The Sag Harbor School Board on Jan. 13 declined to take a formal stance on proposed state legislation that would mandate the human papillomavirus vaccine for students — but not without a discussion of whether or not it is even in the board’s purview to take on such matters.     

In the second installment of a three-part series, Shelley Gilbert, speaks out about her son's increasingly difficult behavior.

“There is only one race, and that race is the human race,” Georgette Grier-Key said during celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life at Calvary Baptist Church in East Hampton on Monday.     

The Sag Harbor Elementary School PTA, along with Gary Osborne, an art teacher, and Traci Robinson, a parent, will host a talk Thursday at 7 at the school about the Wait Until 8th movement in schools.

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli has announced that the cap on tax levy increases for the 2020-21 budget cycle is 1.81 percent, down from 2 percent in the last two years.     

Montauk business owners and local musicians told the East Hampton Town Board last Thursday that proposed code changes covering music entertainment permits are far less objectionable than those debated at a contentious public hearing 10 months ago, but that some unreasonable provisions still remain.     

Amagansett’s town-owned parking lot north of Main Street in the hamlet’s commercial core could be expanded and reconfigured in time for Memorial Day weekend, the East Hampton Town Board was told on Tuesday, though one board member suggested that such a timeline might be unrealistic.     

Richard Lawler, the deputy mayor of East Hampton Village, was promoted to mayor by his fellow trustees at a board meeting on Friday. He will fill out the final six months of the term of Paul F. Rickenbach Jr., who resigned from office Dec. 31.     

Lea Bryant, a health teacher at the East Hampton Middle School, has been named Suffolk County health teacher of the year by the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance.

Elements of a stump speech were peppered throughout Suffolk County Legislator Bridget Fleming’s remarks to a gathering of Democratic voters in Springs on Friday.     

Lena Tabori was named the new chairwoman of East Hampton Town’s Energy Sustainability and Resiliency Committee on Jan. 15, four weeks after Linda James resigned from the position.

A proposal from PSEG Long Island, the electric utility, to install a single supersize pole on Cooper Lane that would allow for fewer transmission lines and less obtrusive poles on nearby McGuirk and King Streets, was the subject of a heated public hearing at an ad hoc meeting of the village board on Tuesday evening.     

Valerie Cartright, a Democrat and Brookhaven Town councilwoman, is the fourth candidate to enter the race for the New York State Senate seat now held by Senator Kenneth P. LaValle.     

Representative Lee Zeldin of New York’s First Congressional District, which covers the South Fork, was appointed to President Trump’s impeachment defense team on Monday.     

Genevieve Frances Keyser of East Hampton, who had a long career as the head of communications for Winthrop Hospital in Mineola, died of heart disease on Monday. She was 88 and had been ill for about a year and a half.     

William Somerville, a former resident of Montauk, died of heart failure on Jan. 7 in Southampton at the age of 59.   

Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor is offering a number of new performance workshops for kids and teens starting in the next few weeks.

About $5,000 worth of tools were stolen Friday night or early Saturday from a work van parked in a driveway on Brick Kiln Road in Noyac.

At about 6:55 a.m. on New Year’s Day, in their first arrest of 2020, East Hampton Town police charged a 24-year-old man with assault and menacing, saying he had punched another man in the face multiple times and pointed a kitchen knife at him during a fight at their Indian Hill Road, East Hampton, residence.     

A group of parents of Sagaponack School students spent the last several years lobbying the school board to add Bridgehampton as a choice for children in prekindergarten and in fourth grade and up. Their campaign has yielded the outcome they had hoped for.