Plans for 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue, which the developer Jeremy Morton is set to purchase, include additional second-story space and new facades for both buildings

Plans for 2 Main Street and 22 Long Island Avenue, which the developer Jeremy Morton is set to purchase, include additional second-story space and new facades for both buildings

At the next Sag Harbor School Board meeting in November, school administrators said this week, they will be bringing a proposed policy change to the board: removing the current class ranking system and replacing it with a Latin honors system beginning with next year’s senior class.

From International Baccalaureate tests to New York State's Regents exams and other standardized assessments, students in the Sag Harbor School District posted excellent scores in the 2023-24 school year.

One of the many things that makes Springs School special is the field trips teachers and their students go on. One particular field trip occurred recently in third grade. Students went to the Coast Guard Station in Montauk to learn about all of the important jobs the Coast Guard does.

Halloween is technically still a week away, but the fun for kids and teens has already begun in East Hampton, Sag Harbor, Water Mill, and other nearby places.

Construction of a 100-foot cellphone tower behind Sagaponack Village Hall has begun, but residents of the tiny village continued to oppose it at an Oct. 16 meeting of the village board.

The Sagaponack Village Board jettisoned a proposed amendment to its composting laws at a public hearing on Oct. 16 after input from the Long Island Farm Bureau, the Cornell Cooperative Extension, and local farmers.

It may not be the Subway Series that Mets fans were hoping for, but there are still reasons for baseball fans here to cheer, because when the Yankees play the Los Angeles Dodgers in game two of the World Series on Saturday night, the East Hampton Village Foundation will close Newtown Lane for a block party starting at 5.

The namesake for this recipe was likely Mary Hedges Carll (1831-1900), the aunt of the East Hampton Library’s first librarian, Ettie Hedges Pennypacker.

East Hampton Town residents casting ballots this year will find one proposition pertaining specifically to the town. Proposition 3 asks voters for approval to remove a triangle of land where North Main Street intersects with Three Mile Harbor and Springs-Fireplace Roads from the town’s nature preserve properties so that the area can be available for future road improvements.

Peter Eckey, an East Hampton native who was an engineering manager for Northrop Grumman in San Diego for 39 years, died on April 19 in Escondido, Calif. He was 72.

Kevin James Maggrett Jr., who worked alongside his father at Maggrett Auto Body in Bridgehampton, died of a heart attack on Oct. 4 in Edmeston, N.Y. He was 46.   

A funeral Mass for Phyllis Ann Lomitola of Montauk will be said on Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in that hamlet. Burial at Fort Hill Cemetery will follow.

Visiting hours for RoseMarie A. Kogut of Montauk will take place on Friday, Nov. 1, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said the next day at St. Therese of Lisieux Catholic Church in Montauk at 9 a.m.

In the best-case scenario, it will take many years, but the East Hampton Village Board pressed ahead last week with plans to build a sewage treatment plant outside village limits on Accabonac Road to serve the village business district. 

Residents of La Forest Lane, citing traffic and a serious summertime accident involving two e-bikes, urged the East Hampton Village Board last winter to consider turning their two-way road into a one-way street. The board then commissioned a traffic study, the results of which were presented on Friday.

Four charging stations for electric vehicles, courtesy of Electrify America, are to be installed in the 24-hour Lumber Lane parking lot, replacing six regular spots. The East Hampton Village Board agreed to the location last week.

A highlight of Halloween on the South Fork is the annual Bridgehampton Lions Club pumpkin-carving contest, which is set for Monday evening at the Bridgehampton Community House on Main Street.

In part because he knew the legendary journalist Jimmy Breslin, Richard Esposito was able to capture Breslin's larger-than-life character in his new biography.