Katie Osiecki, North Bar’s pitcher, returned for the East Hampton Town women’s slow-pitch softball league’s playoffs, and immediately made her presence known, leading her team to a trophy at the Terry King ball field in Amagansett.

I was surprised to see in my logbook that my lobster catch was better than expected this year, although lobsters in our local waters have been on a downswing for decades.

Several fire departments worked for four hours to tame a fire at a large house on La Forest Lane in East Hampton Saturday evening. 

Several fire departments worked for four hours to tame a fire at a large house on La Forest Lane in East Hampton Saturday evening. 

The owners of a house where two sisters died in a fire while their family was vacationing there have admitted they rented the house illegally, built an outdoor kitchen with neither a construction permit nor an electrical inspection, and failed to make sure smoke and carbon monoxide alarms were working throughout the house.

East Hampton Town will honor Nancy Kelley, a longtime advocate for land preservation and stewardship, with a plaque dedication ceremony at the Nancy Kelley Nature Preserve on Monday morning.

East Hampton Town police blocked off roads in Montauk and had the Long Island Rail Road halt Montauk-bound trains on Friday afternoon as they responded to a possible “psychiatric emergency” at a house on Edgemere Street, not far from the train station.

A descendant of the Round Swamp Lester family who was known for her caring nature and generous spirit, Mary L. Lester died after a short illness on Aug. 11 at the Bridgeway Care and Rehabilitation Center in Hillsborough, N.J.

Debris from a 115,000-pound, 300-foot-tall GE Vernova wind turbine blade, which fell from the Vineyard Wind farm off Nantucket in mid-July while it was being tested, may end up at southern-facing beaches in Montauk during the coming days, East Hampton Town officials warned Wednesday.

Amistad Week, organized by the Southampton African American Museum, the Eastville Community Historical Society, and the Montauk Historical Society, features six days of events centered around a replica of the schooner Amistad, which anchored off Fort Pond Bay in Montauk in the summer of 1839 after the enslaved men on board overthrew their captors and gained control of the ship. 

On Friday, in a unanimous decision, the village board terminated two easements and renegotiated the use of the Osborn-Jackson House on Main Street. It will no longer have to be a museum.

The $16.1 million project, paid for with a combination of town money, New York State grants, and an $8.25 million donation from the Montauk Playhouse Community Center Foundation, is on schedule, with construction expected to be complete by June 2025. Construction crews recently finished a major component: the "monolithic pour" of cement for the ceiling above the swimming pool.

The weather forecast looks pleasant for Saturday, when Lois Peltz and Jerry Brown will lead a bike ride through Wainscott, Sagaponack, and Water Mill for the East Hampton Trails Preservation Society from 9 a.m. to noon.

The "cup count," now a popular community attraction at the Monogram Shop in East Hampton, has accurately predicted four out of five winners of presidential races since its inception in 2004.

Elected officials and school district leaders are lobbying the Metropolitan Transportation Authority to carry out much-needed train track improvements on the East End. They want the M.T.A. to include money in the next five-year capital plan, on which the agency is scheduled to vote in October, for a specific set of upgrades and repairs that would enable an expansion of the train program known as the South Fork Commuter Connection.

Tensions ran high on Monday at East Hampton Town Hall, where the Springs Park Committee met to go over plans for the future of the park.

A proposal to increase density on senior-citizen-only affordable housing developments in East Hampton Town from the current eight units per acre to 12 was met warmly at a town board hearing last week.

This card from the photographer Kathryn McLaughlin Abbe to Enez Whipple, the Guild Hall director at the time, is from the Local Artist Research Archive.

Working to rekindle a sense of community among people with a deep history here, an old group with a new name — the Sons and Daughters of East Hampton — got together this week at the East Hampton Historical Farm Museum to reminisce and reconnect.

After heavy rain and flash flooding on Sunday, Concerned Citizens of Montauk’s weekly tests of water samples collected at sites in Montauk, Napeague, Amagansett, Springs, and East Hampton “revealed through-the-roof dangerous bacteria levels,” at all but two spots, including test spots on the ocean.