Suffolk County officials have delayed a plan to introduce an on-demand bus service zone to replace two East Hampton-area buses, the 10B and 10C, because of a manufacturer’s recall of the buses themselves.

Seven of the nine incumbent East Hampton Town Trustees, six of them Democrats and one a Republican with Democratic cross-endorsement, are seeking re-election on Nov. 7. Altogether, there are 12 people running for the nine seats, including three Republican challengers, one Democrat, and one other cross-endorsed candidate.

This winter, the East Hampton Village Department of Public Works plans to shift hedgerows and remove a chain-link fence that separates a parcel at 8 Muchmore Lane from the neighboring Herrick Park. When the work is complete, village officials said, it will have the effect of making the park appear larger, as the lot has been hidden from view and inaccessible.

There is something creepy about cormorants. From most distances, they look black, with long thick necks, tails, and wings. In flight, they appear like black crosses. Against a cormorant, fish have no hope; the tip of their orange bill is hook-shaped, a perfect tool to capture over 250 species of fish. Soon those single black crosses will join to form sky-wide, shape-shifting patterns as they migrate away.

Councilwoman Kathee Burke-Gonzalez, the Democratic and Working Families Party candidate, and a sitting town councilwoman, is facing Gretta Leon, the Republican and Conservative Party candidate and a newcomer to town politics, in the 2023 race for the East Hampton Town supervisor's seat.

The East Hampton Town Trustees heard recommendations from a subcommittee Monday confirming their understanding that there are noncompliant structures in trustee waters that will have to be brought into compliance or removed, and that in some instances previously issued permits could be revoked.

The four candidates vying for two seats on the East Hampton Town Board agreed on some issues and differed on others in an Oct. 18 debate hosted by the League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and North Fork.

Halloween parades, spooky family fun, tricks, and lots of treats are in store this week in the lead-up to Halloween festivities on Tuesday.

At the East Hampton Middle School, the 471 brand-new lockers that were installed in September — replacing ones that were half the size and at least 40 years old — have gotten top grades from the students themselves.

The Springs School girls tennis team poured hard work, dedication, spirit, and diligence into its season this year.

Festivals, book clubs, arts and crafts, movies, and more coming up for kids and teens this week.

With interest in baseball here surging “through the roof,” in Tim Garneau’s words, he and other active community members are pushing to have a four-row, three-section, 132-seat grandstand built on leveled ground behind home plate at East Hampton High School’s varsity field in time for the spring season.

As Halloween approaches, you’re probably not thinking of dressing up as a European monarch or other foreign potentate, but to members of the Maidstone Club in October 1940, as seen in this photo from The Star’s archive, this was a stellar idea.

Elected officials, utility contractors, and other interested parties will gather to celebrate the completion of a project to bury utility lines and remove utility poles at the “Montauk Gateway,” in front of 589 Montauk Highway, on Monday at 10 a.m. The public has been invited to attend.

Shortly before 11 p.m. on Oct. 18, “a large brown bag containing an assortment of women’s clothes” was brought to police headquarters for safekeeping after being found in front of the Dragon Hemp Apothecary on Main Street in Sag Harbor.

Edward Bleier, an influential television executive, died at his home in East Hampton, where he and his wife had vacationed for over a half-century, on Oct. 17. He had turned 94 the day before.

Karl A. Vermandois, an art teacher at the East Hampton Middle School for 25 years whose own work was shown at many East End galleries, died on Oct. 17 at East End Hospice’s Kanas Center in Quiogue after a long illness. He was 83.

Alexander Mellon Laughlin, a retired investment adviser who had been a chairman of the board of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., died on Oct. 4 at his East Hampton house overlooking Hook Pond.

James W. Bennett, “a true old-time Bonacker,” his family said, who opened the Bennett Marine boatyard in Springs in the late 1970s, died on Oct. 10 at home on School Street, where he had lived for 69 years. He was 89.

Samantha Harris and William Murphy of St. Louis were married on Sept. 16 at the Country Club in Chestnut Hill, Mass. The bride’s brothers, Jonathan Harris and Dashiell Harris, and the groom’s brother, Andrew Murphy, officiated.