“Dark sky” advocates are concerned about East Hampton Town’s plan to convert all streetlights in the town to LEDs, worrying that a "color temperature" of 2700 kelvin is not dark-sky-friendly enough.

A March 2018 lawsuit filed against East Hampton Town on behalf of Wainscott residents whose wells were discovered to be contaminated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) is treading water as hundreds of similar lawsuits make their way through the court system.

Tuesday’s primary election will determine the Republican Party’s nominee for New York’s First Congressional District. Nicholas LaLota, Anthony Figliola, and Michelle Bond are vying for the nomination

A seemingly routine request for a new crosswalk at the Amber Waves market, the hugely popular farm market just west of the Amagansett Firehouse, set off a series of increasingly testy exchanges at the August meeting of the hamlet’s citizens advisory committee.

It's news that neither a commercial bayman nor those who enjoy bay scallops wanted to hear: For the fourth summer in a row, there has been a significant die-off of mature bay scallops in local waters.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk, which monitors enterococcus bacteria and blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, levels in local waters, has issued a warning about rising levels of the latter in Fort Pond in Montauk, which the group has been monitoring since June.

Christopher Clapp, who chaired East Hampton Town’s Water Quality Technical Advisory Committee since its inception, has left the committee as he takes on the role of executive director of the Ocean Sewage Alliance.

After yet another hour in front of the town planning board last week, all that stood between Hero Beach, Montauk’s westernmost resort, and its application to convert two units into a kitchen was a handful of words and two lawyers.

This early photograph shows a group of people in the surf, identified as “Maidstone Club Bathers,” with the esteemed Dr. Everett Herrick in the middle of it all.

This summer marks the first time the Amagansett Library has had a staff member dedicated to teen programming and involvement. Kimberly Parry, the library’s new head of adult and teen services, was born and raised in Sag Harbor, and previously worked at the John Jermain Memorial Library there. She is working to construct a relaxing and welcoming space within the library’s walls for the teens of Amagansett.

School districts across the region are encouraging families in need to apply for a federally funded school meal program that allows schools to provide both breakfast and lunch for free or at reduced cost.

In this week's lineup for kids, teens, and families: A fairy parade, movies and stories, butterflies and birding, and more.

The criminal case against Charles Streep of East Hampton and Manhattan, stemming from a highly publicized altercation in a bank parking lot two summers ago, ended in December when Mr. Streep pleaded guilty to a greatly reduced charge of disorderly conduct. His adversary has since filed a civil case against him.

There were numerous reports of vandalism via spray paint and graffiti in East Hampton Village last Thursday, beginning with a police car that was parked in the lot behind headquarters on North Main Street. Someone sprayed its entire passenger-side blue.

After receiving a congratulatory call on the afternoon of July 27, an East Hampton woman thought she had won $25 million in a Publisher’s Clearing House giveaway. All she had to do to collect, said the caller, was to wire $850 to an undisclosed Chase Bank branch. She contacted police last Thursday after realizing she’d been scammed.

Bike vs. car; dump drunk vs. Suburban, Suburban vs. Suburban.

A charge of third-degree assault followed a car accident that led to an altercation.

In on accident in Springs at around 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 9, a 2005 Audi left the road and hit a retaining wall, a basketball hoop, and a mailbox at a house on Guernsey Lane, sustaining significant damange. A trail of fluid from the accident led police to the vehicle, which the driver had parked at her nearby home.

The manager at Sag Harbor’s popular Corner Bar, told Sag Village police last Thursday morning that a patron who had become ill after eating a dish of mussels was harassing the restaurant.

After police pulled over a Sagaponack man for going 90 miles per hour ina. 30 m.p.h. zone, a slew of charges followed incouding two felonies and misdemeanors for allegedly driving while intoxicated.