A brush fire that broke out in Water Mill on Monday burned over three and a half acres and came close to a house before firefighters were able to extinguish it.

Bridgehampton Fire Chief Gary Horsburgh said Tuesday that a man was out in an open field behind 153 Little Noyac Path with a lawn mower when the fire began at about 11:35 a.m.

An East Hampton woman is facing charges after she was injured in Sag Harbor early Sunday morning in a serious car accident.

Sag Harbor Village police said they responded at about 2:20 a.m. to  crash on Hampton Street and found a severely damaged 2007 Cadillac. Laura E.

Anthony D. Sosinksi, the captain of a Montauk lobster boat, was charged Saturday morning with boating while intoxicated, a misdemeanor, as well as reckless operation of a vessel.

Swan injuries and stolen license plates are among the items on the police logs this week.

The Hess station in Wainscott was the scene Sunday of two alcohol-related arrests, with a third made later that day about a quarter-mile away, also in Wainscott.

What's on the East Hampton police logs for this week.

A house on Georgica Road in East Hampton Village was burglarized sometime between April 17 and last Thursday, when the homeowner called police.

The Montauk and Springs Fire Departments held their annual dinners over the weekend to celebrate the volunteers and their accomplishments. 

In Springs, where the 50th anniversary of the Fire Department is continuing, four charter members — top photo, from left, Joseph Fitzgerald, Bruce Baldwin, East Hampton Town Councilman Fred Overton, who is a former fire chief, and Michael Collins —

An fight turns physical in Amagansett, and patio chairs recently delivered to an East Hampton house go missing.

Amagansett

A member of the Ocean Estates Property Owners Association told police on April 16 that at some point during the month of March five sign posts, each with a speed limit and a private road sign, were stolen from their positions on Shipwreck Drive.

East Hampton Town police arrested a Sound Beach man on Pantigo Road in East Hampton on the afternoon of May 5, charging him with driving while intoxicated and without a valid license or registration, all misdemeanors.

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A 32-year-old Northwest Woods man was arrested last week on a felony charge of sexually abusing an East Hampton High School student under the age of 17.

The season started a week early on local roads, with a noticeable increase in the number of drunken-driving arrests.

A woman who returned last week to her Cutter Court house found that four driveway lights had been smashed, and a couple of dog walkers who forgot to clean up after their dogs were ticketed.

When Edward Orr Sr., a driver for Road Runner Taxi in Montauk, picked up three people from Manhattan Friday morning at the Montauk train station, there was nothing unusual about the call.

The cause of a fire at World Pie restaurant in Bridgehampton remained under investigation yesterday, four days after the blaze closed down the mainstay at the start of the busy Memorial Day weekend.

What's on the police logs this week.

What's on the police logs this week.

What's on the police logs this week.

The New York State Police Department has added at least two more squad cars to patrol in Montauk on weekend nights.