East Hampton Village will soon replace its old mobile police command unit — a retrofitted delivery truck — with a brand-new, more sophisticated one that will cost $695,000.

In two crashes on town roads this week, three people were injured. Two of them were taken by ambulance to Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

A 31-year-old Hampton Bays man is facing charges after alleged sexual abuse of a 14-year-old girl at the mobile home park on Oakview Highway in East Hampton.

A view from the ferry.

Trouble this year within the web of suppliers that bring goods from manufacturers to retailers has made holiday buying fraught.

In one of the more heavily debated purchases of its kind in recent years, East Hampton Town will soon close on the purchase of less than two wooded acres off Green Hollow and Buckskill Roads.

Eighty years ago this month, the mayor of the Village of East Hampton issued an urgent plea: An important piece of early American history was in danger of being lost.

Every morning is a double espresso kind of morning around this ranch — the Double-Bar-E Crazy Ranch on Edwards Lane.

Funny that it took my daughter heading up and over to college in western New York for me to at last appreciate the state I grew up in.

There were 18 here the other night, and now, as is the case most of the year, just the two of us and O’en.

Walking the dog was fine. Tennis was fine. Life was fine. Until Labor Day, when my knee blew up like a balloon. So what do you recommend, doc?

Once upon a time in The Star . . .

The latest in reader comment.

Bruce J. Hoek of Clearwater Beach, Springs, died on Friday after an illness. He was 73. Mr. Hoek was a Air Force veteran and a 20-year member of the Fire Department in White Plains, N.Y.

Kevin Francis Konzet, formerly of Springs, died of a heart attack on Nov. 25 at home in Cornelius, N.C. He was 68. The family will receive visitors on Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A funeral Mass will be said on Friday at 11 a.m. at Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church here, with burial to follow at the church cemetery on Cedar Street.

The Pushcart “Best of the Small Presses” anthology is back, offering a wide spectrum of voices and contributions that survey abuses specific to our moment.

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center announced this week it is seeking donations of shoeboxes filled with holiday gifts for girls and boys in the community.

For Jacqui Lofaro, the founder of Hamptons Doc Fest, her own experience making documentaries nurtured her passion for the form.

"Miracle on 34th Street" arrives at the Southampton Cultural Center as a live musical radio play.

Hamptons Doc Fest returns Friday with eight days of documentary screenings at two Sag Harbor venues.