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Brave souls will descend en masse on Main Beach on New Year's Day for the annual Polar Bear Plunge, a bracing event the $40 entry fee of which benefits the East Hampton Food Pantry. There's another plunge, too, off Beach Lane in Wainscott.

Patchita Tennant stood silent until the foreman of the jury finished reading the verdict: not guilty on attempted murder and first-degree assault charges in the shooting of her longtime boyfriend, Andrew Mitchell. 

Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone on Sunday afternoon announced in a local emergency order that schools across the county will close for two weeks beginning Monday, March 16.

A construction worker fell from scaffolding at least two stories high on Friday afternoon in Montauk and died, East Hampton Town police said.

“I don’t know if I would have been a decent architect,” the film composer Carter Burwell recently mused, sitting in his private studio on the Atlantic Ocean, east of Amagansett. But his interests all come together in architecture.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons has assembled a variety of joyful music drawn from the 19th century to the present for its holiday concert, “ ’Tis the Season: Offerings of Celebration and Renewal Old and New,” which will have two performances on Sunday at the Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church.

Some of the South Fork’s most prominent elected officials, a group of nine women who hold public office here, came together last Thursday for a bipartisan call to action. Their goal was to inspire a demographic that may not yet identify with a particular party line — high school girls — to someday run for office.

As neighbors get buried lines in East Hampton Village, this couple will lose their "only piece of blue sky."

After news of John James Usma-Quintero’s death reached Colombia, many were angry that the driver had been let out on such low bail. “We don’t want any other family to go through this pain,” his brother said.

The rumors of a lousy scallop season appear likely to be true, according to The Star's fishing columnist, whose early-season reconnaissance mission turned up almost nothing in all of his usual haunts.

As part of East Hampton Town’s planned upgrade of its emergency communications system, a new tower has been proposed for Springs, and the question of where it should be installed was the subject of a heated back-and-forth at the town board meeting last Thursday.

In a move it described as precautionary, the Suffolk County Health Department announced on Monday that it will conduct a private well survey in an area surrounding the closed landfill and at least two commercial composting or mulching operations along the Springs-Fireplace Road corridor in East Hampton and Springs.

The first day of school on Sept. 4 brought a few more students to some local schools than there were this time a year ago, while others experienced a decline in enrollment. Officials across the public schools say the numbers will change before they report official data to New York State in October.

The woman accused of shooting her child's father inside their Flanders home and then taking off with their 3-year-old, causing police to issue an Amber Alert, was the victim of domestic abuse, her criminal defense attorney claims. 

Patchita Tennant, who worked in East Hampton, has been charged with two felonies in the shooting of her 3-year-old child's father in Flanders.

On Aug. 28, Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio brought his long-shot bid for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president to East Hampton, where for around two hours he spoke on topics both conventional and esoteric.

Britta Steilmann, who had visited the East End for almost half a century before settling here 24 years ago, is adept both as a manager who thinks creatively and a designer of living spaces.

The Calvary Baptist Church on Spinner Lane in East Hampton held its annual barbecue on Sunday and it was a gloriously beautiful day.

In these dark times of global unrest and uncertainty, Guild Hall has decided to bring a little light into at least our corner of the world with “Sunny Days,” an exhibition of work by Ugo Rondinone, a renowned Swiss-born artist with a residence in Mattituck.

Long after William Kiraizis of Springs retired from the William Floyd High School, his marine science lesson comes full circle.

Visitors to the Montauk Lighthouse may not notice it yet, but a tower restoration expected to cost just shy of $1.1 million is in its early stages this summer, as the Montauk Historical Society committee that oversees the national historic landmark works to raise the money to complete the project by 2021.

A real estate broker with a history of drunken driving-related arrests, including one for boating while intoxicated just last week, has been charged in connection with the crash in Bridgehampton on Tuesday that sent a mother and young child to the hospital. 

A portion of Montauk Highway between Snake Hollow Road and Newlight Lane has been shut down while Southampton Town police investigate the two-car crash, and traffic is being diverted down Newlight Lane and Snake Hollow Road.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced on Thursday that Sunrise Wind, a joint venture of the Danish energy company Orsted and the Connecticut company Eversource, and Empire Wind, proposed by the Norwegian company Equinor, have each been awarded contracts to develop offshore wind farms — one of them some 30 miles east of Montauk.

Tenia Campbell, the Medford mother accused of killing her twin daughters, intentionally suffocated them and drove to Montauk with their bodies in the car, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said yesterday at her arraignment on upgraded charges that include first-degree murder.

Nancy Goroff, chairwoman of the university's chemistry department, aims to face Representative Lee Zeldin next year on the Democratic ticket.

More than six years after the project was proposed, Hook Mill Estates, a subdivision with 11 house lots on 10.5 acres off Accabonac Road in East Hampton Village, will soon be on the market.

East Hampton High School's class of 2019 graduated on Friday, and this group of seniors, according to Adam Fine, the high school principal, is particularly well equipped to deal with the challenges life brings them next.

The 2-year-olds, Jasmin and Jaida Campbell, were likely dead before their mother, Tenia Campbell, now charged with their murder, was found in Montauk with them strapped in their car seats, Suffolk County police said. 

Update, June 27, 11:30 p.m.: A Medford mother was charged with the murder of her twin 2-year-old daughters, Suffolk County police announced late Thursday night. Tenia Campbell, 24, was taken into custody in Montauk County Park earlier that afternoon.