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East Hampton Town to consider the historic status of a former property of James Brooks and Charlotte Park, painters who moved a cottage from the shore of Fort Pond in Montauk in the 1950s to an 11-acre property on Neck Path in Springs.

The Amagansett Fire Department’s celebration will start at noon Saturday with activities for all ages including rides, games, music, food, proclamations, presentations, and the awarding of parade participation trophies.

In an effort to give code enforcement officers a better basis to cite those flouting the law, proposed changes to the East Hampton Town code would address businesses illegally operating in residential zones by clarifying the type of trucks and equipment that may be parked at houses.

If the East Hampton Village Board gets its collective wish, the Gardiner home lot at 36 James Lane, a 3.7-acre parcel that was put up for sale by Olney Mairs Gardiner last fall, will be purchased by the Town of East Hampton using the community preservation fund.

Shock waves went through the East Hampton School Board meeting Tuesday night when it was learned that Patricia Hope, one of the board’s most outspoken members, had resigned.

The effects of airplane and helicopter noise on those living under flight paths was a subject at an East Hampton Town Board meeting last Thursday night, just as a busy summer holiday weekend got under way

The Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust is making plans for a project that will provide what officials say is desperately needed work force housing the Sag Harbor School District.

A motorcyclist was seriously injured Saturday morning after a reported collision with a bus at the intersection of Main Street and Buell Lane in East Hampton Village. 

East Hampton Village police detectives are investigating the crash, which took place at 11:12 a.m.  

Coast Guard Station Montauk rescued a 39-foot boat with two people aboard when they ran into trouble in building seas at the end of its voyage from Bermuda to Connecticut on the Fourth of July.

A bicyclist was rushed to Southampton Hospital on Thursday afternoon after being struck by a vehicle whose driver, police said, was high on an unspecified drug at the time.

Safety first, and more than ever, during this hurricane and tropical storm season, which began in the Atlantic on June 1 and will last until Nov. 30.

Southampton Town police arrested a Manhattan real estate developer Wednesday at the eastbound Hampton Jitney stop in Bridgehampton after he picked up a package sent from New York.

Independence Day will go off with a bang, but one day later in Montauk and Southampton.

The modest houses on Huntington Crossway in Bridgehampton stand in stark contrast to much of the hamlet, where the average house price is $2.3 million.

A Montauk veteran of the war in Afghanistan was arrested on June 25 as part of the town’s crackdown on taxi drivers and charged with possession of a forged government-issued document, a felony.

Public Service Department asks how $24 million project might be amortized

An agreement between the Suffolk County Parks Department and the Long Island Chapter of the United States Lighthouse Society will allow the long hoped for restoration of the Cedar Island Lighthouse.

East Hampton Town’s community preservation fund, which receives the 2-percent tax on most real estate transfers, is flush and being well managed, according to a report given to the town board on Tuesday.

The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation saved a leatherback sea turtle that was entangled in a lobster trap a mile offshore on Sunday afternoon around 5.

A fire that may have started on the outside of a house traveled into the attic before firefighters arrived on Tuesday evening.

The officer, who suffered a knee injury during the pursuit, finally stopped the fleeing man by discharging his Taser.

Trustees continue to object to provisions in prohibition, and ask for a ‘compromise.’

The East Hampton Library’s new 6,800-square-foot children’s addition was unveiled on Saturday morning.

If writers have a voice, painters a vision, and fashion designers a recognizable style, it stands to reason that builders also have their own signature look.

Large quantities of nitrogen are leaching from onsite disposal systems into waterways on the South Fork.

The East End Ambulance Coalition is proposing an East End Responder Program that would be spread over all six districts as a single territory.

Flames were "blowing through the roof" of a house on Hayground Road in Water Mill when firefighters arrived Thursday afternoon.

Fireworks on the South Fork do not just begin and end with the Fourth of July. Instead, appreciative crowds are treated to a series of spectacles that last until Labor Day weekend.

A visitor from Connecticut was arrested on Saturday night on a drunken-driving charge after an accident that sent a motorcycle rider to the hospital with severe injuries.

Thiele bill requiring public hearings and hard look at non-lethal means for addressing swam population passes New York State House and Senate.