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I love Super Bowl parties! The Super Bowl is a day of lager and shouting, gorging and gambling. There are Vegas-worthy halftime shows, and it’s an excuse to eat tiny, deep fried bird-meat parts swathed in muy picoso sauce and celery splinters sidecar-ed with blue cheese dip. I dust off my block of Velveeta cheese (Have you ever noticed it doesn’t require refrigeration?!) and make chile con queso dip.

An aggressive stance toward those who violate the East Hampton Town Code translated last year into better compliance with the laws.

The Springs Fire District, the last holdout on the South Fork, agreed in October to put aside $100,000 in its 2016 budget to fund a paid E.M.S. program to supplement its volunteer department. The program started Monday.

It may be the most unusual winter I’ve witnessed here in my 63 years of residence on both forks.

Recent news reports alleging that the Wounded Warrior Project, the country’s largest veteran-care organization, spends an inordinate amount of its donations on travel, hotels, and meals have been angrily challenged by some East Hampton residents who have devoted their time and effort to the charity.

A group of Napeague residents who have been fighting against beach driving on the shore near their neighborhood and the summertime gathering of vehicles at what has become known as Truck Beach stepped up its campaign this week with the release on its website, safebeach.org, of a video showing the area clogged with cars.

Jack Ingram deLashmet, a renowned landscape architect and garden designer whose sense of humor and courtly Southern manner charmed friends and clients, died at Good Shepherd Hospice in Port Jefferson on Sunday after a long illness.

Twelve headstones in East Hampton Village's historic North End Cemetery, some of them hundreds of years old, were damaged by a hit-and-run driver Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

Every winter it seems, we have one or two northeasters, but rarely does one come accompanied by both a blizzard and full moon tides. Such was the case over the weekend and we were still digging out on Monday. Some meteorologists are saying that we could have another storm, almost equally as strong, this coming weekend.

Districts warily eye near-zero cap on tax increases.

East Hampton Town’s shores were spared the brunt of a winter storm that grazed the East End last weekend, but the storm did take away a significant amount of sand from the downtown Montauk beach where contractors for the Army Corps of Engineers are building a sandbag wall.

John Michael Kennedy, a criminal trial lawyer who gained national attention representing Ivana Trump in her divorce from Donald Trump in the early 1990s, died at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan on Monday of cancer.

Learning to sail, pricing boats in an alleged Puerto Rico bail-jumping plot.

East Hampton Town police have asked for the public's help in identifying a woman who used credit card information apparently stolen from an East Hampton resident.

One current and one former Springs School employee have brought legal actions against the district, alleging discriminatory practices. Their claims bring pending actions to three, with Fran Silipo having already brought suit against the district claiming wrongful termination and a hostile environment.

A Springs property owner has sued East Hampton Town and the Nature Conservancy to stop the public purchase of two lots next to his Squaw Road house.

Julie Lofstad has won a seat on the Southampton Town Board in a special election held Tuesday, giving Supervisor Jay Schneiderman the Democratic majority on the board.

The blizzard may have kept a lot of people inside, but emergency personnel, many of them volunteer firefighters and emergency medical technicians, didn't have the luxury of hunkering down.

Schools across the South Fork will have delayed openings on Monday due to the impact of this weekend's snowfall.

The East Hampton, Amagansett, Sag Harbor, Bridgehampton, Wainscott, Sagaponack, Montauk, Springs, and Southampton School Districts will all begin classes two hours later than usual. The Ross School will also have a two-hour delayed start. 

The Towns of East Hampton and Southampton are under a state of emergency as snow forecast and wind increases Saturday morning.

Stuart Vorpahl Jr., a fisherman, historian, former town trustee, secretary of the East Hampton Baymen’s Association, and a descendant of one of East Hampton’s oldest families, died last Thursday at Southampton Hospital.

Amagansett life station may open by June anniversary of Nazi landing.

A unanimous East Hampton School Board awarded tenure on Tuesday night to its elementary school principal, Beth Doyle, who is in her third year as principal at John M. Marshall Elementary School.

In a move that could further East Hampton Town’s commitment to reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, a study is under way on the feasibility of creating a local energy network that would generate power here for critical facilities and have the ability to separate from the electrical grid in the event of power outages.

Intruder bypassed cash, looking for something else.

Emergency medical service personnel were recognized last week for saving the lives of two people in recent months.

Sean Ludwick, the New York real estate developer accused of vehicular homicide in the death of a Noyac man last summer, reportedly tried to buy a large boat to flee the country.

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have called it a "world house," according to the Rev. Walter Silva Thompson, the pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton, where a diverse cross section of people from Southampton to Montauk came together to honor Dr. King's legacy.

Richard Hendrickson, a volunteer with the National Weather Service’s Cooperative Observer Program since he was a teenager, continued to take measurements and readings at his backyard weather station on Lumber Lane until early last year.

Though the temperature is frigid, town officials have turned their attention toward summer and its influx of visitors that last year turned downtown Montauk into a noisy and chaotic scene.