The hows and whys of New York’s new driver’s licenses for all program will be explained at a panel discussion this evening at 6 at the East Hampton Library.

A construction worker who was shingling a new modular home in Montauk fell from scaffolding at least two stories high on Friday afternoon and died of his injuries.

Some parents might have walked away after their child committed murder, too horrified to cope. Shelley Gilbert did the opposite. After her son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., shot and killed his 70-year-old father on Jan. 4, 2015, she paid for his defense attorneys, expert witnesses, and psychiatric examinations. “What he did was not him, it was his disease," she said. (Third in a Series)

The cash flowed for Jerry Larsen in 2019. The Newtown Party, which Mr. Larsen set up as the fund-raising arm of his bid for East Hampton Village mayor, took in just over $43,000 last year, according to his filings with the New York State Board of Elections.

Occupancy of a 12-unit condominium development on Accabonac Road in East Hampton, the first of its kind in the town’s affordable housing program, has been delayed due to the detection of elevated levels of several solvents in the units’ basements.

The Wait Until 8th effort is banking on parents signing on and spreading the word. “By banding together, this will decrease the pressure felt by kids and parents alike over the kids having a smartphone,” it says.

A challenge to a 2016 State Supreme Court decision involving the ownership of a stretch of Napeague oceanfront known as Truck Beach will be heard on Feb. 7 in the Appellate Division’s Second Judicial Department in Brooklyn.

In an effort to have the State Department of Transportation prioritize the repair of Route 114, Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele Jr. said last week that he would designate money for it in the upcoming state budget.

A cooperative listening project will help the development of processes and procedures to protect right whales during the survey, construction, and operation phases of several wind farms,

Oysters were on the agenda when the East Hampton Town Trustees met Monday, a meeting that saw a new member of the board who is an oyster farmer speaking both as a trustee and as a resident of the community.

Fred W. Thiele Jr. is the first state legislator to make an endorsement in the race for the Democratic Party’s nomination to unseat Lee Zeldin, the three-term Republican.

The companies planning the South Fork Wind Farm have asked permission to survey a proposed cable route from Wainscott to a Long Island Power Authority substation in East Hampton.

First responders were recognized Tuesday evening for saving the life of a man who had fallen from his bicycle in Montauk in September and was in cardiac arrest.

From curious third graders taking their first steps into science to seasoned seventh and eighth graders winning ribbons with sophisticated experiments, the Montauk School’s annual science fair on Friday was a journey into the minds of children.

Monday through Friday, Feb. 7, has been designated the first Waste-Free Lunch Week at the East Hampton Middle School. Students in the school’s Surfrider chapter and student government club are encouraging their peers to trade single-use plastics and packaging for reusable versions when they take their lunches to school.

The Hampton Music Educators Association’s annual high school music concert will be held Saturday night, bringing together hundreds of talented students at the Eastport-South Manor High School. More information is online at hamptonmea.org.

Project Most, the nonprofit that has partnered with the East Hampton Neighborhood House to expand its after-school activities for children, will have open house hours at the Neighborhood House today and Sunday to familiarize parents and kids with its programs.

It’s been two years since the Bridgehampton School established a career and technical diploma track in agriculture, and students in the program now hope to hatch a new animal science program to go along with it.

With a plan they have dubbed “the Hen Hive,” the students want to build a coop and raise chickens.

A first draft of the Bridgehampton School District’s proposed 2020-21 budget is about $700,000 over what New York State’s cap on tax levy increases would allow, according to information released during a Jan. 22 school board meeting.

Katy Graves, whose last official day as the Sag Harbor School District superintendent was Jan. 6, has been named as the new executive director of the Eleanor Whitmore Early Childhood Center in East Hampton.