Local synagogues continue their High Holy Days observances beginning Wednesday with services for Yom Kippur, the day of atonement, when, as the Jewish Center of the Hamptons says on its website, “we gather for a solemn and sacred service that calls us to reflect and repent.”

After five businesses initially expressed interest in bidding on a new five-year lease for East Hampton Village’s Main Beach concession, only two bids were received by the deadline on Tuesday.

This still image from an LTV archive video shows Hugh King, director of the Home, Sweet Home Museum, at the 2003 dedication of the John Howard Payne bust upon its installation there.

A woman was stuck on a Hampton Street, Sag Harbor, roof, a caller told police on Sept. 16. An officer arrived to see her “clinging to the ridge of the roof” after finding herself locked out.

Coming up: Big Truck Day at the Children's Museum of the East End and a plethora of offerings at the East Hampton Library for kids and teens.

An East Hampton man was charged with a felony early Sunday morning after allegedly throwing a flower pot at the head of another man at Pepperoni’s Pizza in East Hampton.

Fire marshals have deemed the CMG Auto Repairs building on Springs-Fireplace Road in East Hampton unsafe for occupation following a fire there a week ago.

Friday is homecoming at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, and students will be celebrating all day long.

A Ford pickup truck struck an Amazon delivery van at the intersection of Montauk Highway and Cranberry Hole Road in Amagansett on Sept. 17, injuring both drivers.

Mark Forrester, a salesman at Village Hardware in East Hampton, offers expert grill repairs through his Hamptons Grill Doctor service.

Elaine Jones, an outspoken observer of local politics who, when neither of the town’s major parties met her expectations, founded and led her own, died at her family house in Amagansett on Sept. 18. She was 82.

Neil Kraft, the creative director behind groundbreaking campaigns at Calvin Klein, Esprit de Corps, and Barneys New York, died at home in East Hampton on Sept. 6. He was 68.

A memorial service for Phyllis Kriegel will be held on Tuesday at 4 p.m. at Ashawagh Hall in Springs.

Marilyn Fitterman, a former president of the New York State branch of the National Organization for Women who lived part time in East Hampton, died on Tuesday at her second home in Florida.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that staying healthy means listening to the advice of the president and R.F.K. Jr. and then doing exactly the opposite.

Here are some suggestions for what you might drop off at a food pantry collection point this fall.

There is a saying among sailors that there is no shame in running aground because it happens to every one of us eventually.

I’m childishly optimistic that this will be the year that Halloween trick-or-treaters return to my front door.

Remembering Peter Walsh and Coogan’s, his storied Washington Heights bar, at the resurrected Potato Hampton 5K in Bridgehampton.

Afflicted by tennis elbow, tennis shoulder, and tennis groin, I didn't know from physical therapy. I always hated gyms and their scary steel machines. Not anymore.