A fire on Park Street in East Hampton early Saturday afternoon left extensive damage to a house and killed the family dog, East Hampton Fire Chief Duane Forrester said Monday. 

Throughout his long and successful career as an architect, Peter Gumpel has sustained a practice as a watercolor painter some of whose remarkable portraits are being assembled into a book.

Partisanship may have unleashed the current political chaos, but Julian Zelizer, a Princeton professor, looks back at party loyalty that was and ahead to how partisanship might be beneficial in the future.

Boots on the Ground Theater's new production is "The Railway Children," adapted from Edith Nesbit's 1905 children's book and starring three young local actors.

LTV will host a solo show about Shirley Chisholm, three local performers in concert, and Isle of Klezbos, an all-female klezmer group.

Eric Dever and Joel Perlman in Bridgehampton, monotype workshop at The Church, group shows at Lucore, the White Room, and Grenning, "Erotic City" at Firestone.

Beethoven's "Fidelio" from The Met, comedy at Bay Street, classical recital on Shelter Island, Shinnecock storytelling, saving Penn Station, music at the Masonic Temple.

St. Patrick's Day specials at Rowdy Hall, a prix fixe menu at Il Buco al Mare, and summer C.S.A. sign-ups for Quail Hill Farm.

Brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach that burned more than 600 acres were likely sparked by a fire that spread from a house in Manorville where people were making s'mores on Saturday afternoon, Suffolk County police said. Some 90 agencies responded, including fire departments from the South Fork.

Brush fires in the Pine Barrens around Westhampton Beach that burned more than 600 acres were likely sparked by a fire that spread from a house in Manorville where people were making s'mores on Saturday afternoon, Suffolk County police said. Some 90 agencies responded, including fire departments from the South Fork.

Donnelly McGovern, the boys varsity soccer coach, and Tom Lambert and Chris Schneider, school security guards, stepped up to help when a high school student experienced a medical emergency in the gym in January. “They are simply heroes,” Adam Fine, superintendent of the East Hampton School District, said.

There's a lot going on at the Bridgehampton Museum’s Nathaniel Rogers House this week. 

In the early days of Donald Trump’s second term as president, local Republican leaders and those who are serving in elected positions now or did in the past reflected on the administration’s first months, calling for patience amid the upheaval.

A unanimous East Hampton Town Board passed a resolution Tuesday to create the John Osborn Homestead Historic Landmark at 66 Main Street in Wainscott. The town purchased the property from Ronald Lauder, using community preservation fund money, for $56 million late last year.

The nature of the discourse Saturday, when the executive director of the East Hampton Housing Authority discussed a forthcoming housing development on Route 114 in Wainscott with the hamlet's citizens advisory committee, was markedly different from discussions on affordable housing in the Wainscott School District that took place a decade ago.

East Hampton Village is exploring creating its own justice court that could be up and running at the Emergency Services Building on Cedar Street by next January.

At a 2025 Environmental Roundtable hosted by State Senator Anthony Palumbo in Riverhead last Thursday, where elected officials from across the East End met with environmental interest groups, East Hampton Town Councilwoman Cate Rogers used her time to speak about one of the town’s biggest environmental issues, coastal resilience, and the fear that some projects may no longer get the federal funding that small municipalities rely on.

Growing up with a father well known for documenting the vanishing wildlife of the African continent, it may have been inevitable that Zara Beard would eventually make it her mission to rescue wildlife and protect the natural world. EchoWild, the conservation nonprofit she founded this year, will start locally, with a wildlife trauma unit in East Hampton in partnership with the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center.

Amid mass layoffs of federal government employees, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine are encouraging them to consider working for New York State or the county.

Fourth graders at the Springs School went on a field trip to the Liberty Science Center and Planetarium in Jersey City last Thursday.