New from local authors: Former ad man Lyle Greenfield brings art world psychological suspense, 1980s-style, and Kay Tobler Liss takes on Montauk in the off-season, where a Native American woman fends off a land grab.

The Covid-19 pandemic has cast a shadow over the holiday season for many families. The good news is that Toys for Tots, now in its 35th year, is stepping in to fill gaps and provide gifts for children whose families need help.

The Amagansett School District has opted into a Suffolk County program intended to boost safety for students riding buses to and from school.

At the Springs School, the PTA is hosting a Sunday, Dec. 20, fund-raiser in which families and businesses are being asked to set up holiday decorations in the parking lot.

A new sod athletic field is about to be installed at the Springs School as part of the school's ongoing construction and renovation project, but the district has a message for its families and community: please stay off the sod.

Elizabeth Whelan Kotz, who on Tuesday became the first woman to be elected a commissioner in the Bridgehampton Fire District, said she hopes she is "the first of many to come."

Police are blaming shotgun rounds for broken back windows at a Shore Road residence on Friday afternoon. The homeowner noted increased hunting and clay pigeon shooting in the area. Damage was estimated at $4,500.

Two drivers in East Hampton and one in Sag Harbor were charged last week with aggravated unlicensed driving after police stopped them for alleged traffic infractions.

A single motorist was charged with drunken driving in East Hampton Town last week.

Deer in the headlights caused a few collisions last week, but no drivers were hurt.

St. Therese of Lisieux's new pastor, who joined the church in September in the midst of the pandemic, said he is "trying to use the theme of coming home for Christmas" to make people feel welcome at the church. Accordingly, it was his task to get to the bottom of what home meant for Montauk.

Events, programs, and online activities for children and families on the South Fork.

The East Hampton Town Board has named the Wainscott Green — the newly created passive park on Montauk Highway, on property bought by the town in 2018 — after the late Rick Del Mastro, a civic activist and philanthropist who called Wainscott home.

Thursday is the first night of Hanukkah, the Jewish holiday that commemorates the Maccabees' triumph over their oppressors in the second century B.C., only to find that the oil to light the candles needed to rededicate the temple had been tainted. Just one night's worth of pure oil remained, but, miraculously, it lasted for eight nights.

The creation of a geographic entity — a village in this case — out of opposition to offshore wind power would seem the stuff of some far fringe of society. Only it isn’t.

No one wants their loved ones to die of Covid-19 in a hospital hallway. But many places in the United States are at that point right now, or near to it, as virus cases soar.

A revealing trip through an old Dominy weather diary.

We, the Rattray family, have a tendency to get lost in time, to misplace ourselves in its flow.

A brief snowfall triggers memories of Vermont and an uncle’s life there as a potter.

Presumably I have returned to work now, and am thus to some extent re-engaged in East Hampton’s life, and am feeling once again at least somewhat useful.