A public hearing on an East Hampton Town proposal to alter the calculation that governs the maximum size of a house — going from a gross floor area of 10 percent of a lot size plus 1,600 square feet down to 7 percent of the lot size plus 1,500 square feet — was replete with buzzwords: community, resources, traffic, McMansion, greed, and sliding scales. Building professionals and concerned citizens stuffed Town Hall past capacity to offer mostly educated comments. 

The surprising news in an update on wildfire readiness in East Hampton Town at Tuesday’s town board meeting was that trees felled by the southern pine beetle are not top of mind for fire experts who are assessing the town’s fire risk. 

They didn’t need to speak the same language to build a school, play soccer, or partake in the most popular local pastime, Senegalese wrestling. For the 22 students on the buildOn service trip, it was a life-changing experience.

As winds out of the northwest gusted at near 40 miles per hour early Saturday, it didn’t take long for the embers from a fire that began around 9:30 a.m. in a Manorville backyard, “following an attempt to make s’mores,” to ignite multiple brush fires that would grow to burn 600 acres in the Westhampton pine barrens. Suffolk County police arson detectives reached the conclusion after first reviewing 911 call from the hours leading up to the incident.

The East Hampton Town Board offered unanimous support to use $1.5 million in Community Housing Funds to purchase a four-unit multiple residence building, at 109 Hampton Street in Sag Harbor Village, in concert with the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust, which would pitch in an additional $1.2 million. 

East Hampton Town police made fewer overall arrests last year, but more arrests for driving while intoxicated — another year that has led Chief Michael Sarlo to say that “we live in an extremely safe community.” 

Low-flying drones were reported flying over Deep Hollow Ranch on the evening of March 3. Police saw their lights blinking red and white, but no action was taken. 

The United States Army Corps of Engineers has successfully completed an emergency dredging project at the Lake Montauk Inlet. 

The Parrish Art Museum’s 2025 Student Exhibition, with artwork by about a thousand students ranging in age from prekindergarten through high school, will open on Saturday in Water Mill. 

From a Peconic River befouled by sewage 100 years ago to a sedan’s telltale sagging springs that led to a burglary arrest, it happened here.

Edward Francis White and Breanna Dawn Halbur of Arvada, Colo., were married on Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Denver City and County Building overlooking Civic Center Park, with the Hon. Renee A. Goble officiating.

Looking back on news of the Montauk Rugby Club and a Maidstoners softball trip to Cuba,

Laments, worries, kvetches, praise: Our readers bare their souls.

Of all the work-force cuts by the Trump administration, none could top slashing the National Weather Service and its parent, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration.

As we watch wildfires on the evening news with horror, the question arises of how, exactly, an evacuation of East Hampton would work.

Almost 250 years ago, an enslaved man was sold not far from this newspaper’s office.

My favorite meal is an inter-meal that comes around at 4:30. I love tea.

Thoughts from someone who hated daylight saving time. Until suddenly he didn't.

More real estate transactions, Montauk to Southampton Village, December to February.

The bandbox, a staple of 19th-century travel, was more than just a practical storage solution. It was a symbol of newfound freedom for a feminine work force.