Democrats in East Hampton Town bucked the wider trend on Long Island and beyond on Election Day, maintaining a lock on elected offices by winning large majorities in an election marked by light turnout.

Democrats in East Hampton Town bucked the wider trend on Long Island and beyond on Election Day, maintaining a lock on elected offices by winning large majorities in an election marked by light turnout.

The rate of Covid-19 infection has slowly declined at testing sites in East Hampton Town in recent weeks, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said on Tuesday.

The positive infection rate among those tested between Oct. 16 and Oct. 23 was 5.88 percent, Mr. Van Scoyoc said. The rate between Oct. 24 and Oct. 30 was 4.94 percent, and between Nov. 1 and Nov. 7 it was 3.85 percent.

Consultants to East Hampton Town have proposed a two-phase plan for implementation of the recommendations contained in the Wainscott hamlet study that was approved and adopted in East Hampton Town’s comprehensive plan in May 2020.

Lacking a valid driver’s license, car registration, inspection sticker, or insurance card can get a driver into trouble, as evidenced by two arrests in Sag Harbor this week.

Dirt bikers have been illegally building a track, jumps, and wooden platforms off an established nature trail at the Soak Hides Dreen, according to a Rivers Road resident who called police on Oct. 25. The bikers are usually there around 3 p.m., the resident said. Officers were given photos as evidence.

East Hampton High’s golf and boys cross-country teams may have been runners-up last week in county competition, but each will send at least one athlete to state meets.

The East Hampton High School boys volleyball team may have lost last Thursday to Eastport-South Manor, but the Bonackers’ first-round win over East Islip here on Nov. 2 is well worth reporting.

The Islanders clinched the title in four sets, earning the right to play today for a regional championship at Longwood High School in Middle Island.

After a few weeks of incessant gusty winds, the weather gods who rule from the clouds high above finally provided anglers with a much-welcomed reprieve for several extended days of very fishable conditions, a rare occurrence by November marine weather standards.

Cami Hatch, a junior who anchors East Hampton High’s girls swimming team, qualified for the state meet in two events, the 100-yard backstroke and the 100 freestyle, at last weekend’s Suffolk County meet at Stony Brook University.

Moving beyond the endless talk of how hard it is to find a place to live here on an ordinary income, the East Hampton schools aim to do something about it.

Back-of-the-ballot measures asking for a “yes” or “no” after a block of intentionally confounding text were never a good way for government to function.

From June to mid-October on the South Fork.

Doing the storms, the worst rot I found was on windows less than 20 years old made of junk wood and not intended to last.

In the mid-1970s, Promised Land was like the wilderness of the Bible.

There’s more going on than you’d think at Sunken Meadow come state qualifier time.

I quit Facebook years ago, convinced that, despite the happy patina, it was by and large a medium for meanness, for back-stabbing, name-calling, ganging-up, and worse.

So what did Joseph DiSunno do about having no oil in his truck as the Germans closed in?

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