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A four-acre East Hampton Town-owned waterfront park in Montauk named for the late Carol Morrison, an environmentalist who lived in that hamlet, is ready for public use after a lengthy effort to save it from being sold.

Richard Barons, executive director of the East Hampton Historical Society since 2006, will retire in the spring.

E. Virgil Conway, a Montauk native who grew up in one of the original Carl Fisher houses in Upper Shepherd’s Neck and went on to a career of public service, including a key term as chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, died at Southampton Hospital on Oct. 21.

A four-day jury trial in East Hampton Town Justice Court ended on Friday when an 80-year-old Huntington man was found guilty of seven misdemeanor violations of the town zoning code.

The seller may not be willing, but Southampton Town officials are moving forward with a plan to purchase property in Sag Harbor with money from the community preservation fund.

A fire broke out in a basement laundry room in the Center for Well-Being Wednesday night.

As Ditch Plain neighbors and their attorney made the case on Tuesday for the revocation of a certificate of occupancy for a motel at 11 Ditch Plains Road in Montauk.

The South Fork’s two candidates for the Suffolk County Legislature continued to clash this week over key issues that affect the region. Amos Goodman, a Republican, and Bridget Fleming, a Democrat who sits on the Southampton Town Board, traded assertions this week in an interview with The Star.

Painting materials cause two of the three fires that broke out in the Town of East Hampton this past week.

Retired high school teacher, who taught science at East Hampton High School, has spent the better part of the three years studying ticks, cataloging their relative numbers, and determining their annual cycles.

Springs, which just celebrated its 50th anniversary, is the last district on the South Fork to integrate paid responders into the volunteer emergency medical system.

The family of Lilia Aucapina are holding onto their belief that's she alive, though they don't believe she would have willingly left her two children.

The Bridgehampton Fire District will be able to buy a new combination pumper and ladder truck following a successful bond referendum vote on Tuesday.

A caller reported flames were blowing out windows at a house on Hands Creek Road in East Hampton.

While observing that both East Hampton Town and state polices favor so-called soft erosion control, a court magistrate said that an Army Corps determination had concluded that the project "does not run afoul of those restrictions.”

Carlos R. Aucapina was arraigned on misdemeanor charges of criminal contempt, one of which occurred the morning his estranged wife, Lilia Aucapina, went missing.

A fire broke out at Gosman's Dock restaurant in Montauk on Friday night.

An East Hampton Town rental registry law has been honed and is being readied for a hearing that will provide an opportunity for members of the public to give their opinions on the draft legislation to the town board.

Parents of second-grade Springs School students asked the district to hire teaching assistants for their children’s classrooms at a school board meeting on Oct. 5.

Deer are herbivores that eat just about anything in the woods. A full-grown deer of 100 pounds eats five to nine pounds of vegetation a day. The damage is already obvious and widespread.

Financial filings with the New York State Board of Elections indicate that roughly three-quarters of the money raised by East Hampton Republicans since June has come from businesses and individuals with ties to the town’s airport.

Crossroads Music, an instrument shop at Amagansett Square, will close at the end of the year.

A panel including Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell, and Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone addressed environmental issues at a standing-room-only forum sponsored by Concerned Citizens of Montauk at the Montauk Firehouse on Sunday.

The Springs School facilities committee on Monday stopped short of recommending a bond referendum to finance a capital project, as it previously appeared poised to do, and instead introduced suggestions that will cost the school district money without proposing a way to pay for them.

A report from the state’s inspector general’s office was critical of several of the Department of Environmental Conservation's enforcement practices as they relate to the commercial fishing industry.

Foster Maer, the senior litigation counsel of LatinoJustice, a New York City civil rights organization, has written East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell asking for an investigation into Town Police handling of the death of 21-year-old Gabriela Armijos in September of last year.

Even as storm-force winds blew across Montauk last week, sending waves high up onto the downtown beach where a line of sandbags covered with excavated sand is slated for construction by the Army Corps of Engineers, project contractors set up shop with a trailer at Montauk’s Kirk Park parking lot.

A contingent hoping to see increased opportunities for affordable housing in East Hampton Town rallied at Town Hall on Tuesday to express support for a proposed project in Wainscott that has been decried by the Wainscott School Board.

Tenzin Yignyen, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who has taught in the United States for 20 years, returned to the Ross School in East Hampton last week, where he constructed and later dismantled a sand mandala.

The mandala, a balanced, multicolored geometric composition, is a tool, Mr. Yignyen told students, with which to express the importance of compassion and a good heart. “In schools, I use it as a tool to teach people spiritual practice, how to live an ethical life, and how to develop inner qualities such as compassion, patience, contentment, and so forth,” he said.

A woman died after being struck by a westbound pickup truck on Montauk Highway near the Bridgehampton Post Office on Monday evening at about 7:30, Southampton Town police said.