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The East Hampton Village Board will unveil a plan for a redesign of Herrick Park that features more formalized entrances, reconfigured ball fields, and new pathways and children's play areas next Thursday morning. Later that day, the public will get a chance to weigh in on the proposal at a special 5:30 p.m. hearing to be held at the East Hampton Middle School auditorium.

To mark the 100th anniversary of the incorporation of East Hampton Village, there will be a series of events in 2020, beginning in January with the unveiling of a new village seal and culminating with a centennial parade and other festivities on Sept. 26.

There are rules of etiquette, experts say, when hosting or attending a holiday dinner party, or a dinner party for any occasion, really.

Bob and Liz Pucci of East Hampton have announced the engagement of their son Joseph Robert Pucci to Kathyrn Eileen Markey, a daughter of Jay and Kerry Markey of Chelmsford, Mass.

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For the last 150 years, the Wainscott Chapel has been the charge of the Wainscott Sewing Society to manage and care for the building — from the war memorial out front to the privy out back, and everything inside the walls in between.

Decades ago, the times were different — along with the cost of food, long-distance phone calls, rug cleaning, and table settings.

The East Hampton Village Board has authorized a law firm to file suit on its behalf against opioid manufacturers and distributors.

A small minke whale was found stranded in Northwest Creek in East Hampton Thursday morning and later died just as rescuers arrived to help it.  

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The owner of Petit Bleu, a children’s store in East Hampton Village, who was cited by code enforcement earlier this month for placing a stuffed golden retriever at the entrance to her shop, wants the business community to band together to change the village’s onerous regulations.

Alex Miller was heading home think-ing about dinner on the evening of May 14 when he decided to stop at Stuart’s Seafood Market, an Amagansett fa-vorite. He bought some cedar plank salmon and coleslaw. As an afterthought, he said, “Why don’t you give me a dozen littleneck clams — medium-sized little-necks?” 

At home in Springs, he shucked them— half the quahogs were from the shell-fish hatchery and the other half from the wild (he could tell by the striped pattern on the shell). On the 11th wild clam, something he thought was a marble fell out.

A humpback whale was found dead in the surf at Halsey Neck Lane in Southampton Village on Thursday morning. 

The East Hampton Village Board, meeting last Thursday, considered proposals to hold an outdoor Christmas market on Newtown Lane in December, and to install high-tech ticket dispensers in village parking lots.

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

An application from the Thomas and Mary Nimmo Moran Studio for variances and permissions to allow retail sales, hold events for more than 50 people, install path lighting, and for an additional parking area came before the Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

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National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo, is a nonprofit organization that provides educational resources and encouragement in November as thousands of people across the world take on the challenge of writing a 50,000-word story in 30 days.

Patrick and Joan Lyons of Three Mile Harbor-Hog Creek Road in Springs have announced the engagement of their daughter Jillian Lyons to Jonathan Gil, the son of Omar and Carmen Gil of Miami.

Baymen and lovers of shellfish can hold on to hope that East Hampton waters will offer an abundant crop of bay scallops when they open to the annual harvest on Sunday, but if the first days’ harvest in state waters is an indication, they will be disappointed.

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Thinking about the passage of time coupled with the start of the school year highlights how important it is to create a plan for saving for your child’s or grandchild’s education. 

Will WNET, America’s flagship PBS station, acquire WPPB-FM, a National Public Radio member station based in Southampton? Maybe, and maybe not.

Lori Hubbard and Jim Esposito are not used to asking for help. But when they did — on behalf of their 15-year-old son, Jimmy, who has a balance disorder, hearing loss, speech delays, and other conditions — the community answered.

Macmillan Publishers, which produces work by some of the most popular authors, has announced an embargo on e-books for libraries. The limits will be particularly acute in Suffolk County.

A story in which Village Mayor Paul F. Rickenbach Jr. announced political appointments for after he resigns on Dec. 31 has led to an accusation of dirty politicking.

The Sag Harbor Village Board discussed the current state of the village and its plans to address water quality, parking, and the development of the John Steinbeck Waterfront Park at its first weekend work session on Saturday.

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Harry Macklowe, a billionaire real estate developer, admitted to the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday that he had built several structures at his Georgica Pond-front property at 64 West End Road without a permit, and cleared wetland vegetation there as well.

The East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals made it clear on Friday that it will deny an application from the owners of an oceanfront property at 33 Lily Pond Lane to tear down a house in a coastal erosion hazard area and construct a new one. An official determination will be issued at a future board meeting.