The Southampton Town Police Department detectives' division is seeking information about booby traps set on a nature trail in Sag Harbor that is popular among all-terrain vehicle and dirt bike riders, though the trails' use for those activities is not permitted.
Emergency personnel were searching Tuesday afternoon for a missing swimmer off the ocean beach at the Windward Shores resort on Napeague.
PSEG-Long Island announced Monday that it will reimburse customers for any food and medicines that spoiled during the power outage that affected hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers earlier this month when Tropical Storm Isaias passed over the Island.
As directed by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Aug. 7, local school districts are holding information sessions to give parents and guardians a chance to ask questions about their reopening plans.
After following up on a weekend scare in which a child tested positive for Covid-19 on Friday, summer camp administrators at the Hayground School, in consultation with the Suffolk County Department of Health Services, concluded the camp can safely continue running this week.
When the Montauk Brewing Company declared its support for the Black Lives Matter movement on a chalkboard outside its tasting room in June, initial reactions were positive, but a delayed backlash in the form of a new Facebook group called Defund Montauk Brewing Company emerged earlier this week and by Sunday had over 20,000 members.
Big Reed Pond in Montauk is beset with a bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, as is the Georgica Cove section of Georgica Pond in East Hampton, and the southern end of Montauk's Fort Pond is at high risk of a bloom, according to Concerned Citizens of Montauk.
Jacqueline Albert Simon, a political science journalist, college professor, and philanthropist who was a summer and weekend resident of East Hampton for more than 60 years, died on Monday in New York City at the age of 98. She had been ill with cancer for seven months.
The Animal Rescue Fund, a fixture of the East End community since 1974 that has adopted out more than 29,000 cats and dogs since its inception, is calling on people to donate pet food.
The most recent test of the air quality at the Manor House complex, a new affordable housing development on Accabonac Road in East Hampton, once again found elevated levels of volatile organic compounds in the units' basements, according to Tom Ruhle, director of the town's office of housing and community development.
