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Construction of a ramp was completed this month to facilitate the loading of parcels onto post office vehicles. The change is meant to help staffers transport parcels to offsite locations for sorting, hopefully speeding up delivery times. 

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A sluggish East End real estate market in January produced less than $5.5 million in revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund, a nearly 45-percent decline from the same period last year, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced on Monday.

When the curtain rises Friday night on the East Hampton High School production of “Les Misérables,” it will be the culmination of more than three months of intense work for the 80-plus students involved.

Federal authorities have criminally charged a former East Hampton man in an alleged scheme to defraud investors.

Simmering tension on the East Hampton Town Board erupted last Thursday during a discussion about the town’s settlement with Marc Rowan, the billionaire who bought Duryea’s fish market in Montauk in 2014.

Simmering tension in the Springs School community burst into public view at the last two public meetings of the district’s school board.

With the enthusiastic endorsement of their lessees, the East Hampton Town Trustees on Monday moved nearer to codifying a significant change in the terms for the lots at Lazy Point, Amagansett, where residents own their houses but lease the underlying land.

Three of the five men accused of running the largest drug ring ever on the South Fork, allegedly raking in as much as $100,000 in three weeks last summer in Montauk, took plea deals this month in Suffolk County Criminal Court and are facing a range of prison sentences.

Most of money the organization uses on direct aid to individuals with life-threatening and catastrophic illnesses in East Hampton, Southampton, Shelter Island, and Southold comes from its annual fund-raiser, to be held Saturday night at the Ram's Head Inn on Shelter Island.

Members of the East Hampton Group for Wildlife, asserting that residents are unsafe in the woods during hunting season, are asking the East Hampton Town Board to institute a ban on hunting on one weekend day.

A high school equivalence prep course at the East Hampton Library offers adults an education they missed as teens.

The auditorium at the Suffolk County Legislature buzzed with life on Monday evening as elected officials and members of the community gathered to discuss a topic that, just a few years ago, would have been a source of public outcry: the legalization of marijuana.

Denny Laine, a rock veteran whose voice adorns an enduring hit from the 1960s and who performed with Paul McCartney throughout the ’70s, will play on Saturday at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor.

The East Hampton Town Republican Committee’s top candidates for 2019, announced at its nominating convention on Saturday, are political newcomers but no strangers to Town Hall. Filling out the ticket are candidates of diverse political persuasions including incumbents who won election as Democrats and others aligned with the group known as the East Hampton Reform Democrats.

Two arrests on suspicion of drunken driving

Elected officials and environmental groups criticized an E.P.A. action plan that postponed the setting of drinking water standards for a group of synthetic chemicals including those that contaminated residential wells in Wainscott and are thought to have originated at East Hampton Airport.

East Hampton and Marc Rowan, the billionaire co-founder of a private equity firm who bought Perry B. Duryea & Son Inc., the fish market with dining on Fort Pond Bay in Montauk, have settled a lawsuit, ending several years of dispute.

Police said that a man shoveling snow from the sidewalk onto Newtown Lane was creating a hazard.

Several residents insisted on Tuesday that the East Hampton Town Board pause further planning for the hamlet’s future until there is additional discussion and study.

If you ever wondered what the grandest house in East Hampton was a century ago, then Frank B. Wiborg’s the Dunes would be a top contender.

A joint venture of Orsted and the Connecticut company Eversource was among four respondents submitting 18 proposals to New York State’s first offshore wind energy solicitation.

Full slate approved by nominating committee; Republicans to meet on Saturday to choose theirs.

Southampton Town police are investigating what caused a two-vehicle accident near Incarnation Lutheran Church on Friday afternoon.

A law requiring low-nitrogen wastewater treatment systems for all new residences and for existing ones that expand by 25 percent or have an increase in the number of bedrooms was adopted by the East Hampton Village Board of Trustees at a meeting on Feb. 7.

The owners of an oceanfront property on Lily Pond Lane, who are seeking permission to tear down a house in a coastal erosion hazard area and construct a new, larger one, presented a revised and pared-down building plan to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

By a 3-to-2 vote that was marked by sharp disagreement, the East Hampton Town Board authorized an agreement with Orsted U.S. Offshore Wind last Thursday that will allow it to conduct archaeological and soil tests along a proposed cable route in Wainscott.

What’s a working parent to do when school is out but work isn’t? Here's a handful of half-day and full-day options offered next week to help make the school holiday a fun one.

The multi-tiered bureaucracy, from the Environmental Protection Agency on down to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the County Health Department, and local-level agencies, has relaxed its guard.

Support for a ban on the intentional release of balloons has grown quickly in the Town of East Hampton since a town trustee first drew attention to their impact on marine wildlife, and last Thursday the town board unanimously passed a law against it.