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At Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting, Police Chief Michael Tracey recognized members of his department and of the village volunteer ambulance service who had recently saved two lives.

Item of the Week From the East Hampton Library Long Island Collection

Community members joined state, town, and village officials to celebrate the official opening of Steinbeck Park in Sag Harbor on Friday morning in a ceremony that culminated with the signing of an inter-municipal agreement transferring management of the park from Southampton Town, which purchased the property in July, to Sag Harbor Village. 

Seeking to fill a 6,420-square-foot pond that lies 70 feet from a section of Georgica Pond, the owner of 26 La Forest Lane asked the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday for a freshwater wetlands permit.

Generational solidarity is essential to addressing the climate emergency civilization faces, according to the teenage and adult panelists at the first Hamptons Institute panel discussion of 2019, “The Youth Climate Movement Could Save the Planet,” on Aug. 5 at Guild Hall in East Hampton.

After “one of the most egregious violations of a conservation easement in the trust’s 36-year history,” the Peconic Land Trust won a temporary restraining order last Thursday to stop tree cutting on nearly six acres of reserved land.

Fresh from their appearance at the Fisherman’s Fair on Saturday on the grounds of Ashawagh Hall in Springs, the East Hampton Town Trustees have set Oct. 13 as the date of their annual Largest Clam Contest.

Southampton Town Supervisor Jay Schneiderman urged Sag Harbor Village Mayor Kathleen Mulcahy last Thursday to draw up a budget and timeline quickly for the development of the village’s proposed John Steinbeck Waterfront Park.

To many residents, the East Hampton Library means a maze of books and helpful librarians tucked into gorgeous architecture, with $1 coffee to boot. Behind the stacks, a little secret helps make it all possible: Amazon.

The East Hampton Chamber of Commerce will hold its first summer street fair in East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

How exactly did one take a selfie without a mirror before the advent of the smartphone?

East Hampton straddled two worlds in the summer of 1969. In one of them there was Vietnam, the moonwalk, Woodstock, the Manson murders, Stonewall, the civil rights movement, and war protesters. In the other world, a small beachfront town was still small enough that almost everyone knew everyone else, for nine months of the year anyway.