In a move that could set a precedent allowing the owners of condominiums to expand their units, and over the objection of East Hampton Town Supervisor Peter Van Scoyoc, Suffolk County has paved the way for a unit at the Montauk Shores condominium complex to be replaced with a larger one.

If she is elected to the East Hampton Town Board, Elizabeth Bambrick said last week, it will be “because people want me to change things.”

October often means pumpkin spice lattes, Halloween costumes, and baseball playoffs, but for high school seniors navigating the college admissions process, this month isn’t all fun and games.

Between filling out applications, answering multiple essay questions, building their résumés, taking tests, and just being normal kids, college application season is tough for many.

"Be as vocal as possible in asking for help,” said Anabel Graff, a college essay coach.

A woman was arrested in Montauk Sunday evening after she punctured a tire on her husband’s vehicle and pushed another woman, East Hampton Town police said.

Suffolk County’s still-pure water sources are irreplaceable resources that must be preserved and protected, State Assemblyman Steve Englebright told a gathering in Amagansett on Oct. 4.

On Sunday at about 9:40 a.m., an 87-year-old man was taken to the hospital after a two-car accident by St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton Village.

The East Hampton School Board on Tuesday began prioritizing capital projects the district will likely take on in the near future, identifying the high school’s artificial turf athletic field, auditorium, and commercial kitchen as possibilities.

The Springs School and the Springs General Store, as well as the West Lake Inn complex in Montauk and a modular floating structure intended to remove nitrogen and phosphorous in Montauk’s Fort Pond, should receive grant funding from the portion of the community preservation fund allocated to water quality improvement, the East Hampton Town Board was told on Tuesday.

It’s a toss-up who got more out of Kathleen Mulcahy’s visit to the Sag Harbor Elementary School fifth-grade science classes last week — the kids, or the Sag Harbor mayor herself.

A man was arrested on Friday for allegedly forcing a woman he had just met to perform a sex act on him.

East Hampton Village police made two drunken-driving arrests over the holiday weekend.

An Amagansett School Board member who won her seat in a write-in campaign during a hotly contested election in 2017 has resigned, and on Tuesday the school board appointed a new member to fill the empty seat.

Mark Smith was sitting in front of his restaurant, Coche Comedor on Montauk Highway, on Oct. 2 at about 1:35 a.m., when he saw a man steal a decorative rock in the driveway.

The East End Birth Network, a nonprofit that offers support and advocacy on pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and parenting, will hold a “homegrown family health fair” on Saturday at the Hayground School in Bridgehampton.

As Halloween approaches, the Amagansett Library is inviting kids to help decorate the library on Saturday from 1 to 3 p.m. and on Sunday from 1:30 to 3 p.m. High school students can earn community service hours for helping out.

A connection between the two points is among the goals outlined in the draft Montauk hamlet study. It is hoped that the 5,000-linear-foot multiuse path will encourage train travel to Montauk and a consequent reduction in vehicular traffic, particularly during the summer season.

Randy Johnston, a former professor of accounting at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who will speak at the East Hampton Library on three consecutive Saturdays starting this week, moved to East Hampton Village in April and has been trying to raise awareness about environmental issues ever since.

Jerry Larsen, the former East Hampton Village police chief who is running next June for village mayor, offered proposals for revitalizing the commercial district last Thursday, at a campaign event with business owners at Babette’s restaurant.

The owners of nearly six acres of reserved land in Amagansett who have been prevented from cutting down trees, preparing a farm, or doing any other work there since the Peconic Land Trust initiated a lawsuit against them in August, asked the court last week to dismiss the suit and filed counterclaims against the land trust.