As Covid-19 continues to spread, first responders on the South Fork are continuing to work, albeit while taking extra precautions. 

East Hampton Town’s essential services are functioning, despite mandates to reduce staffing and implement the social distancing practices critical to controlling the now-explosive growth in COVID-19 infections in the tristate area. 

Arts organizations including the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Bay Street Theater, and the Parrish Art Museum have modified their educational programs for families and children to offer them digitally and free of charge. 

Rudolph Rando of Montauk, who was known as Rudy, died of sepsis on Sunday at San Simeon by the Sound in Greenport.

John Bice, who had spent a lot of time in East Hampton over the past 20 years, died at the Kanas Center for Hospice Care in Quiogue on March 11. He was 76 and had been ill with pneumonia.     

Eileen M. Carmona of Oak View Highway in East Hampton died at home on Monday.

In Noyac, a drunken driver struck multiple vehicles on a property on Highview Drive on March 18 and then tried to leave the scene, Southampton Town police said. 

Michael Lohan, the father of the actress Lindsay Lohan, was arrested on March 16 in connection with a Feb. 22 incident at the Amagansett I.G.A.

A woman stole a box of gloves from the East Hampton Urgent Care Center on March 15, according to a nurse who works there.

The Sag Harbor School District on Wednesday announced "more than one member of our school community" has been diagnosed with COVID-19, making it the second local school to confirm at least one case.

In a message posted online on Tuesday night, the department followed a recommendation from the White House Coronavirus Task Force in urging anyone who had been in the city recently to stay home and isolated for 14 days.

Confirmed cases of COVID-19 in Suffolk County rose to 1,880 on Tuesday, as the county executive reported more virus-related deaths for the sixth day in a row and officials scrambled to increase the number of hospital beds across the region.

The school, which has students in prekindergarten through 12th grade, including international boarding students, said it is not known how the faculty member contracted the illness. The test result came in late Monday night.

Many local fitness, dance, and yoga professionals are now offering online programs, from A&G Dance to the Y.M.C.A. to Yoga Shanti.

Many local fitness, dance, and yoga professionals are now offering online programs, from A&G Dance to the Y.M.C.A. to Yoga Shanti.

School districts and day care centers here are answering the governor’s call to help parents and caregivers who are first responders, health care workers, and other essential employees during the COVID-19 response.

Steve Bellone will offer an update on Suffolk's response at 6:30 p.m. as cases in the county rise to nearly 1,500.

Survey work for the proposed South Fork Wind Farm’s transmission cable route in Wainscott, which was to begin on Monday, has been put on hold because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Hampton Jitney paused its Jitney and Ambassador bus service between the South Fork and New York City effective Monday. 

As of Sunday evening, East Hampton Town had 10 confirmed cases of COVID-19, Southampton Town, 16, Shelter Island 2, and Southold Town 91. Officials plead with people to practice social distancing.