Many of the public comments during the East Hampton Town Planning Board’s Oct. 19 public hearing on a 185-foot-tall communications tower at Camp Blue Bay in Springs were not about that tower, but about an unused tower at the Springs Fire Department. That said, all agreed that additional cell and emergency communications service was needed in Springs, and quickly

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Representative Lee Zeldin came out swinging on  Tuesday in what is likely to be their only debate before the Nov. 8 election, and the intensity had hardly flagged when it ended an hour later. 

A 28-year-old Springs man was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving an injury, a felony, after an Oct. 16 incident near the corner of Railroad Avenue and Lumber Lane in East Hampton Village.

A 63-year-old Southampton woman and a 27-year-old Hampton Bays man were charged with driving while intoxicated by town and village police recently.

For anyone trying to put together a last-minute Halloween costume, the Maidstone Club’s 75th anniversary costume party in 1966, featuring 1890s attire, offers some procrastination-friendly inspiration.

Beyond traditional trick-or-treating, kids and teens can take advantage of lots of Halloween events around town over the next few days.

A teen rendition of "Chicago" plus Project Most activities for preschoolers, arts and crafts, movies, and more.

Across Montauk, young people are rallying around Poppy Heart, a haven, they say, for all  things fun and creative. For some, it's even more than that — it's a safe space with a positive role model and mentor in the shop's owner, Tiffany LaBanca.

"The blackfish bite has been very solid," said Ken Morse at Tight Lines Tackle in Sag Harbor. "Lots of small fish, but many are still catching their limits." Surfcasters along the ocean beaches are finding action too.

As they prepare for a Nov. 3 vote on the acquisition of five lots off Marsden Street for athletic fields, Sag Harbor School District officials have found themselves countering an onslaught of what they describe as inaccurate and misleading dialogue circulating on social media, on lawn signs, and in private emails among concerned residents.

Eight of East Hampton High's 11 fall teams, seven of which finished with winning records in league competition, made the postseason, and two of those teams, boys soccer and girls cross-country, were league champions.

The most exciting cross-country meets Kevin Barry has seen in his 35 years of coaching took place within a few minutes of each other at East Hampton High School on Oct. 18.

The 1-5 Bonackers aren't quite there yet, as a 42-7 loss to undefeated Half Hollow Hills West on Saturday showed.

In the race for New York governor, there is only one real choice.

Helicopter companies and others who sued East Hampton Town over its attempt to gain more control of its airport won a temporary victory in state court last week, but the celebration was premature.

On Main Street in East Hampton Village, it never stops.

“You’re wondering why no honking, where are the a-holes? Why is it so peaceful?”

Any trip I make west, at some point past the cultural demarcation of the Shirley-Mastic area, I head back to the future with 90.7 FM, WFUV out of Fordham.

My father leased the Sail Inn for about a decade in the last century, and in doing so drove himself to an early death for ignoring Rule #1 of bar ownership: You can’t be the best customer in your own saloon.

Last year a group of us decided to tackle our ecological despair with action in a landscape we love — East Hampton and eastern Long Island. We started in our own yards.