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Southampton Town detectives suspect arson as the cause of a fire that destroyed most of a historic Sagaponack house early Monday morning.

The owners of the former East Deck Motel in Montauk, who had proposed a private club there, asked on Friday to postpone a scheduled appearance before the East Hampton Town Planning Board last night to give the town the chance to negotiate a possible purchase of the property.

A helicopter transported the injured man to Stony Brook University Hospital on Wednesday afternoon.

A fire broke out in the basement of a house on 11th Street in Springs Wednesday morning, causing smoke damage throughout the structure.

A box truck slammed into the Long Island Rail Road overpass on Monday morning.

A large commerical lawn mower erupted in flames while it was being used on an expansive Bridgehampton estate Friday afternoon.

A proposed East Hampton Town rental registry drew a number of property owners to the Amagansett Citizens Advisory Committee’s meeting on Monday, many of them concerned about its potential impact.

The East Hampton Village Board unanimously voted in favor of a resolution last Thursday urging the town board to adopt a comprehensive aircraft noise-limitation policy.

Last Thursday, Sgt. Paul Fabiano walked out of Sag Harbor Village police headquarters for the final time to a small procession including a bagpiper, fellow officers, and community members.

What was once a schoolroom for young gentlewomen is now the office of the mayor of East Hampton Village.

The East Hampton Town Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to deny an application for a rock revetment on the beach at Gardiner’s Bay near the end of Louse Point.

Starting this month, South Fork students will have access to a greater array of mental health offerings than ever before.

The Village Preservation Society of East Hampton handed the East Hampton Village Board $100,000 last Thursday, which it had raised to spay deer, a program it had suggested.

The first step in what is expected to be a long process of site plan review of a controversial plan to convert the old East Deck Motel at Ditch Plain, Montauk, into a private club is scheduled to begin.

Firefighters worked for over three hours battling a Bridgehampton house fire believed to have erupted after a lightning strike during a storm in the early morning hours on Sunday.

Hope and pessimism mingled in roughly equal measure at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons on Monday morning as pro-Israel panelists from the worlds of media and academia discussed the seven-week war in Gaza.

Tom Ferreira’s attorneys claim they can prove that a conspiracy took place to force his business off his property.

Three hundred and eighty-five people from both the North and South Forks made plenty of noise last week at an East Hampton Town Board forum on aircraft noise.

The body of Carl Darenberg was found in Montauk Harbor Monday morning not far from the Montauk Marine Basin, which has been in his family for nearly 60 years.

Four East Hampton Village police cars and several officers on foot converged on Herrick Park Sunday morning in response to an apparent altercation between Alec Baldwin and a photographer who had been trailing the actor and his wife and 1-year-old daughter.

East Hampton Town police arrested a 21-year-old Friday on charges stemming from an alleged sexual encounter with a 16-year-old girl.

A plan for an aquatic center and multipurpose space at the Montauk Playhouse Community Center, which has been in the works for almost eight years, has been completely revised and the cost of its construction substantially reduced, from $10 million to $7 million.

An eroding shoreline has four property owners asking the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals for the right to extend an existing revetment 560 feet south to protect their Louse Point Road houses.

East Hampton Town announced Tuesday that it has won a $9.9 million federal grant to buy low-lying properties in the Lazy Point area of Amagansett, under a program designed to eliminate or prevent development in areas prone to severe flooding.

The liquor license for Cyril’s Fish House on Napeague may have been canceled, but the party goes on, according to a statement from Dianne LeVerrier, attorney for the ownership groups of both the restaurant and the land it sits on.

A 60-year-old man suffered a heart attack aboard a boat about one mile off Montauk Inlet on Thursday morning.

Julia Bovey, the director of the New York State Department of Public Service’s Long Island office, got some thanks on Tuesday night for responding to calls for an East Hampton hearing on PSEG-Long Island’s long-range plan — and then she got an earful.

John W. Templeman pleaded guilty Monday in East Hampton Town Justice Court to six charges stemming from allegedly rolling over a house he owns in Montauk for excessive short-term rentals, and has canceled all remaining bookings for the year, the town said.

East Hampton Town announced Tuesday that it has won a $9.9 million federal grant to buy low-lying properties along the water in Lazy Point, Amagansett.

The 39th annual Hampton Classic Horse Show in Bridgehampton, a week of equestrian, social, and commercial activities, will gallop to a start on Sunday.