The Amagansett Library has launched a menstrual-health donation drive, ongoing through Aug. 20, to support Hamptons Community Outreach, which works with underserved children, families, and seniors by combating food insecurity, providing tutoring, holding diaper drives, fund-raising for home repairs, and other kinds of crisis intervention.

Whether it evokes sweet, sweet memories of disco days gone by or echoes of a bad hangover, news of the impending demolition of a famous Three Mile Harbor roadhouse probably provoked a few feelings. Stephanie Krikorian uncovers the colorful history of the building that was once Mellow Mouth and the Jag — a bastion of the East End’s lost nightclub culture

Fourteen people including Abigail Disney, a great-niece of Walt Disney and an activist who supports raising taxes on the wealthy, were arrested at East Hampton Town Airport on Friday after blocking vehicles from entering or exiting the airport's parking lot for about 90 minutes. One activist described the demonstration as intending to call out "the very grotesque, reckless consumption of the 1 percent" and its impact on climate change.

The Clamshell Foundation's annual Grucci fireworks show will light up the skies over Three Mile Harbor on Saturday night, Sunday if it rains, and the harbor will be closed to shellfishing that day and for four days afterward.

The Clamshell Foundation's annual Grucci fireworks show will light up the skies over Three Mile Harbor on Saturday night, Sunday if it rains, and the harbor will be closed to shellfishing that day and for four days afterward.

Is it a lingering trace of Puritan thrift, or a hangover from the days when families scoured the shore for flotsam and jetsam? We're not sure, but when it comes to our unwanted stuff — outgrown bassinet, overgrown ficus, plastic pool lounger about to be upgraded to teak — what goes around stays around, out here. J Brooke reflects on the salvage culture of the South Fork

Beatty Cohan, a psychotherapist, sex therapist, and advice columnist, will share tips for finding that special someone with a little help from popular dating apps during a program on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the East Hampton Library.

Tom Flight, a Democratic Party candidate for the East Hampton Town Board, is on the road to recovery after spending four days at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital following a seizure on July 4. 

East Hampton Town’s forests are under assault from multiple species, the town board was told on Tuesday, and while invasive insects are a major component of the ongoing threat to them, “more aggressive deer management” was the recommendation to alleviate forest degradation.

Rip currents kept East Hampton Town and Village lifeguards busy over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, but this week the story was less red flags and more “elevated marine life”: Some 20 sharks, mostly spinner sharks but also threshers, were spotted off Main Beach on Saturday and farther off town beaches as well.

Harvested for bait and their blood, horseshoe crabs, which have endured on earth for over nearly 500 million years, are in a state of decline in the New York area.

No specials, pre-K, or field trips: barebones budget means “we’re going to have to get creative” in the classrooms, said Deborah Haab, Wainscott’s part-time superintendent.

The first substantive discussion of progress made by a work group charged with amending East Hampton Town’s zoning code happened at the town board’s work session on Tuesday, and many of the dozen residents who spoke about it during the meeting’s 90-minute public comment period tied the effort to curb development to the myriad manifestations of environmental degradation and climate change throughout the United States and around the world.

Jimmy Buffett took his legendary island-music vibes to Sag Harbor’s WLNG radio station on Sunday, dropping by to premiere a new song, “My Gummy Just Kicked In,” on the local airwaves.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board held a “wrap-up discussion” on June 28 about a stripped-down site plan application from Rita Cantina, the Mexican restaurant located in a residential neighborhood in Springs. In order to speed approval, the restaurant has removed several proposed points of contention, among them an outdoor patio with seating area, parking for catering trailers, grills, and lighting.

Violations for the illegal taking of shellfish from East Hampton Town waters could be elevated to aggravated charges. The town board considered an amendment to the town code toward that end last Thursday.

A proposed teardown project on Oyster Shores Road in East Hampton, which came before the zoning board of appeals at a public hearing late last month, raised the question of whether more weight should be given to proposed improvements to a parcel and its surroundings, or to the dictates of the town zoning code.

In a pilot composting effort aimed at diverting, recovering, and reusing residential food scraps to create compost and return it to the soil, East Hampton Compost will receive food scraps at farmers markets in Springs and Sag Harbor to start.

The East Hampton Town Trustees were agreeable to the proposed rebuilding of a bulkhead on Three Mile Harbor when they met on Monday. They were also amenable to a proposed installation, behind that bulkhead, of a permeable reactive barrier — typically a long, narrow trench filled with a material such as iron, limestone, carbon, or mulch to remove contaminants as groundwater passes through it — that would prevent an estimated 500 pounds of nitrogen from entering the water body annually.

An East Hampton High School alumnus and local business owner has proposed building 20 townhouse-style residential units on the north end of the school’s campus, as part of a larger plan to address the critical shortage of affordable housing in town.