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The Springs Fire Department kicked off its 50th anniversary year with a ceremony on New Year’s Day.

A fire that started in a garbage can outside an attached garage quickly ripped through a Northwest Woods house on New Year’s Day, destroying it.

East Hampton Town Supervisor Larry Cantwell looks back on 2014 accomplishments and ahead to new goals.

Former East Hampton Town fire marshal in hospital with severe lacerations, mainly to his hands, after New Year's Day dog attack on Todd Drive.

East Hampton Town police are investigating the death of an elderly man who was discovered in his driveway on Isle of Wight Road in Springs on Thursday afternoon.

The Trustees of the Freeholders and Commonalty of East Hampton, the nine-member board having authority over common lands under the Dongan Patent given them by the king of England in 1686, may be on the move.

A Jewish Center of the Hamptons group was in Cuba with a cultural attaché at the United States Interests Section when the groundbreaking news was announced.

Ken Dodge retired this week after 41 years as a physician assistant, wrapping up a career during which he cared for more than a generation’s worth of East Hampton residents and visitors.

Southampton Fire Department volunteers helped wildlife rescuers free a hawk from 35 feet up in a tree in Water Mill on Monday night.

Residents and a village police officer used fire extinguishers to put out a small blaze at 29 Pondview Lane before it could do much damage.

Village and town call for more samples and removal of contaminated soil.

Since starting kindergarten at the John M. Marshall Elementary School in September, Atilla Secim’s English has improved by leaps and bounds.

A 54-year-old East Hampton man has been indicted on two sex-crime charges involving a minor after allegedly convincing an out-of-state teenager to take and send him nude cellphone photographs of herself.

East Hampton and Southampton Towns acted in concert last Thursday to ban the distribution by retail stores of the thin plastic bags typically used to package purchased items.

Family appeals for help following brain injury.

The most recent test results from several bodies of water in Montauk were released this week.

An amendment that would update East Hampton Village’s lighting code was put on hold at the village board’s meeting on Friday when the executive director of the East Hampton Business Alliance asked, on behalf of the group’s membership, that the hearing remain open.

A proposed offshore wind farm to be situated 30 miles east of Montauk is in doubt in the wake of the Long Island Power Authority’s rejection of the project.

The subdivision, on Wainscott Hollow Road, will divide the property into seven house lots, with about 70 percent of the acreage set aside as an agricultural reserve area.

The battle over accessory structures and how they can be used continued at an East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals, as a couple sought to legalize renovations to a pool house on their property that left it with an extra bedroom and sitting room in what had been a storage room.

Christopher Sarlo, a longtime East Hampton High School principal, will serve as the Springs School’s interim principal for the month of January as the district’s principal, Eric Casale, recovers from spinal surgery.

An anonymous would-be donor recently approached East Hampton High School’s principal about paying to install permanent field lights. Several community members expressed their dismay at the prospect.

A draft rule to limit overnight parking of commercial vehicles and work trucks on residential lots was laid on the table at East Hampton Town Hall on Tuesday, after a previous attempt at legislation had been sent back to the drawing board.

One of the second wave of 20th-century artists who found their way to the South Fork and used the landscape as a chief source of inspiration, Jane Freilicher died on Dec. 9 at home in New York City of complications of pneumonia. She was 90.

Key to the East Hampton's ability to enact local airport rules is maintaining a degree of autonomy by eschewing new federal grants. With the grants come obligations to operate the airport according to F.A.A. rules.

As of Wednesday morning, Henry Sjoman was listed in critical condition and John Veitch in serious condition, according to a Stony Brook University Hospital spokeswoman. They were flown there for treatment on Sunday.

A proposed offshore wind farm to be situated 30 miles east of Montauk is in doubt in the wake of the Long Island Power Authority's decision on Wednesday to reject the proposed installation.

Henry O. Sjoman, 24, and John R. Veitch, 31, are listed in critical, but stable, conditions at Stony Brook University Hospital after they suffered serious injuries, East Hampton Town police said Monday.

A driver who struck and killed a Scottish golf caddy bicycling home from his first day of work in Southampton in May pleaded guilty on Friday to two felony charges and will be sentenced on Feb. 3.

East Hampton Town announced Thursday that it had won a $250,000 grant from New York State to develop a coastal assessment and resiliency plan.