The challenges were many for the scores of candidates seeking to fill 38 slots on the Democratic Committee when they gathered signatures between late February and early April as the June 23 primary looms.

The governor announced that the state is requesting a federal disaster designation for Suffolk aquaculture after the fierce winter, but commercial fishermen say not so fast.

A house on Bay View Avenue in Amagansett, infamous for a temporary wall of beach-blocking geocubes that stayed for years, was before the town Z.B.A. as its owners presented an environmental review of a plan to build a permanent 108-foot-long rock revetment.

Long-discussed improvements to a rest stop on the south side of Montauk Highway at the headwaters of Georgica Pond in Wainscott could be complete this time next year, as this week the town board agreed to a plan.