Blade Air Mobility and East End Hangars, which are among the plaintiffs that successfully sought a temporary restraining order preventing closure of East Hampton Airport on May 16, claim that the town is violating the terms of that order and have petitioned the New York State Supreme Court to hold it in contempt and impose daily fines to bring the town into compliance.

The Biden-Harris administration has announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is initiating a process to designate Hudson Canyon, America's deepest Atlantic Ocean canyon, as a new national marine sanctuary.

Even as municipalities have done their part by opting in or out to recreational marijuana sales and on-site cafes or lounges, legalization is in a state of flux in New York while the Office of Cannabis Management acts to put regulatory muscle on the bones of the Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act.

One-quarter of households in East Hampton Town are spending at least half of their income on housing, and more than 70 percent of renters and more than 33 percent of mortgage holders are spending at least 35 percent of their income on housing. With that in mind, the town is drafting a community housing fund project plan to detail how proceeds from a new .5-percent transfer tax could be spent if voters approve the tax in November.

Gov. Kathy Hochul and Representative Lee Zeldin are comfortably ahead of their respective challengers in the June 28 primary election for governor of New York, according to a poll conducted last Thursday and Friday and released on Monday.

Every one of East Hampton Town’s 729 streetlights will be replaced with energy-efficient LED lights within the next year or so, and the town has asked residents to weigh in on what type of light they’d prefer.

The League of Women Voters of the Hamptons, Shelter Island, and North Fork has announced that the New York State League’s online voters guide, at vote411.org, is live with nonpartisan information on the Democratic and Republican candidates for the June 28 state primary election for governor and lieutenant governor.

This historical Y.A. novel follows a forced evacuation from Nova Scotia, and a teenage girl who lands in colonial East Hampton.

This year, June 19 will be the first time Juneteenth is observed in East Hampton. Now a federal holiday, Juneteenth marks the date in 1865 when the last enslaved people in Texas, the last state of the Confederacy with institutional slavery, were freed. There will be events across the South Fork starting Thursday.

As long ago as 1936, when T. Gilbert Pearson published “Birds of America,” purple martins were almost exclusively dependent on man-made housing. Here on the East End, they arrive in early April to the houses waiting for them and by Labor Day they're gone.

After months of discussion and planning, the Sag Harbor Village Board on Tuesday approved affordable housing legislation, including three amendments to the existing housing rules, which was met with applause from some 50 people in attendance at the meeting.

Concerned Citizens of Montauk and officials of East Hampton Town’s Natural Resources Department held an “open house” at South Lake Drive in that hamlet on Friday, where they detailed efforts to restore Lake Montauk’s water quality.

In the last week, dozens of pelagic seabirds that that seldom come to land have washed up on East End beaches either dead or in very poor condition.

Jack and Fran Levy, who own the circa-1895 G.A. Strong House on Georgica Road, an early East Hampton “summer colony” residence that is on the National Register of Historic Places, brought an unusual proposal before the East Hampton Village Zoning Board of Appeals on Friday.

East Hampton Village’s proposed 2022-23 budget — at just over $25 million — will be the subject of a public hearing Friday at 11 a.m.

In celebration of East Hampton High School’s graduation, this week’s “Item of the Week” features the 1959 East Hampton High School yearbook, Sand ‘n’ Surf. On June 21, 1959, 60 seniors received their diplomas during graduation ceremonies on the front lawn of the high school.

Two major transitions at the Springs School this year, a return to a nine-period schedule and the implementation of a “restorative justice” discipline policy, have met or exceeded expectations, school officials reported during a school board meeting on Tuesday.

James Farrell of East Hampton and Troy Remkus of Sag Harbor are the latest local teens to achieve the highest honor the Boy Scouts community has to offer — that of the Eagle Scout.

The East End Fund for Children, a coalition of seven local nonprofits dedicated to meeting the needs of the community’s most vulnerable, will once again partner with Citarella, the gourmet food market, in a fund-raising campaign between June 23 and Labor Day weekend.

The fact that Our Fabulous Variety Show’s latest tap-dance production happens to coincide almost exactly with Juneteenth is not intentional, but it does, perhaps, make it a good time to talk about the origins of tap dancing.