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Some of East Hampton Town’s efforts to preserve land have taken a new tack lately, honing in on environmentally sensitive or threatened areas and seeking to prevent development or even remove houses

East Hampton Town has proposed a $10 million deal to buy nearly all of an Amagansett site where a proposed 79-unit luxury housing development for those 55 and older had been met with a storm of opposition.

An East Hampton woman has taken it upon herself to find a permanent home for a pit bull lab mix that is stuck in a Bronx kennel.

Thomas Ravenel, a former South Carolina state treasurer, pleaded guilty in East Hampton Town Justice Court Wednesday to a misdemeanor count of driving while intoxicated stemming from a July arrest in East Hampton Village.

The move toward fulfilling the town’s energy needs from renewable sources is true to a policy statement the committee drafted and the town adopted last year

Landscapers and builders came out in force on Friday to criticize an East Hampton Village proposal to curtail noise from construction and commercial landscaping equipment

Road work on Montauk Highway from the intersection of County Road 39 in Southampton to the intersection of Stephen Hand’s Path in East Hampton is now set begin on Monday.

The East Hampton Town Board has put in place a new system for review of mass-gathering permit requests

A proposal to ban alcohol within 2,500 feet of lifeguarded areas at Indian Wells and Atlantic Avenue Beaches in Amagansett while guards are on duty drew strong opposition from the East Hampton Town Trustees.

The East Hampton School Board decided during a budget workshop Tuesday evening to go above the state-mandated 2-percent cap on tax levy increases, meaning 60 percent of voters will have to approve the 2014-15 budget for it to pass in May.

Starting Tuesday, the Amagansett Fire District will institute a paid emergency medical service program, the second in the Town of East Hampton

An outdoor pizza oven sparked a grass fire that quickly spread to a building at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton on a windy Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.

"Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon made fun of himself while also thanking Wainscott resident Elisha Osborn, the owner of a towing company who pulled him off a Sagaponack beach.

A passerby saw flames in the woods on Buckskill Road early this morning, calling out the East Hampton Fire Department to extinguish a brush fire.

A proposed zoning law in East Hampton Town could limit the locations of new chain stores and chain restaurants, requiring their owners to first obtain special permits from the planning board

East Hampton residents, and the elected officials who took up their cause, have obtained a commitment from PSEG Long Island to re-examine its plans and map out a way to lay six miles of high-voltage electrical transmission line underground

Mental health issues have assumed unprecedented urgency for school officials tasked with ensuring the safety and well-being of students

What began as a grassroots effort late last year seeking the Congressional Medal of Honor for a fallen Sag Harbor Marine has now become a piece of Congressional legislation

Eight weeks of coddling in the heat of the hatchery, and they’re ready.

"Career criminal" takes plea deal after he was caught stealing a camera from a truck in Amagansett just last week.

The particulars of an age-old scenario was played out at an architectural review board hearing in Southampton Village last week. Adrenaline in the room was nearly palpable as a parade of well-heeled citizens streamed into Village Hall. At issue was Joe Farrell’s proposal to erect a 5,135-square-foot house on Hill Street

Representative Tim Bishop introduced a bill Thursday requesting presidential review to determine whether Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan C. Haerter and Coporal Jonathan Yale are eligible for the military's highest award.

Moshe A. Stephens held without bail due to two prior felony convictions after the East End Drug Task Force picked him up on drug sale charges.

A state judge has lifted a restraining order allowing boulders to be placed on beach — over trustees' objections.

A 71-year-old artist died after being trapped in a fire that consumed his house at 198 Narrow Lane East in Sagaponack, opposite the entrance to the Wolffer Estate Stables, early Saturday morning

Fire departments responded Wednesday night to a fire believed to be electrical in nature at an unoccupied house on the corner of Harrison Street and Robeson Boulevard.

The procedures and structures implemented last year to control congestion and rowdy behavior at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett will be modified for the coming summer

The quality of many East Hampton Town waterways is excellent, according to recent testing, but problems in Three Mile Harbor and Georgica Pond require particular attention.

Nothing declares more definitively that the South Fork winter is really and truly over than the annual Montauk Friends of Erin St. Patrick's Day parade, which will be held this year on March 23, beginning at 11:30 a.m.

High-voltage electrical transmission lines in East Hampton Town could be buried with 16 months if a way to finance the underground project is worked out, David Daly, the president and C.O.O. of PSEG Long Island promised on Friday.