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Students in four South Fork school districts came out ahead of statewide averages in the last standardized English and math tests for grades three through eight.

Modern surf fishermen rely on rods manufactured with high-performance carbon fibers, reels built with aerospace gear technology, and lines created in chemistry labs to catch fish. Things were a little different at the dawn of surf fishing in Montauk.

In response to the flood of big houses being built here on modest lots that almost disappear beneath them, and following the recent examples of Sag Harbor and East Hampton Villages, the town board has been discussing new rules that would limit a house’s size relative to the size of its lot.

In the last month differences among the East Hampton Town Trustees have erupted into shouting matches and accusations of politicization and grandstanding, all over the Trustee Waters Improvement and Management Task Force, a.k.a. the harbor management committee.

A portion of East Hampton Village Main Street was closed for over an hour on Tuesday morning after a three-vehicle collision near Mill Hill Lane and the Baker House inn.

According to witnesses, the approximately 10 a.m. crash involved a westbound septic waste truck that struck an oncoming minivan and a third vehicle.

The vehicles — a Grant Heating and Cooling car, a Callahead portable sanitation truck, and the beige minivan — were damaged significantly on their front ends and had to be towed away.

In a pre-dawn raid at the Malibu Motel in Montauk Tuesday, East Hampton Town police made three arrests on drug possession charges.

The Coast Guard rescued four people who were in distress in Lake Montauk on Saturday.

Crystal Hayes, 34, and Christopher King, 38, had exited their Jeep to take pictures of a brush fire on Sunrise Highway when they were hit by a 20-year-old allegedly driving under the influence of drugs.

While it is not unusual for a restaurant to open and close in a single summer, the end usually comes after Labor Day. For Deckers Bar and Grill in Sag Harbor, however, closing day has come early.

The Bridgehampton Fire District is facing a potential fine from the Suffolk County Department of Health Services for an alleged code violation involving the district’s new generator, which a county official said was three-quarters full of fuel during an inspection conducted before the district obtained a permit for the generator.

The Bridgehampton School District has directed its architect to draw up a proposal for an expansion to the school building.

Enterococcus, a coliform bacteria that indicates the presence of fecal matter in the water, is another threat to the well-being of the South Fork’s waterways and the people who use them.

New rules limiting the size of houses that can be built on different-size properties in East Hampton Town are under discussion following a tightening of house-size rules in East Hampton Village last year and a recent discussion of similar issues in Sag Harbor resulting in a law setting house-size limits in the village for the first time.

East End citizen activists focused on the problem of aircraft noise are keying in to a new online plane-tracking system that provides real-time information about planes overhead and allows complaints to be lodged about aircraft noise.

Riding the hot bats of their catcher, Phil Capra, and their first baseman, Rob Vani, the Montauk Mustangs evened the count in Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League's championship series, defeating the top-seeded Westhampton Aviators Wednesday.

Spurred on by a desire to win the franchise's first-ever Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League championship, the Montauk Mustangs swept the North Ospreys this past weekend, 13-4 and 10-7.

East Hampton Town police harvested 48 marijuana plants, along with drying and dried, processed plants in a raid at 74 Talmage Farm Lane in Springs on Friday

New York State Comptroller Thomas F. DiNapoli on Wednesday released an audit criticizing the Montauk School District for financial practices that allegedly included overestimating its budget, keeping surpluses that exceed state limits, overfilling some reserve funds, and failing to create long-term financial and capital plans.

The booths are set up and preparations are being finalized for the Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair, which opens at 10 a.m. on Saturday with attractions for children and adults alike.

Summer is the season. For what, you may ask, and the answer varies widely in East Hampton Town, depending on if you are a vacationer here, a second-home owner, or a year-round resident.

Monday night’s rain, though much less than an inch, was just enough to keep the broad-leaved trees from beginning to turn pale green.

After a four-year renovation, John Jermain reopens in its Main Street home.

Fourteen years ago on Atlantic Avenue Beach in Amagansett, a near-crisis unfolded when a lifeguard training on a Jet Ski lost control and hit a toddler playing at the water’s edge. Now a teenager, the victim has become a rescuer himself, working as a lifeguard at the very same beach.

Three East Hampton Town employees worked together Tuesday morning to free a dog trapped in a locked, overheated car.

With the Nov. 8 election three months away and the major parties’ candidates for president looming over national debate, the fight to represent New York’s First Congressional District in the House of Representatives has been low key since Anna Throne-Holst defeated Dave Calone in a tight Democratic primary.

A hearing will be held by the East Hampton Town Board next Thursday night on a proposed amendment to the community preservation fund that would both extend the 2-percent real estate transfer tax, which raises money for the fund, by 20 years through 2050 and authorize the use of up to 20 percent of the proceeds for projects to improve water quality.

A scientific analysis of East Hampton Town’s coastal geology is under way and an exploration of what to do in the face of climate change and sea level rise will be launched soon with the help of more than $400,000 in state grants.

Doctors for centuries have suspected that sea air has recuperative powers. They’ve directed patients with a wide range of ailments to head for the shore. Back in 1894, the English medical journal The Lancet offered that “those who are languid and debilitated from over-work or long-continued strain obtain benefit from sea air.”

A passenger was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital after an accident on Springs-Fireplace Road, near Queens Lane, in East Hampton.

Joseph R. Dowling, 24, of Sag Harbor, a former star player for the East Hampton High School football team, was arraigned in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court Saturday morning on two felony charges, possession of heroin with an intent to sell and possession of more than half an ounce of the narcotic.