It’s official — the newest member of the Sag Harbor Village Police Department is an adorable yellow lab named Gillies, who was sworn in as a police therapy dog this week.

Lynn V. Marrapodi, a fashion professional turned artist, died on May 3 of complications following open heart surgery at N.Y.U. Langone Hospital in Manhattan. A former resident of East Hampton and Amagansett, she was 79.

Alison Seiffer of Springs, an illustrator whose worked appeared The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and who designed posters for the Rell Sunn surf contest in Montauk, died on May 17 of complications of pancreatic cancer. She was 64.

With less than a month before the primary that will provide the Democratic Party with its nominee for East Hampton Town supervisor, both candidates are similarly funded.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board will hold a public hearing Wednesday on the proposed Springs Brewery, at 847 Springs-Fireplace Road.

A two-year-old case about a crowing rooster in Springs has finally been dismissed, with prejudice. “If the town wants to prohibit (or otherwise regulate) noise from roosters, or any other livestock, they need to do so explicitly in their local code,” wrote East Hampton Town Justice David Filer.

In the latest twist to a long-running dispute between East Hampton Town and Marc Rowan, who owns Duryea’s Lobster Deck in Montauk, a New York State Supreme Court judge has granted the town’s motion to vacate a 2019 stipulation of settlement with Mr. Rowan, and directed that the status quo be maintained pending determination of the various proceedings and appeals before the court.

Bamboo and cemeteries make terrible bedfellows, and Most Holy Trinity Cemetery on Cedar Street has a burgeoning bamboo problem.

The East Hampton Town Board unanimously supported the acquisition of 134 Second House Road in Montauk, better known as the Pathfinder Country Day Camp, earlier this month.

As reports of crimes of a sexual nature have apparently increased, those cases have drawn attention — not only because of their brutality, but also because allegations of abuse strike at deeply held assumptions about safety in a place that has seen itself as insulated from such offenses.

A Brooklyn woman who came here to visit a friend for the weekend instead spent the weekend in jail after East Hampton Village police recovered a large number of items stolen from the Ralph Lauren Double RL clothing store on Main Street and arrested the woman they say stole them all.

What if Robin Hood were a girl? What if he weren’t just any girl, but was actually Maid Marian in disguise? That’s the premise behind “Marian, or the True Tale of Robin Hood: Teen Edition,” a play by Adam Szymkowicz that South Fork Performing Arts is taking on this weekend at Guild Hall.

Powerful lessons took center stage at the second installment of “Bonac Beyond the Bell,” a speaker series hosted by the East Hampton Parent Teacher Student Association. The guests last Thursday were John Aldridge and Anthony Sosinski, lifelong friends and commercial fishermen who wrote the book “A Speck in the Sea,” about Mr. Aldridge’s survival after falling off their boat, the Anna Mary, in Montauk back in 2013.

Scholarship, service, leadership, character, and citizenship -- 22 students at the Springs School will now be upholding those pillars, having been part of the school’s first-ever National Junior Honor Society induction on May 20.

For young people and families this week, there's an open house at the Watermill Center and a pollinator program at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum, both on Saturday.

Memorial Day weekend was a washout at East Hampton Village’s vaunted beaches, but inclement weather did not dampen the enthusiasm felt by Sean Daly for his new role as the village’s chief lifeguard, succeeding Drew Smith.

Elizabeth Parsons Edwards (1874-1943), seen in this undated photo, worked her family farm on Fireplace Road, canning vegetables and making everything from butter to clothing to music.

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A sixth grader in the Sag Harbor School District died Wednesday in a rafting accident on the Lehigh River in Pennsylvania while on the annual class trip to the Poconos. The tragedy was confirmed by Jeff Nichols, the district superintendent, just before 11 p.m.

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