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The board decided to keep the hearing open another two weeks to allow Uber to finalize a proposal of its own.

An overnight curfew on takeoffs and landings enacted at East Hampton Airport last summer had the hoped-for effect, consultants told the town board on Friday, not only quieting the hours during the curfew but curtailing the use of the airport by aircraft defined as noisy and reducing complaints about them.

Harvesting offshore wind energy would go a long way toward meeting the South Fork’s growing demand for electricity while reducing or eliminating the need for fossil-fuel-burning power plants.

A 52-year-old woman from Westchester County whose car crashed into a reviewing stand soon after Sunday's Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick's Day parade ended faces a felony charge of aggravated drunken driving.

The Sag Harbor, East Hampton, Montauk, Southampton, Amagansett, Springs, Sagaponack, and Bridgehampton school districts have announced two-hour delayed openings for Monday in light of the weather forecast

The family of a woman whose body was found in the woods near her Sagaponack house six weeks after she was reported missing last fall met with the Southampton Town supervisor and police chief to review how and why police concluded that her death was a suicide.

Spring peepers, spring peepers, spring peepers, peep, peep, peeping away. It must be spring, I thought, and it was.

Renewable Energy Long Island, a nonprofit organization that advocates a transition from fossil fuels, will host a forum on wind energy on Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon at the East Hampton Middle School.

Whatever you do, don’t call it a bowling alley, said Howard Ellman, architect of what he called the “family entertainment center” planned for East Hampton Indoor Tennis on Daniels Hole Road.

Led by a team of planning consultants, a town-wide project that will bring residents, business owners, and officials together to shape the future of East Hampton’s commercial areas got under way this week.

College is something students are almost ubiquitously expected to do once they finish high school. So says Claire Kunzeman, who has no intention of going to college.

The Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day festivities start tomorrow and the parade is set for Sunday.

Winter northeasters expose septic, drainage systems, and threaten bathhouse.

The buzzwords surrounding mezcal these days emit a certain energy. Vogue says the spirit has a “romantic appeal,” Los Angeles magazine says drinking mezcal is an “academic experience.” Others have called it “trendsetting,” “artisanal,” and “the best-kept secret of Mexico.”

Tim Ferriss, a former Springs School student and the best-selling author of “The 4-Hour Work Week," has funded 145 school projects across Long Island that teachers had posted over the past four months.

An East Hampton man with a long criminal record held without bail after being caught repeatedly selling Oxy

With a new law in place requiring rental properties to be registered with East Hampton Town, a new business, Rental Registry Expediters, has been established to relieve homeowners of that task.

A driver lost control of her Jeep Grand Cherokee coming around a curve on Three Mile Harbor Road, at Woodbine Drive, in Springs on Wednesday morning, causing her to crash into the woods, Springs Fire Chief Peter Grimes said.

The John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton Village had been evacuated after the school received a bomb threat on Wednesday morning.

Thomas Pazera, 49, of Sag Harbor was arraigned in East Hampton Town Justice Court Tuesday morning after being charged with aggravated drunken driving at the misdemeanor level following an early morning accident on Route 114.

Southampton Hospital will receive a $10 million state grant toward construction of a satellite emergency room and health care center in East Hampton, money that will jump-start a project long advocated by East Hampton Town officials.

The Council of Administrators and Supervisors named Adam Fine, the principal of East Hampton High School, Long Island's Administrator of the Year.

Some 20 teachers who have been working without a contract since July 1 sent the Montauk School Board a strong signal on Tuesday when they arrived at a board meeting wearing black T-shirts with “Montauk Teachers Association” emblazoned on them in white letters.

Despite the unwillingness of the owners to sell the properties on Ferry Road, Sag Harbor Village officials are moving forward with plans for a waterfront park they want to see next to the bridge to North Haven.

The Nov. 30 shutdown of Health Republic Insurance of New York, a nonprofit cooperative established in connection with the Affordable Care Act, left policyholders scrambling to find new coverage and health care providers short millions of dollars.

On Saturday morning when Friday’s snow had just begun to melt, I went on Eileen Schwinn’s annual Morton Wildlife Refuge bird walk under the auspices of the East End Audubon Society.

The stakes in the long-running duel between the Town of East Hampton and the owners of Cyril’s Fish House on Napeague were raised considerably this week when Justice Steven Tekulsky scheduled May 3 as the day to begin jury selection in a criminal trial of the ownership group

Any local building department file contains deeds, architectural drawings, board approvals, and the like, but those looking back at the old Bulova Watchcase factory project will also find a bound book and hundreds of digital images documenting its recently completed renovation.

Tom Knobel resigned his position as chairman of the East Hampton Town Republican Committee, a month after being fired from his position at the Suffolk County Board of Elections.

Maureen and Dave Rutkowski are once again taking the reins at John’s Drive-In in Montauk. Mr. Rutkowski opened the popular ice cream and hamburger joint in 1985 and operated it with the help of his family up until 17 years ago, when he sold it to Tom Pontecorvo, a longtime employee.