The Emergency Services Building was crowded with Blue at Friday’s East Hampton Village Board meeting, which featured Police Chief Jeff Erickson handing out awards and a promotion. Mayor Jerry Larsen also took part, handing out a new Top Cop award, which he said will be an annual event. 

Police and firefighters responded to Apaquogue Road following a call of a gas leak on the morning of March 18. They arrived to find a landscaper who told them he’d struck a gas line in the road while digging a hole.

Two fires were reported in town last week, one in East Hampton and one in Springs. 

You’ve just struck the mother lode of local public opinion.

Adam Potter’s project at 7 and 11 Bridge Street in Sag Harbor took another step forward Tuesday evening, when the Sag Harbor Village Planning Board unanimously voted to deem the draft environmental impact statement on the project complete.

A surge in South Fork real estate transactions? Dig in.

The Sag Harbor Village Board met Saturday afternoon to hold a public workshop on the village’s accessory dwelling unit laws, discussing ways the village can make it easier for people to build them on their properties, particularly on those that already have a pre-existing structure. 

The East Hampton Town Board voted last Thursday night to change a formula in the zoning code that ties the maximum gross floor area of a residence to the size of its lot. 

After almost 40 years at art galleries in Atlanta and New York City, Mary Gail Doerhoefer has realized her dream of merging art and nature at LongHouse.

The Sag Harbor Cinema will show seven classic comedies directed by Ernst Lubitsch in the 1930s and '40s, all brimming with "the Lubitsch touch."

The Church in Sag Harbor will host a talk by Paulo Josepetti, a fashion designer, a four-hands piano concert by the Shelest Piano Duo, and a paper-flower workshop.

The Choral Society of the Hamptons' spring concert will feature contemplative and calming music by Liszt and Fauré.

Stage debut for "Strangelove," tribute to female rockers, "12 Angry Men" in Riverhead, doc festival and drag bingo at LTV, comedy in Southampton.

A panel discussion at the Southampton Arts Center will feature six artists who are exhibiting in "East End Collected 8."

Pinot Noir class at Park Place, new menu from Loaves and Fishes, panel on dining in the Hamptons, Dopo la Spiaggia to reopen, events at Sparkling Pointe.

Against an older, bigger Panama squad that was just as quick, Bridgehampton High’s boys basketball team staged an extraordinary second-half comeback Saturday in the state Class D final, losing in the end 78-69.

Bridgehampton High School’s boys basketball team went into Friday’s state Class D semifinal with perhaps more confidence than it should have, for Loudonville Christian proved to be a formidable foe, overcoming seemingly comfortable Bee leads on several occasions before yielding in the end, 63-53.

A hearing officer assigned by the New York State Education Department to determine whether disciplinary charges should be brought against Maria Dorr, who was placed on paid leave in January of last year after being accused of stealing a $25 gift card, has found Ms. Dorr not guilty and ordered the district to reinstate her as principal and expunge the charges from her personnel record. 

Despite division, the East Hampton Town Board was set to approve a plan to reduce the maximum gross-floor-area formula, a part of the town’s zoning code that ties the maximum square footage of a house to the size of its lot. With two holdouts on the board, there was still enough support for a cap of 7 percent of a lot plus 1,500 square feet.

Tom Preiato’s friendly, matter-of-fact style has served him well in the 25 years he has been a building inspector on the South Fork, working for East Hampton Town, Sag Harbor Village, and East Hampton Village. Though he has at times been a “building inspector to the stars,” the soon-to-be retired Mr. Preiato said, “I’m just a regular guy. I don’t get caught up with who they are.”