Amid all the condo controversy, the town board made time for a presentation on the town’s C.P.F.-funded water quality improvement program so it could be heard by the maximum number of people.

The bad news is the numbers of piping plover fledglings in East Hampton Town was down in 2025. The good news is the number is still better than in 2023.

A proposal by members of East Hampton Town’s agricultural advisory committee to create a new way to review building projects at farms gained traction last week when it was presented to the town board and town planning director.

Following East Hampton Town Planning Board enthusiasm for renewed plans for an extension and renovation of the Neighborhood House, now used by Project Most, the architectural review board also welcomed the new plans, which aim to save the historic structure.

A Cassin’s sparrow, the first ever reported in Suffolk County and only the second ever in New York State, has been found off the parking lot at Montauk State Park.

A plan to replace street lighting in Amagansett’s historic district had called for 46 to 50 “historical style” light fixtures. On Monday night, the plan drew a strong critique from New York State’s representative of DarkSky International.

Pediatricians on the South Fork were harshly critical of the federal Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ vote to recommend that pregnant women who test negative for hepatitis B should decide when or if their child will be vaccinated against the virus at birth.

The fourth annual Magic of Montauk Holiday Fair, complete with Santa Claus, live reindeer, a hot cocoa contest, live music, and, for the first time, a holiday train, happens on Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. on the downtown green.

A fish dropped from the sky lands in a Montauk living room with a heavy message of . . . accepting death?

This 1989 photo from The Star’s archive shows Rabbi David Greenberg and Cantor Debra Stein lighting three candles to celebrate the third night of Hanukkah at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons.

Rabbi Josh Franklin has announced that he will join Temple Judea, a Reform synagogue in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., in July.

A caller reported a “suspicious package” near the westbound Jitney Stop on Main Street in the village Saturday, describing it as a suitcase next to a garbage can. When police arrived, an 89-year-old woman standing next to the suitcase informed them that it was hers.

A 70-year-old man from the Bronx was seriously injured in an e-bike accident in Montauk late Tuesday afternoon.

The Springs School Diversity Club went on a field trip to the Springs Presbyterian Church’s food pantry to assemble food bags for families in need.

A service for Michael Kinney of Montauk will be held at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

In praise of mom-and-pops, Doc Fest, and blue jeans, plus Larsen, Larsen, Larsen.

“Remember, reader, this is the season to emphasize the Scripture quotation: ‘Peace on earth, good will to men.’ ” So sayeth The Star in 1900. Have things really changed all that much?

Many New Yorkers’ health coverage is in real jeopardy.

From the Jan. 6 insurrectionists to George Santos to Honduran ex-President Juan Orlando Hernandez, Donald Trump has made an art of opening the jailhouse doors.

Marigolds are survivors, deterring deer and cold and coming back year after year when the seedpods are left among the leaf litter at the end of the growing season.