Was it fate that sent a reporter who had awoken to sharp lower back pain, and nagging worry about car trouble, to Hamptons Float in Water Mill?

The old adage “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” will be upended at the Ross School on Saturday when two award-winning screenwriters offer their insights on creating film scripts as part of the Hamptons International Film Festival’s Screenwriters Lab weekend.

Mariana Sanchez, a native of Mexico and now of Amagansett, has her set design work on display at New York City’s Lincoln Center in a production of “Marys Seacole” through Sunday.

At least 200 people turned out on Tuesday for a daylong presentation by PSEG Long Island on possible locations for a new substation to serve Montauk’s growing electrical demand.

Several years of effort to save the Springs house and studios of the artists James Brooks and Charlotte Park may be coming to naught, with a town committee this week recommending the studio be demolished and the fate of the other buildings also uncertain.

Following objections from Montauk hotel and motel owners and co-op managers, the East Hampton Town Board decided Tuesday to scrap a proposal that would have sharply raised the rate the town charges for beach parking permits used by guests.

The settlement is a sharp about-face from the D.E.C.’s ruling last September that ordered Sand Land to stop its mining operations when its permit expired in November and remediate the site by 2020. Now that might not happen until at least 2028.

Lawmakers consider legal action over the county comptroller's highly controversial decision to send 1099 tax forms to homeowners who were told they would not be taxed for taking advantage of a county program for new, environmentally friendly septic systems.

The board of the Sagaponack School District, which now has 17 students in kindergarten through third grade in its little red schoolhouse, declined to add the Bridgehampton School as an option for graduating students at its March meeting despite having been pressed to do so by some parents for several years.

A Risso’s dolphin, one of a larger dolphin species with a distinctive gray body, was found stranded on a sandbar between the end of Louse Point in Springs and Wood Tick Island this week.

The East Hampton Town attorney, Michael Sendlenski, who has helped draft the low-nitrogen septic system and rental registry laws among other legislation since joining the town’s legal team in 2013, announced on Monday that he would be resigning effective May 3.

A 56-year-old Sag Harbor man was arrested Wednesday on charges of sexually abusing a child in Springs in November, East Hampton Town police said.

A 23-year-old Springs man was arrested on rape charges after he sexually abused two East Hampton teens, town police said.

Two men armed with guns tied up a man inside his house in Springs and demanded cash early on Thursday, East Hampton Town police said.

A plan to build a school bus depot on nearly three acres of land adjacent to the recycling center on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton can move forward, the East Hampton Town Planning Board said.

East Hampton Town police arrested two men last week in separate cases of sex abuse.

One of the pivotal members of the Montauk drug ring broken up by police last summer is headed to state prison for six years.

Valerie diLorenzo’s 10-week voice workshops, now at Guild Hall, offer a palpable lift to patients.

Perry Gershon, an East Hampton resident who narrowly lost a race to unseat Lee Zeldin to represent New York’s First Congressional District in November, wants another chance to defeat the third-term Republican.

A plan to extend the terms of leases to land at Lazy Point in Amagansett, where residents own their houses but rent the land beneath from the East Hampton Town Trustees, hit a roadblock during a public hearing on Monday.