The Democratic establishment victory in the election that ended Tuesday was the expected outcome, but while the winners savor the moment, they must also realize that it is well past time to get moving in a number of areas.

The Bridgehampton citizens group has dissolved and come back as an independent community watchdog. This is probably how it should have been all along.

We in the news business have to be sure to walk the information over to where readers are, and not expect all of them to come to us.

I myself don’t believe in specters, but this is a true story.

All legislation held hostage? There’s gotta be another way.

“What difference does it make, really, when we’re floating around in space in a hostile universe?”

Over the course of 15 years running a registered charter fishing boat and taking people out to Montauk Point, I have issued five official mayday distress calls and sunk two boats — with customers on them.

Max Bonbrest, an East Hampton native, pledges her women’s clothing store, AYR, will join the ranks of permanent, all-year-round businesses in East Hampton Village. In fact, that’s what “AYR” stands for.

Real estate transfers from June to October, Amagansett to Southampton Village.

125 Years Ago 1896

This week's raft of reader comment.

Voters across Suffolk County flunked three of the five statewide propositions on Tuesday's ballot. The only successful measure that will impact the East End was an amendment to the state constitution to establish the "right to clean air, clean water, and a healthful environment for all."

Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming, an incumbent candidate, was one of only a few Democrats re-elected to their posts on Tuesday as Republicans earned victories in key races in county government.

Nia Dawson, 22, Black, and a third-generation Bridgehampton native, found herself in the midst of what she believed was a racially-fueled incident outside the Sag Harbor Launderette in August. Angered, upset, but not shocked, it led her to galvanize family members, friends, and notable figures in the community to form an organization called Exposing Inequities in the Hamptons.

Is there life after East Hampton? The answer is a slightly bittersweet "yes," according to several longtime residents -- and very active community members -- who have moved away over the last couple of months.

With a new effort to operate year round, a recently launched virtual store, and a decision to provide housing for some of its employees, Share the Harvest Farm is hoping to make a greater connection with the community it serves.

A postcard from the Harvey Ginsberg Postcard Collection shows the house known as "the Chalet" off James Lane in East Hampton.

Jimmy O'Mara of Amagansett died of pancreatic cancer at home last Thursday with his daughter by his side. He was 83.

Minna Kotkin, a lawyer and professor of law who lived in Brooklyn and on Red Dirt Road in Springs, died on Sept. 30.

A Sag Harbor resident reported seeing a female hunter perched on a stand at a Suffolk Street Extension house, taking aim at deer in the cemetery.