With just over a month before Election Day, the race in Congressional District 1 between Representative Nick LaLota, the Republican incumbent, and John Avlon, a former CNN anchor, is set to get interesting.

With the power line now fixed at East Hampton Village Mobile Home Community following a four-day summer outage, residents heard last week of a new issue stemming from the power failure: a 6-percent rent increase due to either “capital improvements” or increased “operating costs.” Now, residents wonder: Is that legal?

In 1834, 14-year-old Martha Thompson (1821-1854) made this sampler in Center Moriches. Detailed with the alphabet, her name, year of her birth, and a short poem, it was completed as a way for Martha to practice her needlework, writing, and reading skills.

The just over $103.72 million preliminary budget that Rebecca Hansen, the town administrator, presented to the board this week brings the town’s projected expenses above $100 million for the first time, because of an over $8 million spending increase.

A new documentary coming to the Hamptons International Film Festival explores a civil war within the Bush Sr. White House that ended up stifling an early effort to deal with climate change.

The race for the East End’s State Senate seat is heating up between Anthony Palumbo, the Republican and Conservative incumbent, and Sarah Anker, a Democratic and Common Sense Suffolk candidate and former county legislator.

At the beginning of each Sag Harbor Village Board meeting, the trustees do a rundown of committee reports that paint a picture of what goes on in the municipality to keep it running. The numbers tell the story of the village, from the tally of parking infractions to the millions of gallons of sewage that move beneath the streets.

The Montauk School District has received community support to tackle student hunger with its “food table,” an idea that originated with its PTA and was so successful the district made it a permanent part of its operating budget.

Have you ever wondered what band and chorus life is like for students in fifth through eighth grade at the Springs School? Here’s a little taste.

Pumpkin-decorating in Sag Harbor, ghost stories in East Hampton — it must be fall.

A Sag Harbor woman reported a “rather unpleasant aroma in the air” near Main Street on Saturday. An officer informed her that the smell was likely coming from the nearby sewage plant. The woman disagreed, claiming she is “very experienced in these smells,” and asked the officer to search each garbage can for a dead deer.

I’ve probably seen “Jaws” a hundred times, including when it made its debut on the big screen at the East Hampton Cinema on June 20, 1975. I know the entire script word for word.

From boys and girls soccer to field hockey to golf and tennis, read all about it.

A homecoming triumph on the gridiron, and the RECenter opens with a splash.

House fires, bombing zones in Block Island Sound, and virus-killed birds. Here is a trip into the pungent past.

Ward Freese, a former pilot, aluminum siding installer, and East Hampton Town assessor, died on Aug. 25 at Holmes Regional Medical Center in Melbourne, Fla. He was 94.

Patti Morton, a 1956 graduate of East Hampton High School, died on Sept. 21 at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, Vt. She was 85.

A graveside service for Ronald Edwards of East Hampton will take place on Oct. 12 at 11 a.m. at Oak Grove Cemetery in Amagansett.

Emilie Erica Stoll and Jean Carlo Barrientos, who were married on Friday at Navy Beach in Montauk, still remember the exact date they met: July 23, 2014. They had both finished their freshman years at college. They were at the beach. “He was surfing the hurricane swell at Napeague that evening while she was going for a sunset dip,” they wrote. “He came up to her as she was walking back towards the parking lot and asked her name, and the rest is history.”

Leland E. Winslow and Chelsea C. Walker were married on Sept. 22, the anniversary of their first date, at East Wind in Wading River.