This photograph shows a 1937 house, once at 81 Dunemere Lane, that “shook” East Hampton as it was “not traditional.”

An East Hampton man received some scary phone calls on March 15. The caller said he’d kidnapped the man’s wife and demanded $3,000 to release her. The man was told to go to a Mastic 7-Eleven with the money and warned not to talk to anyone about it.

“It’s been my pleasure, and honor, to serve as the village’s chief engineer for the last four years,” East Hampton Village Fire Chief Gerard Turza Jr. told the village board as he prepared to pass on the title of chief to Duane Forrester.

Town police charged three East Hampton men with driving while intoxicated last week.

Around dinnertime on April 18, an East Quogue woman was headed east on Montauk Highway near Sayre’s Path in Wainscott when her 2007 Honda crossed the double yellow lines into the westbound lane, and crashed head-on into a 2007 Toyota.

Gilbert A. Weber, who was 90 and lived in East Hampton, died in his sleep on Easter morning at Peconic Bay Medical Center in Riverhead. He had multiple health complications.

Florence Thiele and her husband, the late Roger H. Thiele, started spending time in East Hampton at his parents’ house on Lily Pond Lane in the early 1950s. Mrs. Thiele died of congestive heart failure on April 15 at Mariner Sands, a private community in Stuart, Fla. She was 94 and had been ill for only a short time.

A nurse and East Hampton resident for many years, Margaret Hannibal died on April 2 in Asheville, N.C., where she had lived near her sons for the past five years. She was 85 and had been in declining health.

Stephen Peter Sicilian of East Hampton, a child psychologist who was the founder and executive director of East End Kids Therapy, died on April 12 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton after a long illness. He was 71.

Joan M. Eichhorn, a former East Hampton Town employee who was born on Atlantic Avenue in Amagansett, died on Nov. 27 at the Hamptons Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing in Southampton, The Star has learned. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease. She was 87.

As I perused the selection of seafood on display at Schiavoni’s in Sag Harbor the other day, an elderly gentleman peering into the saltwater holding tank with about a dozen lobsters in it said to me, “I’d love to buy one, but not at this price.”

Lona Rubenstein of Amagansett may be better known in recent years as a world-class poker player, but long before she took up that game, she was a champion in table tennis, competing nationally and internationally.

East Hampton High’s softball team busted out here on Saturday, pummeling Harborfields 27-1 in a league game that was foreshortened by “the mercy rule” after five innings of play.

Though East Hampton lost two to Miller Place, with Colin Ruddy on the mound Bonac blanked the Panthers 1-0 here on April 20, a pitching gem that topped a story on Suffolk’s mound aces in Saturday’s Newsday.

A bill sponsored in the State Legislature by Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. may represent the beginning of a big step forward on easing the region’s attainable housing crisis.

What exactly is the far right trying to “save” New York from?

Important decisions are being made behind closed doors and without the full village board’s knowledge.

The East Hampton Town Trustees eventually had to take on the question of a scholarship named for William J. Rysam, an enslaver of other human beings.

When they talk about the birth of their second daughter, Cody and Lauren Vichinsky will have quite the story to tell.

I never liked the happy-clappy bright yellow of spring’s early buds.