As New York State and Suffolk County continue trying to contain the spread of Covid-19, an up-and-down pattern in the detection of new cases has emerged. Suffolk saw 1,039 new cases confirmed in a single day by Friday afternoon.

The Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons will hold a pet food drive on Saturday from noon to 3 p.m. at its adoption center at 124 Daniel's Hole Road in East Hampton.

Bruce Howard, a familiar face around the Montauk Post Office for 38 years, retired last month, fully intending to move on March 31 to a little cottage in a medieval walled town called Guerande, on a sea-salt farm in Brittany, France, where he plans to keep bees and make honey. 

The world’s top-ranked female triathlete, Katie Zaferes, an Olympic silver-medalist cyclist, Mari Holden, and Ally Friedman, a Ross School senior who in February was cited by the United States Tennis Association as its junior volunteer of the year, mentored Theresa Roden’s I-Tri girls on Saturday.

Taking note of a proliferation of seaplanes amid the swarm of aircraft flying over East Hampton in a typical summer, the town board is discussing prohibiting seaplanes within 1,500 feet of any town shoreline.

An aggregation of purchasing power allows the negotiating of lower electricity rates and enables a town or towns to derive electricity from renewable sources. 

The East Hampton Library’s Long Island Collection holds two large oral history collections. The Maritime Folklife collection includes over 100 interviews with fishermen and their families from the 1980s.

Retail food stores will be allowed to provide seating for up to 16 people, under a law passed on Friday by the East Hampton Village Board at a meeting held via teleconference. 

Arthur Graham, an East Hampton Village trustee and a candidate for mayor in the June 16 election, and David Driscoll, his running mate on the Fish Hooks Party ticket who is vying for one of two open board seats, talked in an interview on Sunday about how they would govern, and what it will take for the village to rebound from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Police said a woman entered a garage bay at Oscar’s Rock and Dirt on Hildreth Place in East Hampton and removed a 2009 Yamaha PW80 209 dirt bike valued at over $1,000.

Two teenagers were reported to be doing pull-ups on monkey bars in Mashashimuet Park on April 15, and a caller reported it as a violation of social distancing. The teenagers were gone when police arrived.

Rick Anthony Del Mastro, an executive in the out-of-home advertising industry who was a dedicated family man, civic leader, and philanthropist, died on April 15. A resident of Wainscott, he was 75 and had complications from Covid-19.

James E. Potter of East Hampton, an executive with the InterContinental Hotels Group for 32 years, died of heart failure at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on April 14. He was 86.

The recently passed federal CARES Act allows mortgage holders to delay payments on federally backed mortgages for up to 180 days, but it doesn't cover those whose mortgages are not federally owned or backed.

The restaurants and taverns that host their performances have been shuttered for more than a month, but technology is providing South Fork musicians with multiple avenues to be heard and seen, make money, and do good.

His images of the deaths of thousands of elephants and other wildlife Kenya became the basis for the 1965 book "The End of the Game," which influenced a generation of artists and wildlife conservationists.

New virtual offerings from Canio's Books in Sag Harbor, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, the Neo-Political Cowgirls, and Our Fabulous Variety Show

Couples all over have been left scrambling, deciding either to call off or reschedule their weddings as pandemic-related closures persist.

Covid-19 has cast a long shadow over the health care industry, and there’s a sense of trepidation and anxiety among the 65 practical nurses who are graduating Thursday from their Eastern Suffolk Board of Cooperative Educational Services program. But there’s also a sense of hope and purpose among the graduates.

While it is one of the most areas most heavily affected by Covid-19 in the country, the county falls below the eligibility threshold for aid. The County Executive has asked the treasury secretary to reconsider Suffolk's eligibility.