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A fund-raiser will be held on Saturday for a couple still recovering from injuries sustained when they were hit by an allegedly inebriated driver in August.

The Sagg Bridge will get the rehabilitation it so desperately needs starting later this month. Sagaponack Village officials announced Monday that the Bridge Lane structure will be closed to all vehicular and pedestrian traffic on Nov. 14 at 7 a.m. for the extensive repairs.

It’s easy to write about essential kitchen tools, but it’s more fun to talk about the nonessential, the unnecessary, the frivolous, and ridiculous.

Dennis E. McGuire, a resident of the mobile home park on Oakview Highway, was arrested Monday night and charged with videoing a woman as she was using the shower in his residence.

Survey by grassroots group looks at what matters most to hamlet residents.

A senior airport attendant, a part-time attendant, and a maintenance employee are manning the East Hampton Town Airport this week after the East Hampton Town Board fired the facility’s manager last Thursday.

While Bridgehampton Fire District commissioners say a public hearing on the district's 2017 budget was held on Oct. 18, others claim it never took place.

The zoning board voted 4-0 on Tuesday to uphold a determination by the town’s chief principal building inspector, Ann Glennon, that Paddle Diva, which operates out of the Shagwong Marina on Three Mile Harbor, had expanded the marina’s use beyond what is allowed under town code.

Carl Yastrzemski, the major league baseball great, is among those who are to be inducted into the Bridgehampton School's Hall of Fame next month.

The Bridgehampton School Board, which has discussed possible expansion of the kindergarten through 12th grade school building over the years, has set Dec. 13 for a referendum on whether to raise some $24.7 million to do so.

Despite predictions of a disappointing bay scallop harvest, the director of the East Hampton Town Shellfish Hatchery delivered a mostly upbeat assessment of his agency’s efforts to the East Hampton Town Trustees on Monday.

It was a long and winding road, but the dilapidated building at 6 Union Street in Sag Harbor Village, commonly known as the Morpurgo house, finally changed hands this week.

The driver of a Ford pickup truck struck the vehicle Dick Cavett and his wife, Martha Rogers, were riding in late Wednesday afternoon, sending it into the woods off Montauk Highway. Mr. Cavett was not hurt, but his wife was taken to the hospital with multiple lacerations on her head and face.

The East Hampton Town Board on Thursday changed up the management of the town airport, terminating Jemille Charlton and returning Jim Brundige to the position he left two years ago.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell on Friday declined to discuss Mr. Charlton's departure other than to say he was "let go."

Mr. Cantwell said Mr. Brundige was brought back because of "his availability and experience to act as interim airport manager." The appointment is effective Nov. 1 and runs through Dec. 31, 2017, while the town searches for a permanent airport manager.

A 352-foot-long bridge that would be 140 feet north of the existing Dunemere Lane bridge across Hook Pond, and more or less parallel to it, drew sharp questions about preservation of the vista and the pond’s water quality when the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals considered an application from the Maidstone Club on Friday.

The tone was heated and the attacks were sometimes personal when Representative Lee Zeldin and Anna Throne-Holst, his challenger to represent New York’s First Congressional District, met at Concerned Citizens of Montauk’s 46th annual candidates forum on Sunday at the Montauk School.

An event called Hearts Out for Haiti on Saturday at 668 the Gig Shack in Montauk will raise money to buy water filters and solar chargers and for direct relief efforts in that country.

The East Hampton School District’s plan to build a bus maintenance barn and refueling facility on the Cedar Street side of its high school campus has begun to take shape around options that the district says would reduce its impact on the surrounding residential neighborhood.

The Ross School’s lower school campus on Butter Lane in Bridgehampton is home not only to students, but also to birds, butterflies, frogs, and other animals that have found favorable habitats there.

Last year, Ken Walles said a broker asked him if he would be interested in selling his Montauk motel, the Oceanside Resort. It was not on the market, but the broker wanted to know what the price would have to be for him to sell.

Police and fire officials are on the scene of a head-on collision involving a propane truck near the Montauk transfer station. At least two people were seriously injured.

A politically damaging 2005 recording of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for president, released after the poll was conducted could affect turnout in New York’s First Congressional District.

Hunters for Deer, a not-for-­pro­fit based in East Quogue that arranges ­for insured and proficiency-tested bowhunters to hunt deer on private ­property, challenged a Sag Harbor Village law that prohibits hunting within the ­village limits after a member of the group was caught bowhunting in the woods behind houses near Oakland Cemetery.

A decline in revenue from parking despite high attendance at Main Beach and Two Mile Hollow this summer was reported at an East Hampton Village Board work session last Thursday, drawing suggestions about the causes and how to counteract them.

The residents of the Northwest Woods Main Street requested that the name be changed for obvious reasons, such as police, ambulance, and fire department services, but also because visitors and deliveries are inconvenienced by accidentally going to Main Street in East Hampton Village.

The East Hampton Town Board is considering plans to shift the review of artists’ studios to the town planning board and to make several changes to the zoning code in connection with what happens when a property with an artist’s studio is sold.

The water fountain in the Amagansett School’s gymnasium tested above New York State’s action level for lead last month, as did the faucets of six sinks, according to a letter from the district addressed to parents, guardians, community members, and staff.

With the Nov. 8 election looming, Concerned Citizens of Montauk will host its 46th annual meet the candidates forum on Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Montauk School gymnasium. Peter Lowenstein of the group’s board will moderate the forum, which is free and open to the public.

Sag Harbor Village officials have been mulling how to regulate signs that are posted at the entrance to Long Wharf, with some calling for a ban on signs there altogether.

After a 911 call in which a neighbor complained that a deer was being kept in a backyard as a pet, the owner of the house was charged with illegally adding four bedrooms, including two in the basement, and with several other code violations.