A buy-a-brick campaign has been started to help defray the cost of creating the John L. Behan Memorial Park on the corner of Flamingo Avenue and West Lake Drive in Montauk.

East Hampton and Amagansett firefighters were dispatched at 11:42 p.m. Tuesday to 74 Oakview Highway in East Hampton, where they found a small cottage engulfed in flames.

The office of New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli on Friday released an audit report indicating Sag Harbor let some minor claims errors slip by between July 1, 2020, and March 31, 2022. The report states that “although all claims were appropriate, audited, and approved before payment, the claims auditor did not ensure claims were supported.”

For Yani Cuesta, East Hampton High School’s girls winter track coach, Saturday was memorable not only because of its subzero temperatures, but also for the fact that her 4-by-400 relay team of Leslie Samuel, Melina Sarlo, Meredith Spolarich, and Ryleigh O’Donnell won that event in 4 minutes and 16.10 seconds.

Jack Perna doesn’t have any children of his own, but at the Montauk School, where he has worked since February 1973 and been superintendent and principal since 1995, he has helped guide thousands of students through their formative years.

This year's African-American Read-In in Sag Harbor takes place tomorrow starting at 6 p.m. in the John Jermain Memorial Library's rotunda. The theme is Black resistance.

The Trust for Public Land, working with Suffolk County, is moving forward on an ambitious and long-desired plan for a Long Island Greenway that could eventually bless bicyclists with 175 miles of Island-spanning trails, from Manhattan to Montauk.

Stargazing, bocce ball, and a continued landing site for medevac helicopters? Those are just three proposals for the 18.8-acre Amagansett Plains Preserve under a management plan being considered by the East Hampton Town Board.

Project Most’s effort to build its new, state-of-the-art community learning center at 92 Three Mile Harbor Road is in full swing, with a $10 million fund-raising campaign and discussions with the East Hampton Town Planning Board formally underway.

Kenny’s Tipperary Inn in Montauk was the scene last month of the arrest, on numerous criminal charges, of two brothers in a case that has since raised questions about their past business practices.

The 2023-24 school budget cycle is in full swing, and at least one local school district — Sag Harbor — has proposed a preliminary budget with a tax-levy increase that doesn’t rise to the maximum allowed by New York State. This is unusual because most school districts tend to go right up to their allowable increases, but it’s not unusual for Sag Harbor, which has been a few percentage points under the maximum almost every year since the tax-cap legislation took effect in 2012.

Catch Pierson High School students' photos on display through the end of February. Plus: Valentine's Day crafts galore, STEM activities, art workshops, and more for kids and teens.

Red-breasted mergansers rely on the open waters of our winter bays and harbors from November until April. They’ll be there if you walk anywhere along the bay side of the South Fork, between Southampton and Montauk. While they prefer salt water, they also frequent Hook Pond, Sagaponack Pond, and Georgica Pond.

The East Hampton Town Board is looking to adopt new language in the town code to guide the scope and construction of accessory dwelling units, as part of its push to encourage creation of more affordable housing.

Amid a flurry of resolutions on Tuesday that saw the East Hampton Town Board approve the services of myriad lawyers and law firms, there was one that will increase last year’s cap for legal services paid to Cooley L.L.P., one of its outside airport legal advisers, by about half a million dollars.

On Feb. 1, a pricey wine refrigerator was reported stolen from a house under construction at 65 Milton Avenue in Sag Harbor, where, police noted, there had been many workers lately on a job site that was not properly secured.

East Hampton Town Justice Lisa R. Rana has dismissed charges against five of the people who faced disorderly conduct violations stemming from the “tax the rich” protests in East Hampton Village and at the East Hampton Airport last summer.

Big winds, accompanied by a brutal blast of cold weather, brought reports last weekend of numerous downed tree limbs across the area, blowing garbage from an overstuffed Dumpster, frozen pipes that burst in the cold, and one wind-damaged car.

East Hampton Town police reported just one drunken-driving arrest last week.

This photo shows a group gathered in front of the East Hampton Steam Laundry, which experienced several fires, a variety of owners, and a number of iterations.