Nearly a quarter of the East Hampton Village Ambulance Association’s volunteer corps has resigned since the East Hampton Village Board introduced a plan on March 2 to create a new Department of Emergency Medical Services to oversee the ambulance service.

Reflecting a trend among police agencies across the country, officers of the East Hampton Town and Sag Harbor Village Police Departments will soon be outfitted with body cameras thanks to grants received from New York State's Department of Criminal Justice Services.

The annual Am O'Gansett Parade happens on Saturday at noon on the hamlet's Main Street. This year, Joe and Sal LaCarrubba will serve as grand marshals.

The East Hampton Town Planning Board was left with two bad options for a cell tower at the tiny St. Peter’s Chapel in Springs, and a litigation-imposed mandate to choose one by April 24. Cingular Wireless, operating as AT&T, requires approval of a special permit from the board to go ahead with construction.

History is repeating itself on Montauk’s ocean shoreline, where erosion has once again prompted officials in East Hampton Town’s Land Management Department to recommend a landward rerouting of bluff trails in Shadmoor State Park and the adjacent Rheinstein Nature Preserve.

The proposed Wainscott Commercial Center has had a series of setbacks in recent weeks, most recently and perhaps most importantly on Tuesday night, when the East Hampton Town Zoning Board of Appeals was unanimous in its decision that a special permit was required for the planned industrial park proposed for the spent sand mine.

With a looming northeaster that brought abundant wind and rain this week, the sea-to-shore interconnection of the South Fork Wind farm’s onshore transmission cable with the submarine export cable that will link the wind farm with the electric grid would have to wait.

East Hampton Town is about to solicit participation in a public survey regarding the town’s goal to derive communitywide energy needs through renewable sources by 2030.

Most waters under East Hampton Town Trustee jurisdiction were usually healthy in 2022, the trustees were told on Monday, but the consequences of land use continue to impair some water bodies in the form of excessive nitrogen via ground and surface water runoff.

The East Hampton Historical Society is seeking a special permit and several variances from the village zoning board of appeals to bring 2023-level technology to a new barn at the Mulford Farm that would house its growing collection of historical artifacts.

A retired East Hampton builder is raising money to bring a mobile trailer resembling a small house — complete with kitchen, living room, and bedroom — to the community here to teach kids what to do if a fire breaks out at home.

Two conclusions emerged when Christine Cleary, principal of the Springs School, did a deep dive into the data surrounding her students’ proficiency levels in English and math.

The East Hampton Town Board will not vote on a resolution regarding a May turkey hunt before April 6, the board said on Tuesday.

Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. of Sag Harbor has signed on as a co-sponsor of three bills aimed at updating and balancing the state’s system of designating money for schools, which were introduced by Assemblyman Nader J. Sayegh of Yonkers. “More and more demands are being placed on local school districts to meet higher standards. . . . To achieve better quality education for all, there must be adequate support from the state,” he said in a statement.

Bay Street Theater has put out a call to teen writers to enter its Writing the Wave: The 2023 New Works Creative Writing Competition. Plus: St. Patrick's Day fun, a library escape room, arts and crafts, and kids' movies coming up this week.

A confused driver reported a traffic hazard at around 7:30 a.m. on March 7. The light at the three-way intersection of Baiting Hollow Road, Toilsome Lane, and Woods Lane appeared to have been turned so that it faced the wrong direction. Police blamed the wind and called for maintenance on the light.

A 39-year-old Florida man has been charged in East Hampton Town with felony criminal contempt after a domestic incident in which police said he showed up drunk at a Montauk residence and harassed a person whom he had been ordered to stay away from.

This ribboned wedding invitation from the Springs Historical Society collection heralded the marriage of Hiram Miller and Emma Edwards in Springs in 1887.

Anthony Newell Tyson of East Hampton, an interior designer who also worked in construction, real estate, filmmaking, and antiques dealing, died on Feb. 27 of vascular dementia and kidney disease. He was 78.

Rosemary Herrick Jackson, a graphic designer and photographer who became an ordained Episcopal priest in her 50s and opened her own retreat center, died on Feb. 14 in Newport, R.I. Known as Posy, she was 75.