Facelift For Highway
First it was a sprinkling of neon-orange road cones and signs announcing "Road Work 1000 Ft." Then the crews began to arrive, and this week the roar of the graders and the smell of fresh tar permeated the normally unencumbered stretch of Route 27 west of East Hampton Village.

Double The School - If Taxpayers Approve
The Bridgehampton School will embark on the biggest building project in the district's history, a $6 million addition and renovation that will nearly double the school's size, if taxpayers approve the proposed 1998-99 budget next month.

Not Woodstock: Fishstock
Southampton has its "All for the Sea" benefit concert, Montauk had its "Back at the Ranch," and if Gene Hamilton has his way, Amagansett will soon have "Fishstock," a fund-raising concert for the East Hampton Town shellfish hatchery.

Teens Hurt In Crash
An accident involving a 14-year-old driver and possibly alcohol sent three young teenagers to the hospital Sunday afternoon. Charges against the underaged driver are pending from the East Hampton Town Police Department's Juvenile Aid Bureau.

Voyagers In Luxury
Trains, planes, automobiles - and now, Hampton Voyager.

BELLA ABZUG
Bella Abzug, Congresswoman, feminist, environmentalist, lawyer, part-time resident of Noyac, and outspoken activist for any number of left-wing causes, died on Tuesday at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Manhattan.

HILDA MORLEY, POET WAS 81
Hilda Morley, a widely honored poet and longtime Sag Harbor resident who moved to England last year, died at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead Heath, London, on March 23, of liver failure following a fall in her house.