The proposed 2025-26 budget for the Springs School District will fall within the property tax cap for the first time in two years. The budget was finalized at $38,411,791, a 1.58-percent increase over last year.

Jennifer Buscemi, the Sag Harbor School District’s business administrator, started off her budget presentation this week speaking about the federal grants the district receives — for this school year, the school was approved to receive $472,531.67 — and how the district would be affected if they were to be cut.

The Sag Harbor Village Board was receptive to a pitch on Tuesday to reduce single-use plastics, which the Surfrider Foundation says constitute the bulk of litter found at its beach cleanup efforts. 

The Sag Harbor Volunteer Ambulance Corps is hoping to broaden its membership by allowing Sag Harbor residents who are in college, or doing an equivalent educational program, to be eligible to volunteer.

The Montauk Library’s 2025-26 operating budget passed 93 to 16.

This photo from The Star’s archive shows firemen fighting flames hidden behind the facade of the Edwards Theater, which was destroyed.

The Easter Bunny will be making appearances at egg hunts at the Children’s Museum of the East End in Bridgehampton, the downtown Montauk green, the East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society headquarters, and the Amagansett Youth Park on Saturday.

The Springs School joined people around the world in celebrating World Down Syndrome Day on March 21. The global awareness day has been observed by the United Nations since 2012 and is represented by the colors blue and yellow.

Ticketed for an open container Friday night on Springs-Fireplace Road, a man walked behind the squad car and began urinating on a tree in plain sight of the officer. When the officer approached him, the man shoved the ticket at him and ran away.

A driver who sustained an injury to his shoulder in an accident on the evening of April 2 was charged afterward with misdemeanor drunken driving.

A vial with 1.17 grams of a “white powdery substance” was allegedly found on the driver of a 2019 Cadillac Escalade on Sunday. A “multi-drug” test determined the substance to be cocaine, police said.

Eunice Golden, a pioneering feminist artist, writer, and lecturer who over six decades created aggressively visceral images of male sexuality from a woman’s perspective, died last Thursday at her East Hampton residence and studio after a short illness. She was 98.

Joseph Santacroce, a retired carpenter, Air Force veteran, and native of Sag Harbor, died on March 28 at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue. He was 93.

John Tusa of East Hampton, who had worked as a community advocate and activist for most of his professional career, including many years as an addiction therapist at the Family Service League here, died in Southampton last Thursday at the age of 91. 

East Hampton capped a three-game sweep of Hauppauge with a 3-1 win here on Sunday afternoon in a game that had been twice-postponed because of the damp, dreary weather.

This week, the Bridgehampton School varsity baseball team will rally around Michael DeRosa, the school’s athletic director and gym teacher as well as a coach of the Killer Bees baseball team. DeRosa underwent emergency surgery last week to remove a cancerous tumor in his brain.

The latest on Bonac softball, boys and girls track, flag football, lacrosse, swimming, and boys tennis.

The week ahead in local action on the fields, courts, and track.

Iceboating awards, facing the best of UpIsland lacrosse, and the day youth swimming came to the RECenter.

Wildfires abounded in 1900 and 1925, and in 2000 a blaze took the estate-section home of Chevy Chase’s parents.