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A free ukulele class for beginners is being offered at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church.

It was about four years ago that Judy Smith noticed a seagull walking around on her deck and gave it something to eat. The seagull stuck around and visited Ms. Smith and her husband every weekend, loudly knocking its beak on their back window to say hello.

A $4 million purchase of enhanced development rights on almost 30 acres of farmland in Wainscott would be the first East Hampton Town acquisition under which only food farming would be permitted.

The East Hampton 9-10 Little League traveling all-stars, who had won the District 36 championship the night before, lost a first-round Section IV game Tuesday to Smithtown-St. James, the District 35 champion, by a score of 12-5.

Thomas Mahl, a longtime Montauk homeowner, was fined $15,000 after pleading guilty to 24 misdemeanor charges stemming from a 2016 search at his Beech Hollow Court house.

Representative Lee Zeldin has supported President Trump, but according to statements made on Tuesday, that support may be slipping.

The East Hampton Village branch of People's United Bank, which had been slated to close in September, will remain open, the bank announced this week.

Less than a year ago, Jinna Rolf, who is 93, began painting. Although she and the other members of her art class have had a variety of hobbies during their lives, all of them discovered the joys of painting in their later years.

After a friend’s death in Haiti earthquake, a commitment to helping endures.

With the July Fourth holiday weekend beginning on Friday and the Fourth itself not until Tuesday, the number of visitors in East Hampton did not quickly abate, and traffic, crowding, and egregious, even illegal behavior, remained a focus of town officials.

Arthur Graham was elected to the East Hampton Village Board last month and took a seat among his colleagues this week.

Eighty-three years after opening as the Jungle Inn, a Fort Pond Boulevard watering hole in Springs is once again a restaurant, a place to hear live music, and a community hub.

Although the Montauk Chamber of Commerce has put on its Stars Over Montauk, Grucci Fireworks show for almost two decades, in recent years it has fallen short in its fund-raising goals.

After a 28-hour search that spanned 4,200 square miles, the Coast Guard calls off search for missing fisherman last seen aboard a commercial boat 25 miles south of Montauk.

Nearly 24 hours after a crewmember was last seen on Monday afternoon 30 miles south of Montauk, the search continues Tuesday in the Atlantic Ocean.

The driver did not report the accident on an East Hampton Village road and will be given a summons.

Students who graduated from the Eleanor Whoitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton on Friday were the 20th class to graduate from the center.

Unusually high numbers of emaciated great shearwaters, which spend most of their time far out at sea, have been spotted on Long Island beaches in the past week.

A jewelry sale that was to be held Friday at Grey Gardens, the West End Road residence made famous by its connection to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and a 1975 documentary about its inhabitants, has raised questions about the use of private houses for commercial ventures.

The aerial application of mosquito larvicide over marshlands in East Hampton Town could be reduced if a proposed new protocol demonstrates less need for it.

The geranium planters that line Bridgehampton’s Main Street come spring and the Christmas trees that light up over the holidays are the handiwork of the Bridgehampton Village Improvement Association. Members were also behind landscaping at the Bridgehampton train station in recent years.

Despite neighbors' protests, house with three "front yards" will get garage in one.

The grand jury that indicted Valon Shoshi last week in an assault earlier this month on his former girlfriend raised the legal stakes for him significantly by adding two new felony charges to the two he was already facing.

The patriarch of a farming family that runs one of the largest remaining agricultural operations on the South Fork, Cliff Foster was also an advocate for farming and farm interests on Long Island for decades.

This is not Ed Deyermond’s first time leaving the Sag Harbor Village Board — even he has lost track of how many — but he swears it is his last.

Today is the day that Uber, Lyft, and other “transportation network companies” can begin operating legally on the South Fork, as the result of a law approved in Albany earlier this month.

A potentially overtaxed sewage system at the Montauk Shores Condominium has led to an effective moratorium on construction and upgrades to units in the oceanfront mobile home park.

Graduation day was an intimate affair at the Bridgehampton School, where the superintendent was able to share a personal anecdote about each of the 14 seniors in the class of 2017.

The Town of East Hampton learned on Monday that the United States Supreme Court will not review a lower court decision that struck down three 2015 laws restricting access to the East Hampton Airport in order to reduce aircraft noise.

In acknowledging the current state of the world and the political arena in which we are living, the CNN news anchor and journalist Don Lemon addressed Sag Harbor’s Pierson High School class of 2017 on Saturday about the freedom of expression.