A federal Army Corps of Engineers official did not address why dredges and crews were being redirected from the Fire Island to Moriches Inlet Stabilization Project to a nonemergency project less than one mile from President Trump’s resort in Florida in response to an inquiry by The Star this week, saying only that the project would nonetheless be completed by the June 19 contracted completion deadline.     

Retail food stores in East Hampton Village's business district could be allowed to provide seating for up to 16 customers, part of a new push by the village to reconsider some code restrictions on businesses.  

The resignation of Caroline Baumann as director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has local ties to another institution with its roots in design.     

Educators, parents, students, employers, and community members have been invited to a series of regional meetings hosted by the New York State Board of Regents, which oversees public education, as part of the board’s new review of high school graduation requirements.  

“It’s important, because black people don’t see black people in books,” said Carol Spencer, the owner of a traveling bookstore, “and in the history books they are always slaves.”     

Continuing his effort to relocate an Amagansett house designed by the late architect Francis Fleetwood from its present location to another parcel nearby, Michael Novogratz, the billionaire investor whose properties are the subject of two stop-work orders, has sued the Town of East Hampton.

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Today, the place where Peter may have farmed and lived, more than 70 years before George Washington was born, is hidden behind privet hedges where Ocean Road jogs left toward the ocean beach.

The controversy over the proper name of one of the Town of East Hampton’s hamlets flared anew last Thursday and again this week, after signs bearing the message “Welcome to The Springs” were removed from Three Mile Harbor Road and Springs-Fireplace Road.

In its ongoing effort to remediate the degraded condition of Georgica Pond, which has experienced toxic algal blooms every summer since 2012, a group of pondfront property owners sought and received permission from the East Hampton Town Trustees to take part in a sediment chronology study.     

For those eager to go deeper into family histories, the Suffolk County Historical Museum in Riverhead will host a program on African-American genealogy on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Arrests were down in 2019, according to the East Hampton Town Police Department’s annual report, released on Monday. Over all, arrests were down sharply, to 607, from 809 in 2018, though calls for service were up slightly — 18,680 versus 18,079 the year before.     

East Hampton School District administrators and board members continued poring over their proposed 2020-21 spending plan on Tuesday, deciding to add some new, one-time expenses for the middle school.     

Oliver Longwell and Anne Argento of Santa Monica, Calif., were married on Dec. 26 at a small gathering of family and friends at the bride’s childhood home in Pasadena, Calif.

The Government Finance Officers Association, which represents public finance officials in the United States and Canada, has awarded the Town of East Hampton a certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting for its fiscal year 2018 comprehensive annual financial report.     

Thomas W. Horn Sr., one of the most familiar faces on Sag Harbor Main Street, where he dutifully sat in front of the firehouse selling raffle tickets and paraphernalia to benefit the village’s Fire Museum on summer evenings, died on Tuesday evening at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital.

Visiting hours for Scott R. Bennett of Amagansett, a longtime member of the hamlet’s Fire Department, a former East Hampton Town trustee, and a bayman who died on Tuesday, will be held on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Yardley and Pino Funeral Home in East Hampton. A graveside service will follow at Cedar Lawn Cemetery here, and from 2 to 6 p.m.

Eugene L. Wishod, a lawyer who represented Robert David Lion Gardiner in his lengthy legal battle with relatives to regain access to Gardiner’s Island, died on Feb. 14 at home in Ridgefield, Conn.

Edith Frischmann Storm, a former Amagansett resident and administrative secretary at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor, died on Feb. 13 at Fernandina Beach Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Fernandina Beach, Fla.    

George Walker Stewart of East Hampton, a graphic designer who had a passion for art, theater, and opera, died at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital on Saturday.