As it had signaled following a public hearing in October, the East Hampton Town Board voted on Tuesday to ban the sale of balloons filled with helium or any other type of lighter-than-air gas. The prohibition will take effect on Jan. 1.

The East Hampton Town Board voted unanimously to opt out of allowing cannabis retail dispensaries or on-site consumption licenses on Dec. 2.

“It’s fun to have buddies,” Keira Huerta said, “because you don’t have to be alone.”

Keira, a first grader at the John M. Marshall Elementary School, summed it up perfectly as one of about a dozen students who told the East Hampton School Board last week that they really like their buddy program, which pairs fourth graders with first graders for educational activities and playtime.

It’s got a new name and a new look, but its goals have not changed.

The East Hampton Education Foundation has officially dropped “Greater” from its name, hoping that the community will more easily recognize it and connect to its mission, which is to “enrich the lives of students in East Hampton public schools by supporting superior educational and wellness programs.”

The Hampton Library’s popular gingerbread cookie-decorating program happens on Saturday. Kids and their families can also choose from lots of other activities coming up.

In a case that started in August 2020 with two felony charges following an alleged road-rage fight in East Hampton Village, which left a Springs teenager with severe brain injuries, Charles Streep left the East Hampton Town Justice Court Wednesday having accepted a plea deal: guilty of disorderly conduct for obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

In a case that started in August 2020 with two felony charges following an alleged road-rage fight in East Hampton Village, which left a Springs teenager with severe brain injuries, Charles Streep left the East Hampton Town Justice Court Wednesday having accepted a plea deal: guilty of disorderly conduct for obstructing vehicular or pedestrian traffic.

A New York City woman staying at a house in Montauk thought she saw a prowler on the property while walking her dog at around 1 a.m. on Saturday. The only thing an officer noticed was fresh deer tracks in the yard.

An 80-year-old man was hit by a car as he was walking across Springs-Fireplace Road near Copeces Lane in Springs at around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 6.

On Friday, after receiving a complaint that a man had sexually abused a young girl multiple times over a 10-month time period, East Hampton Town police charged a 49-year-old from Bridgehampton with a felony count of sexual conduct with a child under 13.

After a 77-year-old woman was injured in a two-vehicle collision last Thursday evening, East Hampton Town police charged the driver of the other vehicle with two counts of driving while intoxicated and one count of leaving the scene of an accident with injuries.

This will, part of the Isaac Edwards Deed Collection donated by Bess Rattray, is the perfect example of how one will can give genealogists a lot of material to work with.

Carol G. Walter, who came to East Hampton with her parents in the late 1940s, died of organ failure on Aug. 11 in Manhattan, The Star has learned. She was 93.

Alexander Russo, who bought a house in Springs in 1958, has 84 works documenting World War II in the Navy Art Collection in Washington, D.C. He died on Nov. 28 at the age of 99.

A Suffolk County Supreme Court judge last week dismissed a suit brought against the Ross School, its then-chief administrator, and four of its faculty members by a former student, who claimed he was bullied and alleged the teachers were negligent in their chaperoning duties during an overseas field trip in 2020.

John Hatleberg, widely considered the world's foremost counterfeiter of famous diamonds, will be the next speaker in Knowledge Fridays, the monthly lecture series at The Church in Sag Harbor, on Friday at 6:30 p.m.

Jeffrey Sussman weaves together tales of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, how they put their lives on the line to oppose a maniacal regime.

Stephen Laub's art explores the personal and the historical in multiple mediums.

Rifts continue to grow in the LongHouse Reserve community in the wake of Matko Tomicic's dismissal and other controversial moves.

The Choral Society will postpone its holiday concert to a date in mid-January because of a Covid-19 exposure within the group.