Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming, Perry Gershon, and Nancy Goroff all see a tight race with one or two of their competitors. The winner Tuesday will challenge Representative Lee Zeldin to represent New York's First Congressional District.

When Long Island enters phase three of reopening, which is expected on Wednesday, East End spas will be back in business, and they’re prepared to offer treatments ranging from massages to colonics with new protocols designed to give clients peace of mind. 

Dark cuisine comes from "Chuuka Ichiban" or "China's Number One," a 1990s Japanese manga by Etsushi Ogawa about a boy chef in 19th-century China who battles an underground crime syndicate called the Dark Cooking Society. The concept has occasionally veered into strange food combinations merely for shock value, but some are born of necessity and genuine creativity.

A caterer's food store comes to East Hampton, lots of outdoor dining options, what's going on in Southampton, and more.

"Art Apart," a roadside art exhibition open to all East Hampton residents, will populate the town's byways with a variety of artworks.

LongHouse opens for the seasons, many gallery openings, a McNally film, and more

New Yorkers have already been voting in 2020 primaries for a range of local and statewide races. Early in-person polling places, which opened on Saturday, will remain open until Sunday afternoon and then reopen on Tuesday, the actual day of the primary.

No sooner were New York restaurants granted a reprieve from the Covid-19 lockdown did patrons come back in swarms for outdoor dining. But for many on the East End who had become used to hunkering down and ordering takeout, if at all, the return of crowds was an unsettling shock.

As such things go, early on during the pandemic I passed on a piece of good advice I had heard — about learning a new skill during the lockdown — then did not really heed that thought myself.

In the three months since we started home schooling our children, the global pandemic has made me feel like a 1950s housewife, sequestered at home with her colicky newborn, while also being a failing schoolteacher and homesteader.

“It gets easier,” someone said recently in referring to long marriages and looking my way for confirmation.

The Bridgehampton racetrack was brought back to life Saturday for a simulated racing competition watchable on YouTube.

How can I ever thank you? You have been there from the beginning, in the soaring chorus of “Good Day Sunshine” through the car’s tinny radio so many summers ago, and even now you are here, the infectious — in the best way — “Home Tonight.”

The Independent and Dan’s Papers merge, as do the real estate firms Halstead and Brown Harris Stevens.

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Avenues: the World School, a for-profit independent school, has secured a location in East Hampton to expand its New York City curriculum here for the new school year beginning in September.

Two more events this week will continue discussions of the civil rights narrative on the East End, a Juneteenth celebration in Southampton and a Black Lives Matter protest in Montauk.

School budgets for the 2020-21 school year passed with overwhelming support in East Hampton, Springs, Montauk, Amagansett, Bridgehampton, Sag Harbor, Sagaponack, and Wainscott on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, Skarstedt Gallery will launch an East Hampton branch of its New York and London operations at a 1,500-square-foot space in the same cluster of storefronts once occupied by the Drawing Room at 66 Newtown Lane.