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Beginning in 2018, installation of advanced technology septic systems that treat waste for nitrogen will be required in East Hampton Town for new buildings, according to a law passed Tuesday by the town board.

On Tuesday, Laser Industries, an excavation and clearing company brought on board by the Springs School District’s architect, BBS Architects and Engineers, began excavating leaching pools near the back of the school to determine the state of its beleaguered septic system.

The East Hampton Town Trustees’ harbor management committee will host officials from Deepwater Wind, the Rhode Island company planning to construct a 15-turbine wind farm approximately 30 miles from Montauk, when it meets on Wednesday at 6 p.m.

Blowfish go by several names — bottlefish, blow toads, northern puffer, sea squab, puffers, chicken of the sea, and a few other local monikers. No matter what you decide to call them, they are one of our oddest-looking fish, as well as one of our tastiest and most affordable.

Two men charged with felony drunken driving were arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Saturday morning.

President Trump was repeatedly scorned by a full house at Guild Hall in East Hampton on Tuesday as the first Hamptons Institute discussion of 2017 focused on climate change and how to combat it.

SagTown Coffee reopened on Main Street this week, bigger and better than before the fire that destroyed it and several other businesses, including the Sag Harbor Cinema, nearly eight months ago.

Two Montauk restaurants that are allegedly transformed into nightclubs after dinner hours are feeling the heat this week, with East Hampton Town officials going to the State Supreme Court for injunctions to force them to operate according to the zoning code, which allows them to be restaurants only, and to limit the size of their crowds.

The fate of Seamore’s, the seafood restaurant that opened this year at the Breakers Motel in Montauk, could hang on a decision by a State Supreme Court Justice as to whether it is subject to site plan approval.

No trial for Steven Mezynieski.

Sean Ludwick, who was charged with vehicular homicide for the August 2015 crash in Noyac that killed his passenger, Paul Hansen, 53, will plead guilty on Aug. 15 to that and many of the other charges he faces, prosecution and defense attorneys said Tuesday.

Tinder was kicked out of one house in Montauk this summer after throwing raucous parties, now it has been suggested to be responsible for doing some kicking out of its own.

A mosquito collected in East Hampton on July 26 has tested positive for West Nile virus, Suffolk County health officials announced on Friday.

The Grey Lady, a Montauk harborside restaurant that has been cited several times this summer for overcrowding, is under court order to limit the number of people it admits and to stop operating as a nightclub in violation of East Hampton zoning rules.

Detectives are investigating what happened on Hayground Road, near Windmill Lane, on Friday, July 28.

A new collaboration between the East End Classic Boat Society and the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter aims to teach kids valuable skills that might even open doors for future careers.

The Springs School Board has decided to tear up the asphalt covering a play area in order to assess a septic system problem.

A persistent, hard northeast wind at the end of July is not all that common.

An informational forum on deer hosted by the Village Preservation Society of East Hampton last Thursday largely focused on ticks and the pathogens they carry, though one presenter emphasized the impact of deer on forests and what he said was their destruction of other animals’ habitat.

Southampton Town police announced today the arrests of two men last Thursday on multiple felony charges related to the alleged dealing of heroin.

Police officers shouldering semiautomatic weapons greeted attendees at various events in Southampton Town recently, including the Children’s Museum of the East End’s annual family fair and Super Saturday.

The disconnect between the science of and policy on climate change in the United States, particularly in the Trump era, will be the subject of a Hamptons Institute panel talk Tuesday at Guild Hall.

Jordan’s Run, a 5K run-walk in Sag Harbor honoring that village’s heroic Marine, Jordan C. Haerter, has, after taking some tentative steps in 2016, grown by leaps and bounds.

A noise complaint from a resident of Buell Lane in East Hampton Village shortly before midnight on Saturday drew police to 27 Edwards Lane, where they said they found over 50 young partiers in the backyard.

Days after a pondfront property owner successfully lobbied the East Hampton Town Trustees to allow increased testing of Wainscott Pond, sampling conducted by researchers from the Stony Brook University confirmed a bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, there.

Detectives are investigating what caused the one-car crash on Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road, near Woodbine Drive.

East Hampton officials moved Wednesday to shut down a Montauk oceanfront residence used as a party spot for the app-based dating site Tinder, authorizing the town attorney to seek an injunction against using the house as hook-up central.

Perry Gershon, a businessman and entrepreneur who is a Democratic candidate to represent New York’s First Congressional District, announced on Monday that he has raised $102,700 since July 15.

In an 11:30 a.m. ceremony, members of the Everit Albert Herter Veterans of Foreign Wars post in East Hampton will officially conclude a duty they have fulfilled on behalf of the L.V.I.S. for many years: the placing of American flags at sites throughout the village on national holidays and other important dates.

“Are these art?” asked more than one visitor to a recently vacated gallery space in Amagansett. No, they're Budnitz bicycles.