The East Hampton Town Board awarded Bistrian Materials the bid to provide sand for the Ditch Plain dune restoration project. The company’s bid of $1,215,000 was the lowest received.

Unseasonably warm weather and the promise of hard clam delicacies including chowder, pies, and clams on the half shell drew what was likely the largest crowd in the history of the East Hampton Town Trustees’ annual Largest Clam Contest to the Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Museum.

East Hampton Village is soon to be the first municipality east of the Shinnecock Canal to arm its police officers not just with guns, but with EpiPens.

An “older gentleman” was at the bar at Rosie’s in Amagansett with a younger woman who “did not appear to be his daughter,” another patron, who was “concerned about her well-being,” reported Friday night. But she was the man’s daughter.

A 31-year-old man faces felony charges for possessing forged documents following a traffic stop in Sag Harbor early Friday morning.

The Animal Rescue Fund's Stroll to the Sea fund-raiser, the annual two-mile dog walk from Mulford Farm to Main Beach and back, will take place Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon.

A cyclist was transported to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Friday afternoon after colliding with a BMW sedan on Route 114 in East Hampton.

The Springs Food Pantry’s annual Chowdah Chowdown fund-raiser will return to the Springs Tavern and Grill on Saturday afternoon with all-you-can-eat chowder and soup from local chefs, live music by Josh Brussell, a mocktail bar, and a 50-50 raffle with a cash prize.

East Hampton Village announced this week that the current occupant of the village-owned concession at the Main Beach pavilion, Susan Seekamp’s Beach Hut on Main, won the bid to continue operating for five more years.

This autograph book kept by Mary Howard Greene Thompson between 1830 and 1839 is an early version of today’s school yearbook, with messages and drawings left by friends and family to be read when they were apart.

On Wednesday at 6 p.m., the East Hampton School Board will hold the second of four public meetings to gather ideas from the community as the district prepares to put a $64 million capital improvement bond on the May 2026 ballot.

CMEE and John Jermain celebrate birthdays, and the East Hampton Library welcomes teens for snacks, crafts, and SAT prep.

David Seeler, a respected landscape architect and owner of the Bayberry Nursery in Amagansett for many years, died of acute myeloid leukemia on Sept. 28 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. He was 83.

The family of Devin Brevard will receive visitors on Friday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton, and again on Saturday at 11 a.m. at Calvary Baptist Church here.

Increasingly stronger and more persistent winds, especially from the northeast or northwest, portend that there really are only a few weeks of fishable days remaining. Time is getting short, inshore and especially offshore.

All the high school sports competition for the week ahead.

Readers weigh in. And weigh in some more.

In 1900, the friendly neighborhood Star evoked sizzling sausages and hot griddle cakes to welcome fall. And other, more prosaic entries from our past pages.

Democrats have begun winning the messaging battle, shifting attention from military deployments intended to rile up protests in blue-state cities to highlight the White House’s made-up narrative that the country is going to hell.

Freelance writers are turning in stories to weekly newspapers composed in the dulcet tones and smooth rhythms of ChatGPT-generated text. Here are some tips to detecting it.