Eataly delivers to the East End, "Stirring the Pot" visits Sagaponack Distillery, Springs Brewery launches IPA brewed with honey, Canoe Place Inn offers new dining option.

Jay Rowe of Springs was sentenced to up to 12 years in state prison Thursday for the March 2021 kidnapping and robbery of a woman in Springs, an incident that began in the school parking lot around dismissal time.

While fall is still a glimmer in the eye of those in bumper-to-bumper traffic on Montauk Highway, a few harbingers are beginning to make themselves known. Some of the most reliable indicators that a change of season is not far off are the late-summer teasers provided by the Hamptons International Film Festival for its October program.

Bridgehampton Day, a celebration of the hamlet's history and people, will take place Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m. at the Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center.

The house at 3 Spring Lane in Noyac where two young women died in an early-morning fire on Aug. 3 lacked the permit required under Southampton Town code for property owners who rent out their houses, the town confirmed this week. "There will be charges filed against the homeowners," an assistant town attorney said.

Jacky Loving, a German-born, Montauk-based skater, surfer, paddleboarder, hiker, and all-round adventure-seeker, founded Loving Adventures to teach kids life skills through outdoorsy and challenging sports. “I’m just providing tools to get outside."

Anthony Figliola and Nick LaLota, who are vying with Michelle Bond, for the Republican nomination for New York's First Congressional District, debated the issues with the League of Women Voters this week in advance of the primary on Aug. 23.

Informed that cumulative 2022 air traffic at East Hampton Airport was down by about 28 percent through July, members of the Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee found themselves on Saturday asking, “Really?”

The East Hampton Town Planning Board did not approve Hero Beach’s request to convert its basement into a kitchen at its July 27 meeting. The sticking point was the Montauk motel’s refusal to restrict food service to “overnight guests” rather than just “guests,” and worries about how that seemingly slight difference might affect parking.

The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously last Thursday to revoke all beach driving permits previously issued by the town clerk's office and declare that no permit issued by the town before or after the resolution confers the right to drive on the 4,000-foot stretch of ocean beach at Napeague popularly known as Truck Beach. Postcards mailed to permit-holders will act as temporary permits.

East Hampton Town’s code governing its rental registry may be modified to address updates that an assistant town attorney called “pretty obviously the product of forgery or falsified information.”

East Hampton Town's Coastal Assessment Resiliency Plan, which highlights a spate of ominous predictions as to how climate change will impact the town, is "a nation-leading effort to prepare this town for the future with a lot more water, one where residents will adapt to live with all that water rather than fighting a losing battle against it," one speaker said during a public hearing last week.

National Grid wants to construct two 20,000-gallon fiberglass water tanks at its East Hampton generating station at Cove Hollow Road, but the East Hampton Town Planning Board does not yet have enough information to vote on the plans.

An overflow crowd packed into the Municipal Building in Sag Harbor Tuesday evening on one of the hottest days of the year and half the people were there to talk about Adam Potter’s large-scale development proposal for the village’s office district.

A recent water-quality report from Concerned Citizens of Montauk identified dangerously high levels of the enterococcus bacteria at the East Creek area of Lake Montauk — but the cause remains a mystery.

“Trees at Sunset,” a 1931 painting by Renwick Taylor, has returned to Long Island after many years and will be temporarily exhibited at the Amagansett Library. The painting is a decorative landscape created during Taylor’s residence at Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s estate near Oyster Bay.

Moody’s Investors Service has assigned its highest bond rating, Aaa, to East Hampton Town. The town’s finances have earned the top-tier rating continuously since 2017.

An audit of East Hampton Town for the year ending Dec. 31, 2021, found the town in strong fiscal health, a certified public accountant told the town board on Tuesday.

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming, the presumptive Democratic nominee to represent New York’s recently redrawn First Congressional District, has released results of a poll that shows her in a neck-and-neck race with her potential Republican opponent in the Nov. 8 midterm election.

The Wainscott Citizens Advisory Committee will mostly support a proposal to add new stop signs at intersections on Town Line Road, the street that divides the hamlet from neighboring Sagaponack Village.