Edward L. Schiff, an eminent authority on real estate law, died of heart failure on July 4 in New York City. A summer resident of Montauk for more than 40 years, he was 96.

A caller reported three youths lying “in the middle of Suffolk Street,” next to a black S.U.V., at around 3 in the morning on July 14 in Sag Harbor. The three told police they were waiting for a friend and were out on the street because their vehicle had no air-conditioning.

Toyotas were on a tear this week, with four accidents on local roads resulting in injuries.

East Hampton Town police made three late-night arrests last week, all of them ending in felony charges, from assault to forgery to drug possession.

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The historic 3,230-square-foot William H. Hedges House, built in 1889 by George Eldredge with alterations made in 1946, has come on the market in East Hampton for the first time in a quarter century.

EyeGallery, described as “a living cabinet of curiosities,” has opened in the 4,000-square-foot space that had long been home to White’s Drug and Department Store.

The frequency of fender-benders, and worse, in front of our Main Street office is an indication of the folly of blindly following digital maps.

News has leaked that the Environmental Protection Agency was working to abandon its fundamental basis for fighting climate change.

Like most towns of any size and history, ours has a few public servants whose service is so exemplary it becomes legendary. Into this category we would place Randy Hoffman.

Among the many community groups hereabout I admire, the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society stands out for its uniqueness of purpose.

We are somewhat view-starved in 2025, having spent 100 years and more cluttering up the joint with signage, driveway gates, ever-higher houses, powerlines, and Green Giant arborvitae.

Once more unto the broken-down car.

The hostile takeover of our airspace started pre-pandemic but was accelerated by it: a collective attempt to sanitize our lives with scents that scream “no germs here.” This is my outcry.

New real estate transactions across the Fabulous Hamptons.

A driver was injured and East Hampton Village Main Street was closed for more than an hour on Wednesday after a massive tree limb fell without warning

"True Value," Alice Hope's ambitious new site-specific installation at LongHouse, is the most recent of her projects using commonplace materials, among them magnets and can tabs, assembled in repetitive but resonant configurations.

Next up at the Southampton Arts Center is "Beyond the Present: Collecting for the Future," an exhibition drawn from the distinctive art collection of Christine Mack.

Coming to LTV are Montauk's Joe Delia with his blues piano and clips from films he has scored, and the cabaret stars Barbara Fasano and Eric Comstock in "Hirschfeld's Broadway."

For "Celebrity Autobiography" at Guild Hall, celebs such as Christie Brinkley, Richard Kind, and Carson Kressley will read unintentionally amusing passages from other stars' memoirs.