An emotional East Hampton Town Board meeting Tuesday began with a two-hour public outpouring of support for the Latino community, mixed with confusion and countless questions about what ordinary people can do in the face of deportation threats from the Trump administration. Later, East Hampton and Sag Harbor Village officials and the East Hampton School District superintendent held a press conference emphasizing that all people should feel safe going to school or calling police and emergency personnel.

The East Hampton Town Board is looking to change the parking rules for several municipal lots in Montauk, adding a time limit at some that currently have no limit and making it easier for police to enforce restrictions where they do exist.

A proposal by Gov. Kathy Hochul for the state to cover the cost of school meals for all children could have a major impact on the Sag Harbor School District budget for 2025-26, the school’s business administrator, Jennifer Buscemi, told the board last week. But the largest part of the school budget is salaries and employee benefits.

At the Amagansett School Board’s budget presentation Tuesday evening Thomas Mager, the district’s treasurer, discussed the draft budgets for revenue and expenditure.

Gerard Drive, regarded as one of the more environmentally sensitive areas in East Hampton Town, jutting out as it does into Gardiner’s Bay and protecting Accabonac Harbor, has only one pool along its 1.4-mile length. Soon there will be another.

For East Hampton as much as Washington, D.C., readers are concerned.

Elon Musk is out of control and running the show in Washington, D.C. 

Immigrant labor has helped keep the Hamptons humming for decades, longer if you go back to the turn of the 20th century and the Irish and Italians who worked on the estates of the oceanfront rich.

It is the story of my life that, post sixth grade, I have pretty much always been on the giver end of the Valentine exchange.

Thoughts of Harvey Pekar and life among the files.

Two years have passed since I started my adventure teaching memoir writing behind bars. It’s like group therapy without the therapist.

Looking for a Hamptons real estate report? Here’s two weeks in one.

After years of effort, accelerated recently because of dangerous conditions, the inlet at Lake Montauk will undergo emergency dredging, perhaps by the end of the month. At the East Hampton Town Board meeting on Tuesday, Councilman David Lys announced the development during his liaison reports, saying he was "very pleasantly surprised."

Next up in the Artists and Writers dinner series at Almond is Jackie Hoving, an artist, curator, and co-director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery in Brooklyn.

In his nonreferential paintings and large-scale murals, Aaron Parazette engages with issues of flatness, perspective, and illusion.

That Motown Band will bring the music of the Motor City to Sag Harbor for a benefit concert.

Jesse Matsuoka of Sen restaurant on cuisine and culture, Eric Fischl on "Heaven, Hell, and the Garden," and an Afro-Caribbean dance workshop at The Church.

The Sticks and Stones Comedy Club will host a standup set by Palma Florentino and a screening of a comedic take on immigration.

Curator-led tour of "A New Subjectivity 1979/2024" at the Parrish Art Museum.

New artist residents chosen by Watermill Center, jazz at the Masonic Temple in Sag Harbor, horticultural alliance lecture on native plants.