In memory of Edie Windsor, the well-known advocate for same-sex marriage who died in 2017 at the age of 88, Southampton Town has launched the Edith Windsor Heart Project to build a heart-shaped pavilion at Town Hall to be used for performing civil marriage ceremonies.

From EAST magazine: An Excerpt From Amanda M. Fairbanks’s "The Lost Boys of Montauk: The True Story of the Wind Blown and the Four Men Who Vanished at Sea and the Survivors They Left Behind."

What makes Erika Hecht’s “Don't Ask My Name” different from its many companions among Holocaust survival memoirs is the dynamic between the author and her mother, and the account of the mother’s ruthless determination to save her family.

The Wine Stand returns with music, food, and rose in Sagg, breakfast and brunch options, supper in East Hampton, and chocolate whiskey for dessert

Kids ages 12 to 17 who opt to get fully vaccinated for Covid-19 will be entered into a random drawing to win a full college scholarship, including room and board costs, to a SUNY or CUNY institution, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has announced.

Blooms of cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, have been detected in Wainscott Pond and in Lake Agawam in Southampton, according to analysis by Stony Brook University. Suffolk County health officials have asked residents not to use, swim, or wade in the water bodies and to keep children and pets away from the area.

The Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court has ruled that the Department of Environmental Conservation overstepped its authority in granting more width and more depth for the Sand Land mine in Noyac.

Cove Hollow is no more a "tavern" than Cafe Max was a place to sip cappuccino and nibble a croissant. What it is is a serious restaurant with seriously good food. 

Starting on Friday, East Hampton Village will provide a free morning and afternoon shuttle between the longterm and Reutershan parking lots for those who work in the commercial district. The shuttle, which will operate daily, will take a direct route through Herrick Park.

This image shows Lawrence Smith and Leander Arnold constructing the base of the veterans monument next to Ashawagh Hall in Springs. The monument was officially dedicated on Memorial Day weekend in May 1989.   

Brayan Rivera, an East Hampton freshman, broke the freshman 1,600 record that Erik Engstrom had held, while Penelope Greene, a Pierson senior who runs in the spring with Bonac's girls track team, set an East Hampton High School record in the 1,500 meters.

Hamptons Adult Hardball, the brainchild of Jim Kinnier of Noyac and Peter Barylski of Water Mill, will play its inaugural game Sunday at Sag Harbor's Mashashimuet Park at 10 a.m. 

The South Fork Islanders boys lacrosse team was in playoff contention going into this week at 6-3, with East Hampton's Charlie Corwin the chief scorer on Sunday.

Saturday's East Hampton High School baseball game here over Half Hollow Hills West had just about everything, from plays at the plate to a dazzling outfield catch to a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by an eighth grader, Carter Dickinson.

Two East Hampton High teams played at home Monday, and both won, girls lacrosse over Brentwood boys and tennis over Westhampton Beach.

When William J. Davis was a student at DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx in the 1940s, his shop teacher "suggested to him early on that, as he was not that good with his hands, he had better study hard and learn something else," his wife, Georgia Hinde, recalled. "He did just that, and he did it very well." It was a story that Mr. Davis, who would go on to become a New York State Supreme Court justice, told often.

Irwin Sarason, an art director who left the advertising world in 1980 to devote himself to his properties on the East End, died of lung cancer on Feb. 10 at home in Bridgehampton. He was 85.

Scott Leslie Wilson of Wainscott, the owner of a landscaping company, died of complications of leukemia on May 18 at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. He was 64 and had been ill for more than three years.

Pat Lillis, who devoted her life to rescuing and caring for every kind of animal, died at home in East Hampton on April 23, having had cancer for several years. She was 70.

The American College of Surgeons certified that Stony Brook Southampton has the right equipment, resuscitative capabilities, blood bank protocols, and surgeons and emergency physicians who are trained in advanced life support and who commit to responding to severe cases within 30 minutes of a patient's arrival.