“You hear them before you see them,” Nick Lombardo, a fifth-year lifeguard at Indian Wells Beach in Amagansett, said. A thundering rumble, a vibration in the chest; when the Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing's military aircraft fly by “the whole beach looks up.” But what are these immense machines, and what are they doing?

Darius Petty, who last year was accused of kidnapping and robbing three young men at gunpoint in the parking lot of the East Hampton Senior Center, and was sentenced in June to three years in prison, was released from custody in July for a monthlong “grace period” before his incarceration. On Tuesday, Suffolk Supreme Court Justice Timothy P. Mazzei agreed to extend the time for an additional month.

After leaving his house early Saturday, a Montauk man found a stranger asleep in his guest room when he returned late that afternoon. The intruder told police he was “unsure how, when, or why” he’d got there, adding that he’d been drinking the night before.

A 15-year-old bike rider was injured on Aug. 19 after colliding with a Chevrolet pickup truck by the side of Montauk Highway in East Hampton.

A Florida resident faces two felony drunken-driving charges after Sag Harbor Village police, responding to a welfare check, found him lying on a sidewalk early on the morning of Aug. 20.

A New York City man was charged with a felony on Saturday evening after Sag Harbor Village police stopped his 2025 Cadillac on a seatbelt violation.

Faithful followers of government and school board meetings on LTV’s government and education channel in East Hampton Town or fans of LTV’s public access shows like “Hello Hello,” “Two Jews Making Food,” or “Meet the Mayor” may have been bewildered this week to find the programming suddenly gone from Altice/Optimum’s Channels 20 and 22.

The East Hampton Town Trustees and Suffolk County have advised the public that a bloom of toxic cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, has been detected in Georgica Pond, posing a threat to public health.

On March 13, 1851, Henry Thomas Dering wrote from Connecticut to his older sister, Frances Mary Dering, in Sag Harbor, inquiring about someone named Hagar. But who was Hagar?

Kenneth Jacob, who had a career in the Air Force and later owned a television repair business in Montauk, died on Aug. 10. He was 91.

Frank Schwitter, an executive with the Arthur Andersen accounting firm and an Air Force veteran, died on Aug. 5 at the Bluff Road, Amagansett, house he owned for 50 years. He was 91.

Barrett Whitman, who as a Grumman engineer led structural analysis for the Apollo lunar module that landed on the moon in 1969, died on Nov. 15. A Montauk resident, he was 95.

Jane Stuart of Springs, who founded HomeWorkPeople, a New York City commercial and residential real estate firm, died on July 7 under hospice care in Westhampton. She was 77.

Two lifeguards, “Dr.” Sam John and Wilmot Baker, notched their 18th save at the Maidstone bathing beach a hundred years ago. Plus much more for you news junkies and history buffs.

We are nearing the peak of hurricane season, which usually arrives in the middle of September, and any that come close to our area in the next few weeks will no doubt affect those who wet a line.

The Hampton Classic Horse Show leaped into action at the Snake Hollow Road showgrounds in Bridgehampton Sunday with leadline classes for 2 through 7-year-olds judged by Joe Fargis, an Olympic gold medalist.

Cristian Candemir, a 30-year-old Montauker, will compete in the Strongman Corporation’s under-200-pound national amateur championships in Las Vegas on Sept. 12 and 13.

Liga de Gulag, riding high in the 7-on-7 men’s soccer league Tuesday evenings in Herrick Park, experienced its first loss of the season on Aug. 19. Plus a wood bat league update.

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Researchers have concluded that powerful hurricanes will continue to be more common. The western arc of the North Atlantic, in particular, is warming faster than many other places on the globe.