A car with a baby on board crashed into the Surf Lodge in Montauk on Sunday morning, and the driver, the child’s father, took off with her in her car seat without reporting the accident. East Hampton Town police found them later at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Anthony Palumbo, a Republican New York State assemblyman who has served the North Fork for the last seven years, called his bid for the State Senate “a natural progression.”

The Amagansett School is building its 2020-2021 budget around the possibility that 30 new students will arrive — 15 in the school itself and 15 older children in the East Hampton School District — once the Gansett Meadow affordable housing complex just down the road is completed.     

The South Fork Natural History Museum in Bridgehampton will introduce children to some of their interesting insect neighbors during an arts and crafts program on Sunday at 10:30 a.m.

When Douglas Moore arrived at his South Endicott Place house on Jan. 31, after being away for about a month, he found a pickup truck in the driveway and that his bed had been slept in.

Albany should have included a funding mechanism to ease the burden on local jurisdictions as they figure out how to cope with the increased paperwork. This is an issue that can be solved.

Volunteering is its own reward — and keeps you healthy and active, too. Finding new ways to connect people to projects would benefit everyone.

I am an old enough fogey that I can remember the days when The Star was printed on an old flatbed press on the ground floor of the office building. Everyone on the staff had to physically drag the 1,700-pound rolls of newsprint out of storage in the family barn, from up the lane behind the office. How archaic those rolls seem today — positively Victorian. But I was there to see it.

Ken Brown stopped by the office on Monday with an old snapshot that he thought we would like a look at. During the winter of 1966 it was so cold that the edge of the ocean froze. Ken had been going through some old things and found the photograph, taken at East Hampton Main Beach toward low tide late in the day.

I’ve been asked what I would like our daughter to cook for me on the occasion of my fast-approaching birthday, and whether it’s cailles en sarcophage or mac and cheese, it will be wonderful, given the company we’ll keep.

“It was 50 years ago today,” I thought as I entered the theater this past August to catch the 1969 period film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” looking for a reminder of a divine encounter one summer day in Los Angeles.

Because of a lackluster year in the real estate market, 2019 revenues for the Peconic Bay Region Community Preservation Fund hit their lowest level since 2012, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. announced on Friday.

Wolffer Estate has put the lease to its restaurant Wolffer Kitchen Sag Harbor at 29 Main Street on the market for $500,000.

The prices listed here have been calculated from the county transfer tax. Unless otherwise noted, the parcels contain structures.

The Town of East Hampton is among the municipalities the Sierra Club and Citizens Campaign for the Environment have recognized for sustainability efforts, Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc said on Tuesday. 

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A Southampton woman managed to drive away after allegedly causing a three-car accident in the parking lot of the Springs Presbyterian Church on Jan. 26, even though a witness reached inside her car and took the keys out of the ignition.

East Hampton’s Little League organization is to benefit from several upcoming free clinics here.

Matej Zlatkovic, a pro at the East Hampton Indoor Tennis Club, has begun overseeing pickleball games on one of the club’s indoor Har-Tru courts, a first here.

Craig Brierley, the Bonac boys swimming coach, said last week’s league meet “had the makings for us to accomplish something extraordinary . . . for the second consecutive season we were the league champion.”