bacteria counts have made some of it unsafe for swimming and shellfishing.

Men and women in blue lined the back wall of the East Hampton Village Board meeting room on Friday to watch their colleague Sgt. Kevin Duchemin‚ who is retiring from the police force after 27 years‚ receive a proclamation honoring his service

School officials believed they were in good standing to receive a state grant for a wastewater upgrade. By leaving an archaic "K" off the name of Accabonac Harbor in paperwork, the request was doomed, however.

An investigation that began with a call to the East Hampton Village police on Nov. 2, 2016, from an estate on Middle Lane ended with the arrest by agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation of a Manhattan man at Los Angeles International Airport on Jan. 16.

The telecommunications giant AT&T has launched a lawsuit in federal court after being denied in a bid to install cell phone antenna panels on a lattice windmill at Iacono Farm on Long Lane.

If you stopped in at the I.G.A. food markets in Montauk or on North Main Street in East Hampton this week, you may not have noticed anything unusual, but behind the scenes a big change was underway.

There is no prospect of state money any time soon for a badly damaged road between East Hampton and Sag Harbor.

A barn on farmland owned by the Peconic Land Trust in Amagansett is the focus of litigation against the Suffolk County Farmland Committee, which gave the approval to build it in 2016.

Officials and environmental organizations plan to present a unified front against the Trump administration’s plan to open most federal waters to oil and gas exploration and drilling.

The East Hampton Historical Society has hired Maria Vann as its new executive director, a position that has been vacant since October.

The East Hampton Town Board has voted to approve the lease of a town-owned parcel on Pantigo Place in East Hampton for the construction of an emergency care facility.

While for many the mere thought of running a marathon can seem exhausting, Cara Nelson, a seventh-grade social studies teacher at the East Hampton Middle School, is about to undertake an almost superhuman feat — running seven marathons in seven days on seven continents.

Two state lawmakers have introduced legislation that would require the Long Island Power Authority’s board of trustees to protect the economic interests of its ratepayers when proposing rate increases.

The town will pay $2.1 million for the 1.1-acre commercially zoned property on Montauk Highway using the community preservation fund and a $300,000 donation from the Friends of Georgica Pond Foundation.

The gray seal pup found wandering on Bendigo Road in Amagansett late Tuesday afternoon was released back into the wild on Friday.

David Lys sworn in but not before Councilman Jeffrey Bragman cast a no vote, citing differences over the town airport, zoning, and immigration.

David Lys, a member of the town zoning board of appeals and founder of Citizens for Access Rights, is expected to be formally appointed on Thursday night.

Two Fort Pond Boulevard residents woke up on the morning of Jan. 8 to find an unmarked package on the front step. When the package was opened, the contents appeared to be feces

A new building in a consolidated campus for East Hampton Town’s public offices took a step forward on Tuesday with a presentation to the town board by architects from L.K. McLean Associates of Brookhaven.

A federal district court judge has ruled that a lawsuit by environmentalists over the government’s handling of the potential sale of Plum Island can go forward

An overflow crowd in Southampton on Monday heard from six people who hope to be the Democratic Party candidate to challenge Representative Lee Zeldin in the fall.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals will meet only one time a month, down from twice monthly.

A former resident of East Quogue and a convicted sex offender, was taken from county jail to East Hampton Town Justice Court last Thursday to be arraigned on charges of burglary and possession of stolen property.

There is a growing movement for states to bypass the federal government and enact policies consistent with the Paris Accord, under which nations pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of limiting an increase in the global average temperature to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company that plans to construct the South Fork Wind Farm approximately 36 miles east of Montauk, has asked East Hampton Town for easements allowing it to land the offshore installation’s transmission cable at Beach Lane in Wainscott.

Seven Suffolk County legislators, including the Legislature’s presiding officer and deputy presiding officer, wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke on Friday to express opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to open the outer continental shelf to oil and gas exploration and drilling.

An Amagansett man is hoping to find a witness to an accident in which his 2009 Toyota sedan was severely damaged at about 4 p.m. on Jan. 7.

In November, the dredging by Suffolk County of a part of the harbor inside the stone breakwater caused some consternation among residents, who complained about the wet sand and muddy water‚ or dredged spoils, being pumped ashore for beach replenishment.

At last week’s East Hampton Village Board meeting, Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. declared that the “handwriting is on the wall” regarding the likelihood of legislation to rein in the use of leaf blowers.

East Hampton Village officials are taking a second look at Ronald Perelman’s application to legalize the construction and alteration of multiple structures at the Creeks, his 58-acre estate on Georgica Pond, following the submission of new maps, surveys, drawings, and a landscape plan.