The blaze that destroyed a house at 3 Fair Hills Lane in Bridgehampton Friday night had been "unfortunately burning for quite a while before anyone dialed 911," according to Nick Hemby, the chief of the Bridgehampton Fire Department.

A fire completely destroyed one house on Fair HIlls Lane in Bridgehampton and damaged three others, one of them severely, late Friday night, according to Southampton Town police.

A fire completely destroyed one house on Fair HIlls Lane in Bridgehampton and damaged three others, one of them severely, late Friday night, according to Southampton Town police.

The East Hampton Ladies Village Improvement Society Fair will be held on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at its shops and headquarters at 95 Main Street.

Voters in East Hampton Village will go to the polls to fill two open seats on the village board on June 21, as the incumbent, Arthur Graham, seeks to hold his spot against Carrie Doyle and Sarah Amaden, who are running together on the NewTown Party line.

Andrea Rivera Sagbay and Joey Suter of East Hampton High School have received prestigious scholarships in recognition of their achievements.

Andrea Rivera Sagbay and Joey Suter of East Hampton High School have received prestigious scholarships in recognition of their achievements.

The nonprofit organization East End Arts presented the annual Teeny Awards on Sunday to students named outstanding performers in school plays and musicals, including four from the South Fork.

Registration is still open for the Robert J. Aaron Memorial Triathlon that is to be held at the intersection of West Lake Drive and Star Island Causeway in Montauk on Saturday morning.

Parents and guardians of students who attend the Springs School and John M. Marshall Elementary School can now register their children for Project Most's after-school program for the 2022-23 school year.

Dylan Cashin, an East Hampton High School sophomore, has qualified for the 2,000-meter steeplechase at the Nike Outdoor Nationals in Oregon.

The life of a New York cinephile who for a half-century was a major player in movie theaters and distribution.

After putting its seaplane service from New York City to Sag Harbor on hold last week, the helicopter and seaplane company Blade Air Mobility resumed service to Sag Harbor on Tuesday.

A microscopic wormlike creature is rapidly killing American and European beech trees on the East End, and there is not much to be done about it. Beech leaf disease appears to have started in the United States in Ohio sometime before 2012. By 2019, it was on Long Island.

East Hampton's first annual Pride parade took place on Saturday and it was a joyous, color-popping celebration of freedom and equality that attracted members of the L.G.B.T.Q.+ community, their allies, clergy, local politicians, storekeepers, well-wishers, the young, the old, and the curious.

New York State Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a package of 10 bills aimed at reducing gun violence on Monday. Her key challenger, Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District, said at a campaign event last month that a raft of laws regulating possession of guns should be overturned.

By all accounts, the highly savored scallop is very much imperiled. But can the popular bivalve, which lives for upward of 22 months, be saved?

Saturday is Dragonfly Day in New York State, and Southampton Town, Friends of the Long Pond Greenbelt, and the New York League of Conservation Voters are marking the occasion by sponsoring Dragonfly Day and Green Expo, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the South Fork Natural History Museum and Nature Center in Bridgehampton.

Supporters of the campaign to transform the Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s Sag Harbor waterfront property into a writers’ retreat got some good news last week: Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. has nominated the project to receive a state grant of $500,000 toward its purchase.

The East Hampton Town Board voted to allow for adjudication of code violations by an administrative bureau established last year to expedite the processing of minor violations. The town is seeking a director for the bureau, a prerequisite for putting it into effect.