The East Hampton Town Trustees voted to increase the amount of the annual scholarship awarded an East Hampton High School senior from $1,500 to $3,000 this year, but how to finance it was a subject of discussion Monday.
The East Hampton Town Trustees voted to increase the amount of the annual scholarship awarded an East Hampton High School senior from $1,500 to $3,000 this year, but how to finance it was a subject of discussion Monday.
In the wake of the deaths of two American citizens in Minneapolis at the hands of federal officers involved in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement crackdown in the city, hundreds of people here have signed up to be part of a Rapid Response team organized by Organizacion Latino Americana of Eastern Long Island.
The East Hampton Town Trustees were of two minds about a proposed East Hampton Village law to extend the prohibition of dogs and trucks on village beaches from Sept. 15 to Columbus Day.
The Town of East Hampton formally completed the transition of primary 911 call answering from East Hampton Village to its Police Department Dispatch Center. All 911 calls from landlines within the town (outside the village or Sag Harbor) will now be taken from the town police headquarters in Wainscott.
An East Hampton Library employee told police on Jan. 20 that an elderly man who has a history of “tying women’s undergarments onto a bicycle at the library” had done it again.
A Montauk woman was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital on Jan. 22 after being hit by a car.
For kids and families this week, there's tinsmithing at the Children's Museum of the East End, a family workshop at the Watermill Center, and a movie, author visit, and slime-making at the East Hampton Library.
East Enders in search of a cultural experience, look no further than the Ross School’s senior projects. “The idea is that their passions and their interests and their academic capacity and skills all feed into a passion project that they pursue on a very serious level, working with faculty mentors. It’s like a pivot point in their lives,” said the director of senior projects.
The long Martin Luther King Jr. weekend was a competitive one for Spring School students who swim for the East Hampton Hurricanes.
Scenes from yet another winter storm, from a cold plunge in Gardiner's Bay to a hardware store keeping people in shovels and salt to the highway departments working around the clock to clear the roads.
Twenty or so monks from a monastery in Texas are making their way to Washington, D.C., on a mission of compassion, while locally a class on the Buddhist path to world peace will be held in Water Mill.
Coordinated vigils for what organizers call victims of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement will happen across the East End on Friday at 6 p.m. and in Riverhead on Saturday at 10 a.m., with local events scheduled in East Hampton Village and Sag Harbor.
This photostat of a deposition taken on Oct. 18, 1667, from East Hampton’s first minister, Thomas James, is one of the earliest records we have of “Ackobuak,” or “Accabonac,” as a place name.
Sag Harbor Village is the recipient of a $34,091 New York State grant to develop an engineering study to replace failing septic systems in the Redwood neighborhood with a decentralized wastewater collection and treatment system to reduce nitrogen and pathogen loading in Sag Harbor Cove.
With Valentines Day around the corner, our teen book reviewer considers two books by Nicola Yoon about profound romances, each of which have captured the hearts of readers across the globe: "Everything Everything" and "The Sun is Also a Star."
The offshore wind industry, despite a sustained campaign against it by the Trump administration, won another round on Jan. 15 when a United States District Court granted the developer of the Empire Wind 1 farm a preliminary injunction that allows construction of the 54-turbine, 810-megawatt project to resume.
Debating the Democratic Party primary for supervisor, while on the national scene LaLota takes his lumps.
Norms change. And it’s time for a norm change around gas leaf blowers.
The 40-acre Montauk property known to surfers and surfcasters as the Ranch is a priority for preservation.
The Trump administration checks all the boxes on a list of fascist tendencies.
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