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A small bag of methamphetamine in rock form was found in a parking lot at the John M. Marshall Elementary School in East Hampton Village.

About a year after Dr. Robert Brisbane joined the Amagansett School he leaves for the Roosevelt School District.

An 11-year-old from Brooklyn was found dead at the bottom of a swimming pool on Route 114 in East Hampton Sunday afternoon, police said.

A landscaper working on a Montauk property was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital today in serious condition after the large riding mower he was operating flipped over and landed on top of him.

A multi-thousand-person bike ride planned for Saturday that East Hampton officials had sought to prevent will go on in a reduced form after a settlement was reached between its organizer and East Hampton Town on Friday.

The Army Corps of Engineers expects to issue a report in early 2016 on a Lake Montauk dredging project that could include rebuilding beaches to the west of the harbor inlet.

“Don’t use the B word,” said Gene Stilwell, an agent at Town and Country Real Estate who specified the preferred real estate term: “lower level.”

The Springs Fire Department responded a vehicle fire, which turned out to be a camper on fire, on Wednesday morning.

The East Hampton Town police announced this week that they have launched both a Facebook page and a Twitter account in order to increase communication with the public.

Jason Lee, the former Goldman-Sachs managing director who was arrested last summer in East Hampton on charges that he raped a 20-year-old Irish student, was ordered Friday by New York Supreme Court Justice Barbara R. Kahn to refrain from any further contact with the woman, including through third parties.

A man who allegedly attacked another man with a machete in Springs Monday evening was released from East Hampton Town police custody yesterday after his family posted $5,000 bail.

The teachers of the Montauk School, who have embraced the Common Core, the national education standard for students from kindergarten through 12th grade, seemed to have swayed a large group of parents and some board members to support it.

Several changes are proposed to the “smart lighting” code adopted in 2006, though the code itself will largely remain intact. East Hampton Town’s outdoor lighting regulations will be discussed at Town Hall next Thursday night.

East Hampton Village police arrested a New York man Sunday morning after he reportedly left the scene of an accident near Hook Mill.

Two Springs men ended up in Stony Brook University Hospital Monday night after a fight on Clinton Street in Springs. Capt. Chris Anderson of the East Hampton Town Police Department said one of the men swung a machete at the other, inflicting "several serious wounds to his torso."

The Medevac helicopter was called in after a motorcycle accident in Montauk on Monday evening.

The three occupants of a Mercedes involved in a crash at about 4 a.m. Saturday morning in Amagansett were able to walk away from the vehicle unhurt, despite the fact that the car flipped over, landing on top of a parked truck, then flipped through the air again, landing back on its tires.

It's Memorial Day weekend, and everyone it seems has headed east, including a man who spent four months in jail in 2012 for making himself at home in the rap mogul Sean Combs's Northwest Woods house without Diddy's permission.

Jason Lee, the former Goldman-Sachs managing director who was arrested last summer in East Hampton on charges that he raped a 20-year-old Irish student, was ordered today to refrain from any further contact with the woman.

Cyril's Fish House, the popular roadside restaurant on the Napeague stretch, has received the okay to open this weekend, having cleared its final legal hurdle today in New York State Supreme Court.

With just days until the Memorial Day weekend, the Long Island Rail Road worked furiously to repair damage to an overpass in East Hampton after a garbage truck slammed into it on Tuesday morning, disrupting service any farther east for 32 hours.

A short circuit in underground electrical wires caused a brush fire and then a fire in a below-grade generator at a Sagaponack house on Monday afternoon.

Thirty minutes after the polls had closed, Rich Burns, the superintendent, walked back into the district office with a triumphant thumbs up — 73 percent of voters had approved the $65 million spending proposal, voting 492 to 184.

The East Hampton Airport could be self-sustaining without Federal Aviation Administration dollars, with enough income over the next five years to take on additional debt for repairs, an airport finance subcommittee has told the East Hampton Town Board.

“They’re enjoying their vacation time, or the solitude of sitting in a quaint area of our village. It looks good for the village itself.”

In Bridgehampton, one of the two districts on the South Fork seeking to pierce the tax cap, voters said no to a $12.3 million spending plan that carried an 8.8-percent increase in the tax levy for the 2014-15 school year.

The unofficial start of summer kicks off this weekend with several changes in the strategy and tactics of the East Hampton Town Police Department.

From the low end to the high, the rental season is off to a slow start, or so brokers say. Some blame it on the weather, others on the strong sales market.

New electric transmission lines in East Hampton are needed to “ensure reliability of the electric system,” the State Department of Public Service has concluded following its review of projects here and in North Hempstead.

A garbage truck slammed into the North Main Street railroad overpass on Tuesday morning, shutting down train service east of East Hampton Village and backing up traffic.