The nonprofit Southampton Playhouse has established itself as not only a showcase for first-run features and film classics, but as a resource featuring a diversity of community-friendly programs.

August Gladstone, a multitalented screenwriter, poet, musician, and songwriter, will perform music from his upcoming album and recent EP at Sag Harbor's Masonic Temple.

Louis John Arceri, known as LJ, died at home on Bow Oarsman’s Road in East Hampton on Nov. 30. He was 69.

Roger G. Lang, an executive with Federated Department Stores since the 1960s, died on Nov. 28 at Peconic Landing in Greenport. An East Hampton resident since 1973, he was 83 years old.

The Dredge Oyster Bay was permanently damaged after encountering a "really big rock" in the channel, and a new dredge, the Scrod II, has been called in to relieve it. The Army Corps of Engineers’ project is still on schedule, despite the many delays since it began just over a month ago.

The East Hampton Town Police Department says it is ready to take on dispatch responsibilities starting in January when it assumes responsibilities from East Hampton Village and becomes the primary Public Safety Answering Point, or P.S.A.P., in the town.

East Hampton Town appears to have stepped down in a fight against a Further Lane homeowner who neighbors say is violating a decades-old scenic easement on their lands.

A proposal by owners of the former Rick’s Crabby Cowboy Cafe in Montauk to double the occupancy of an outdoor bar area on the East Lake Drive property got some pushback at a recent East Hampton Town Planning Board meeting.