A tree ultimately stopped Sophie Laffont's Mercedes on Friday, after it struck a fire hydrant on the side of Accabonac Road in East Hampton

The absence of stop signs at a four-way intersection in East Hampton was at least partly to blame for an accident that injured two men on Friday morning.

Colson Whitehead’s penchant for exploring genres takes him to uptown Manhattan in the early 1960s and . . . a furniture salesman?

Amber Waves, a nonprofit farm and market in Amagansett, has a current fund-raising campaign for which it is seeking donations to provide 200 local families with $100 gift cards.

The "Storm Lake" documentary celebrates a small-town, family-owned newspaper struggling to keep its community informed about issues large and small.

A new documentary charts Jacques Cousteau's evolution from inventive and fearless adventurer to farsighted and renowned environmentalist.

Solo shows at Colm Rowan, Tripoli, Ashawagh Hall, and the Watermill Center, plus a Road Show talk and an Afrofuturism panel.

A new director at LongHouse, Jeremy Dennis on a Shinnecock arts center, a virtual writing workshop from Bay Street, and a new home for OFVS.

Short films by Long Island filmmakers at the Hamptons Film Festival focus on sea level rise, farming, class struggles, family, and political activism.

The John and Alice Coltrane Home will be celebrated with a jazz concert featuring Ravi and Michelle Coltrane and a talk about the Coltranes' legacy.

The new Japanese restaurant O by Kissaki scores big with sublime food, inventive cocktails, and stunning decor.

Share the Harvest Farm goes online, Marilee's Farmstand announces C.S.A. program, and a harvest party at Wolffer.

The New York State Department of Education is seeking nominations for an award for exemplary high school seniors through Oct. 28. Twenty students, including 10 boys and 10 girls, will be New York's candidates in the Presidential Scholars Program, which was established in 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson.

Low-income and middle-income Suffolk County residents who need financial help paying for home heating bills or to repair or replace a home heating system, can apply for state aid through the Home Energy Assistance Program starting Friday.

Sixteen full-time health care workers at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital who had not received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine by Monday have been suspended without pay and will be fired if they don’t get vaccinated within 30 days, hospital officials said on Tuesday.

Sag Harbor Village Mayor James Larocca has a vision for the waterfront that includes expanding John Steinbeck Waterfront Park, creating an affordable housing district in the commercial core to the west of Main Street, and maintaining control of a municipal parking lot that Bay Street Theater hopes to use for a new theater.

Jack Graves usually sits down to write his East Hampton Star column, “Point of View,” each Wednesday without a predetermined subject in mind.

The Bay Area Lyme Disease Foundation has honored George Dempsey, the medical director of East Hampton Family Medicine, for his work in assisting with the foundation’s Lyme Disease Biobank.

Flood insurance rates are about to rise for many policyholders — in some cases, dramatically — while falling for others, when the Federal Emergency Management Agency's new system for setting premiums takes effect tomorrow.

Residents of Montauk spoke enthusiastically last Thursday as the East Hampton Town Board held a public hearing on acquiring the Dutch colonial manor house that once belonged to Carl Fisher, who purchased 10,000 acres in the hamlet in 1925 with the intention of making Montauk the "Miami Beach of the north."