“I can tell you — from long experience — that I have never questioned the veracity, the efficiency, and the effectiveness of the board of elections. They have always done a great job,” Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said on Friday as he and other county officials unveiled a new $2.8 million Early Voting Training Center in Yaphank that will be used as a training space for poll personnel, including those in East Hampton. 

In celebration of its 20th year offering dance and art education for children, teens, and adults, the A&G Dance Company has kicked off a campaign to raise a $20,000 endowment. Two of the goals, the company owners said this week, are to offer more scholarships to families facing financial difficulties and to boost the adaptive dance and art programs for adults and kids with special needs.

An East Hampton man was charged with driving while intoxicated on the night of Oct. 21, his fourth drunken-driving charge in the past 15 years, a class-D felony.

Carol Ann McNally of Sag Harbor, a nurse for more than 40 years, died at Southampton Hospital on Sept. 28. She was 86.

“We are here to talk to the air and hope something talks back,” said James Saccone of Smithtown, the tech manager of the Long Island Paranormal Investigators, while walking through the blacked-out halls of the Nathaniel Rogers House as a group of ghost hunters attempted to bridge the gap between the physical world and what lies beyond. 

A multi-agency collaboration resulted on Friday in the arrest of Om Parkash, 31, of Queens, on a charge of second-degree grand larceny, a class-C felony.

Phyllis Ann Lomitola of Montauk, who had a long career with Gurney’s Resorts, died on Oct. 20 in Tennessee at the age of 70.

A sailboat on its way from Maine to North Carolina was shipwrecked on Napeague under a clear midnight sky Oct. 22, as Vanessa Wyman and Mareson Yates attempted to navigate the local waters.

On the morning of Oct. 22, a caller reported a man "running in and out of traffic" near Stop and Shop. When police caught up with him, he told them he was late for court, and they waved him on.

A homemaker who raised five children and made Montauk her home for 22 years later in life, RoseMarie A. Kogut died on Oct. 10 at the Westhampton Care Center. She was 90.

Voting takes place Tuesday from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. Find a list here of polling places in East Hampton Town and eastern Southampton Town along with instructions for how to look up your polling place if you don't know it.

This haunting photograph shows the gravestone of Mercy Edwards Van Scoy (1732-1782) in the Van Scoy-Edwards Cemetery in Northwest Woods. Self-guided tours are available from the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society.

Pity Tom Banks, his head stove in by a horse hoof. That was 1899. Fifty years later, two pilots were forced to make daring emergency landings, one on Long Beach and another at the Shinnecock Canal. Do read on.

Here. Now. Real estate. The latest.

In an unusual move last week, the East Hampton Town Planning Board punted on the builder John Hummel’s proposal to move Amagansett’s historic George Baker House at 261 Main Street and convert it to offices for his firm. The house now sits well back from Main Street, and it is proposed to move it closer to the road to make room for parking behind it. 

It’s not all about the election. There’s the environment and the C.P.F., too.

Roberto de Guardiola, 29, of Southampton, won the East Hampton Village Foundation 5K on Saturday in a time of 19 minutes and 58.13 seconds.

One is using acoustic telemetry to track the movement patterns of local fish. The other is employing an 80-foot commercial fishing vessell to gather migratory data on commercial and recreational fish.

For decency. For rationality. For science. For truth — and for many, many other reasons — we are for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

Representative Nick LaLota is in a tough spot: trying to present himself as a moderate while not appearing so cozy with Democrats that he risks alienating his conservative District 1 base.