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At the green by Town Pond work has begun on construction of a new drainage course that is meant to trap pollutants and silt from surface runoff before they reach Hook and Town Ponds.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced the release of New York State's offshore wind blueprint on Thursday, a framework that could lead to a proposed 90-megawatt, 15-turbine wind farm 30 miles east of Montauk.

The crowds that came to Montauk Point to witness the wild surf created by Tropical Storm Hermine were greeted by something large and white beached under the Lighthouse at Turtle Cove. Not a whale but a 27-foot Stamas fishing boat with twin 225-horsepower Yamaha outboard engines. Its name was Living the Dream.

They were preaching to the choir at Monday night’s meeting of the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee.

The amendments, adopted over fierce opposition, set formulas for allowable floor area and lot coverage on residential parcels larger than one acre, basically reducing the maximum allowable.

The future of Montauk's downtown and harbor areas is under intense discussion this week as a team of planning consultants leads interested members of the public through a series of discussions and workshops Thursday through Saturday.

The former Child Development Center of the Hamptons school on Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton could become the town’s next senior citizens center.

A public comment period on the Army Corps of Engineers’ plans for shore protection projects from Fire Island to Montauk Point, called the FIMP plan for short, has been extended to Oct. 19.

Southampton Town residents belonging to the Conservative and Working Families Parties voted in favor of Town Justice Andrea Schiavoni to appear on those party lines come November.

A plan to replace the former Star Room nightclub on Montauk Highway in Wainscot with a car wash has sparked a firestorm of opposition.

Commercial building projects in Wainscott could be halted for a year if the East Hampton Town Board moves forward on a plan for a development moratorium.

The East Hampton Village Board expressed its collective support for a strategy of lower risk and moderate income when the village's investment adviser delivered an annual update at the board's work session last Thursday.

A public comment period on the Army Corps of Engineers' plans for shore protection projects from Fire Island to Montauk Point, originally set to end on Sept. 29, has been extended to Oct. 19.

A 2006 Mini Cooper rear-ended a 2015 Toyota on West Lake Drive in Montauk Friday night just before 10 p.m., resulting in trips to Southampton Hospital for five people.

A hearing before the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday on allowing affordable apartments in outbuildings as well as primary residences drew questions and comments on a number of issues.

Resting comfortably in the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” side of the aisle, I’m a somewhat slow adopter of new fishing tackle technologies.

Primary elections on Tuesday are quiet here, with only two political parties asking voters to make decisions ahead of the general election in November.

A longtime East Hampton Middle School crossing guard has crossed over into a new role with East Hampton Village, meaning students will see a different face in front of the school this year.

Amagansett’s business district will have a bigger municipal parking lot and perhaps a park, with the purchase of 2.5 largely open acres adjacent to the lot, which was approved last week by the East Hampton Town Board.

Responding to a report of 2015 Dodge Charger with flashing emergency red and white lights forcing cars off the road in Montauk on Sunday afternoon, East Hampton Town police arrested a Brooklyn man, Krishna L. Parihar, on charges of impersonating an officer.

Beaches throughout East Hampton are closed to swimming as Tropical Storm Hermine moves up the coast.

Two new, full-size maps depicting some 213 miles of trails within the Town of East Hampton are now available, after a comprehensive effort across several town departments that included trudging along just about every inch of the trails, through woodlands and meadows, cliffside and shore.

The real estate market in the Hamptons is down so far this year, and so are revenues for the Peconic Bay Regional Community Preservation Fund, but East Hampton Town is bucking the trend.

In the weeks after the public got word that the Sag Harbor School District had not yet voted to extend its superintendent’s contract past its June 2017 expiration date, parents and residents made it clear to the school board during the public comment sessions of its meetings that they wanted the superintendent to stay.

A man accused of pistol-whipping a Springs man during a robbery on Soundview Drive in Montauk early Sunday was arrested following a manhunt in Amagansett later that morning.

A pilot program testing new septic waste management technologies is under way, as researchers, environmentalists, and public officials across the region have targeted nitrogen pollution from wastewater as the cause of continued and increasing problems with the quality of ground and surface waters.

An East Hampton man was arrested on drunken driving charges after crashing a sport utility vehicle into a tree, seriously injuring his passenger, in Springs early Wednesday.

Around this time of year, bogus sightings of false albacore begin to percolate among hopeful fishermen. Anglers eager for a tussle with the line-peeling speedster confuse pods of marauding bluefish for their prize. Eyes see what they want to see when falsie fever spreads around the East End.

Revenues from the Peconic Bay Community Preservation Fund are down nearly 6 percent for the first seven months of 2016 as compared to 2015.

A visitor to East Hampton who lives in Nairobi, Kenya, was arrested by town police Wednesday night for allegedly driving while intoxicated with her twin 10-year-olds in the car and for resisting arrest.