Gerard Drive, a mile-long peninsula that runs north to south on the east side of Springs, shielding Accabonac Harbor from Gardiner’s Bay, is one of the more environmentally sensitive areas in East Hampton Town. Along its entire length, only a single house has a swimming pool. At a public hearing before the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals on Oct. 22, an applicant argued that it was time for another.

Both Proposition 1, the statewide Equal Rights Amendment, and Proposition 2, a small Suffolk County sales-tax increase to support the phasing out of pollution-producing cesspools, gained enough voter support to pass on Tuesday.

The Ladies Village Improvement Society is accepting applications for its Madelon DeVoe Talley Scholarship, available to women 25 or older who are enrolled in or plan to enroll in an undergraduate program. Two $3,000 scholarships will be awarded.

A memorial service for Constance Mary Cafiso will be held on Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Sag Harbor, with a celebration of her life to follow at the Brick Kiln Road firehouse.

The character of Amagansett School's principal, Maria Dorr, was the focus of a disciplinary hearing on Oct. 30, but school attorneys repeatedly steered discussion back to the central issue: a missing red envelope with a $25 Amazon gift card enclosed.

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders at the Springs School participated in the annual idiom contest on Halloween as an educational way to have fun on an otherwise crazy school day. The contest challenged students to interpret an idiom with a costume and/or props for the judges, who were the school's administrators.

The newest classroom at the John M. Marshall Elementary School lacks windows, walls, and even a door, yet students are enjoying it nonetheless. Sound a bit strange? It's all intentional — it's an outdoor classroom.

Five Pierson High School students who are excelling both inside and outside the classroom have been recognized for their achievements: Two seniors have been named semifinalists in the 2025 National Merit Scholarship Competition, and three students have been honored for their exemplary work and outstanding character.

Friends and family members arrived from near and far — by long trips on planes, trains, and buses — to attend the Sept. 14 wedding of Ethan Bregman and Olha Beskhmelnytsina in Lviv, Ukraine.

Michael Clark, the executive director of LTV Studios, was honored with a Recognition Award at a Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee meeting on Saturday after being invited as a guest speaker.

After 34 years in business — all of them on East Hampton's Park Place — the Party Shoppe will close its doors at the end of February when its owner, Theo Landi, retires.

"Our lifelong friend Tommy Hupalowsky can use your help right now," Robin Goetz wrote on a GoFundMe fund-raising page last month. Two hurricanes and the loss of his wife have left Mr. Hupalowsky, a former longtime employee of Ben Krupinski Builders, facing difficulty in Englewood, Fla.

In this Star photo by Eileen Bock we see a helicopter grounded below the Montauk Manor on the Montauk Playhouse lawn, as someone from ABC News hoped to catch Perry Duryea Jr. at the polls in his native hamlet.

The last time East Hampton Village updated its comprehensive plan, in 2002, the region had been freshly impacted by 9/11, Amazon was in its infancy, and the iPhone hadn't yet been invented. While a lot has changed, as they say, much has stayed the same, including many of the issues facing the village. Issues identified in the 2002 plan — traffic, teardowns, and loss of businesses that served the local population — persist in 2024.

A community vote to raise money for construction is on the horizon for the Montauk School District, which recently released the estimated tax impact for a bond somewhere between $40 and $45 million.

This week's lineup of activities for children and teens includes robotics, taste-test challenges, a Mario Kart tournament, sports activities, and more.

A woman at the Amagansett train station reported “an older man making eye contact” with her on Friday evening and walking around her car. Eventually, she told police, he attempted to open her locked car door. Police could not find him.

I can most certainly relate to the phrase “old habits are hard to break,” especially as it pertains to bay scallops. No matter how much I read year after year about the dire predictions for the five-month scallop season, which opened at daybreak on Monday morning in state waters, I still make plans to be on my Rock Water with six iron dredges in tow on opening day.

A writer looks back at one of the most iconic pickup basketball games on the South Fork, a long-running Sunday morning affair that drew all sorts of players from all walks of life.

Two months after it was originally to have been played, the East End men’s 7-on-7 soccer final was finally contested at East Hampton Village’s Herrick Park on Oct. 30, with Maidstone Market, the league’s perennial power, emerging as a 2-1 winner over Tortorella Pools.