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In a region already known for its farming industry, schools are increasingly looking toward on-campus gardens for hands-on education and fresh produce to nourish both their students and the surrounding community.

A man was reportedly trapped in a trench at a construction site in Water Mill on Tuesday afternoon.

 In response to requests from baymen, the East Hampton Town Trustees voted on Friday to extend the season for harvesting scallops for one month. The extension, which expires on April 30, applies solely to Three Mile Harbor.

E.M.T.s having breakfast were already on the scene when an elderly man drove into the side of the East Hampton bagel shop.

Before Officer Roland Walker hung up his Stetson yesterday after 31 years on the job, his colleagues looked back at his long career in patrol, describing him as a good cop who was unflappable and possessed the skill to diffuse difficult situations with his calming voice and compassion.

Police said a problem with the landing gear caused the accident Wednesday. The pilot was not hurt, but the plane was damaged.

The East Hampton School Board voted unanimously Tuesday night to fund a full-day prekindergarten program at the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center for the 2015-16 school year.

A lawyer for Daniel Pelosi, who was convicted in 2004 of murdering the financier Ted Ammon at Mr. Ammon’s summer house in East Hampton Village, argued in a Brooklyn appeals court on Friday that the conviction should be overturned because of misconduct on the part of the prosecuting attorney.

A man who calls Amagansett home but has spent much of his adult life either in county jail or state prison is again behind bars in Riverside charged with a felony for burglary.

Four local laws designed to curtail noise from the ever-increasing number of aircraft landing at and taking off from East Hampton Airport were hashed out during a crowded hearing at LTV Studios in Wainscott.

A historic oceanfront house on West End Road in East Hampton Village was destroyed Wednesday by a massive fire despite the efforts of seven fire departments and about 100 firefighters.

One day in about 1885, George Fowler put pen to paper and signed away his remaining rights to his ancestral land at Montauk.

Tires are blowing out and wheels are being damaged at an unprecedented rate in potholes along Montauk Highway.

East Hampton firefighters were called to an oceanfront West End Road house on Wednesday afternoon after a report of a fire. When the first fire officials arrived on the scene at about 2:40, flames were reportedly coming through the roof.

East Hampton Town police are investigating the death of an Amagansett man in an accident on Windmill Lane in that hamlet early Saturday morning. Erik D. Payne, 25, was declared dead on the scene by investigators.

The church’s outreach efforts are not limited to its large and diverse congregation; rather, they are extended to anyone residing in the greater East Hampton area.

East Hampton Town Lt. Christopher M. Hatch may be getting ready to retire, but he’s still plenty busy over the next few weeks as he makes the final preparations for the annual Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick’s Day parade.

The East Hampton Village Board would like to reduce the default speed limit in the village from 30 to 25 miles per hour.

A change to town laws that is under discussion would allow personal watercraft such as Jet Skis, which have been banned from East Hampton Town harbors, to be launched from designated ramps throughout the town and traverse the harbors in order to get to open waters, where they are unrestricted.

The amount the department agreed to pay was based on the profit it believed it had made from a high six-figure investment into Distinctive Ventures L.L.C. in 2006 or 2007.

The battle over an alcohol ban at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett intensified on Tuesday when Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell and Councilman Peter Van Scoyoc visited a meeting of the East Hampton Town Trustees.

East Hampton Town this week got the go-ahead to designate as historic and preserve a house believed to be the sole surviving dwelling of the Montaukett Tribe, moved long ago from tribal land at Montauk’s Indian Field to a parcel on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton.

The pieces are rapidly falling into place for an effort by the United States Army Corps of Engineers to protect the downtown Montauk oceanfront.

A United States Army Corps of Engineers erosion-control project being planned for the downtown Montauk oceanfront has moved closer to reality with the issuing of a key state permit.

This is part of a series that examines the changing face of East Hampton by following a diverse group of kindergartners from a single class at John Marshall through the school year and beyond.

The building housing East Hampton Bowl, which closed in 2013, will be demolished and replaced by a smaller structure of “more or less traditional” design if Jeffrey Suchman, the new owner of the property at 71 Montauk Highway, obtains a variance from the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals to exceed its lot coverage limitation.

Bill King, a well-known sculptor who first came to East Hampton in 1959, died on Wednesday at the age of 90.

A routine hearing before the village zoning board results in quick approval for the utility's small-scale upgrade project.

The blaze at the Montauk Yacht Club on Sunday night began as a chiefs' investigation when an automatic fire alarm went off in one of the rooms. When on duty officers arrived, they discovered flames.

About a half-hour after being called out on a snowy night, firefighters extinguished the flames in one of the buildings at the Montauk Yacht Club.