Last week, the Cook Political Report announced that its rating of New York's First Congressional District — where Nancy Goroff, the Democratic Party nominee, is challenging Representative Lee Zeldin — had moved its rating for the district from "likely Republican" to "lean Republican." 

The Town of East Hampton appears to be following the lead of other municipalities on the South Fork in moving to enact restrictions on the use of gas or diesel-powered leaf blowers.

East Hampton can take a large step toward deriving its energy needs from renewable sources by joining 61 other municipalities in New York State with an active community choice aggregation program, speakers said during a webinar on the topic on Monday.

The yacht charter business was initially hit hard by the pandemic because of restrictions on international travel, then, after about six weeks of quarantining, clients started clamoring to get on the water. Now many mega yachts that might normally be chartered in places like the Mediterranean have instead been in the waters off Sag Harbor and North Haven this summer.

When the company declared its support for the Black Lives Matter movement on a chalkboard outside its tasting room and on its Instagram account in June, initial reactions were largely positive. But a delayed backlash in the form of a new Facebook group that emerged last week called Defund Montauk Brewing Company is dragging the small business onto the battlefield of a social media war of words.

Sarah Maslin Nir's "Horse Crazy" is not exclusively about horses at all, but a thoughtful memoir that blends rich reportage with intimate stories of combating loneliness and navigating grief. 

Poll workers are needed more than ever before as the threat of the pandemic looms over older populations afraid to work on Election Day because they may be at increased risk for Covid-19.

Many people know Norma Bushman, the new district clerk for the Wainscott School, from her 15 years at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter, where she was most recently as the aquatics director.

Liz Joyce, founder of the award-winning Goat on a Boat Puppet Theatre, is having a busy summer.

The Bridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center held its first in-person fund-raiser of the year on Saturday, with children and families turning out to help those who use the center's services.

A new local nonprofit is bringing together graphic designers, artists, and student activists to raise money for communities and groups affected by Covid-19.

Customers at bowling alleys and gyms will soon be rolling and lifting again now that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has deemed conditions in New York safe enough that places like these can reopen.

Thanks to Covid-19, the two teams competed online, instead of at East Hampton's Herrick Park, to see who could raise more money for local nonprofit organizations.

To take advantage of the extra cross-training opportunity that otherwise might not have worked with preseason scheduling, Kevin Barry entered a few athletes from his East Hampton High School boys cross-country team.

The impending merger of BNB Bank, the East End's last independent local bank, with Dime Community Bank of New York City will allow the institution to provide greater financial support to businesses while maintaining its connection to the region, Kevin O'Connor, the C.E.O. of BNB Bank, said in an interview last week.

Chances are, if you have enough sun in your backyard you are growing tomatoes this summer. If not, you have no doubt found a staggering array of them available at every farmer's market, farm stand, and even a few grocery stores.

A Greek treat, new dinner items on the Wolffer Kitchen menu, a catered dinner, and more

"I know it's weird to talk about a muse, but I'm absolutely convinced the muse is real," Anthony Brandt said on a recent summer afternoon, sitting on his backyard deck in Sag Harbor.

Lindsay Morris’s most recent project, “A Small Taste of Freedom,” which will open Friday at Guild Hall, focuses on the here and now and close to home.

At the moment, there appears to be just one local voice saying no to a proposed new hospital emergency annex on the site of two Little League fields centrally located off Pantigo Place in East Hampton.